A Day of Walking and Exploring: Lighthouse Bluff & Mawsons Bay
Today I needed time on my ownsome. After a morning paddle - the surf is flat now - I headed up to the lighthouse, about twenty minutes from Green Point.
The landscape was really varied which is why was really fun about this walk. There wasn't so much a labelled track, just a disused service track and a track leading to the sea.
The rocky outcrops were really cool, rising like manmade standing stones out of the bush. It would have been even better in the sunshine or at golden hour, but although it was grey, it was warm enough and very still.
I wandered along the shoreline for quite a ways til finding a track back up to the lighthouse. Alot of my experience was impressions, as such:
Great cormorants and pacific gulls take frightened flight, and on the shoreline the carcass of a giant feathered thing rots. Imprints of landed aviators on the sand. There's wombat burrows, square scat telling. Wild bees. Tiny fish in fingerling pools, protected from waves coming home to shore. Red and orange, green lichen. Carpet of pigface leading down to shore - in season you could glut on the fruit. Salty and slightly bitter samphire, out of season. Smatterings of rain. Tiny yellow flowers, pink too. Grasses. Rocky outcrops, sentinels of stone. Sponges, driftwood, cuttlefish, bones. Warrigul greens. Fossils, shells, stones shot through with quartz. Twisted wire, bottles, seaglass. Kelp in varying stages of decay. Blue starfish. Africa to the far, far, far west and Antarctic way below. White sand tracks. The lighthouse leading me back up to the road.
What I haven't been able to stop thinking about is what I read this morning about Aboriginal art on rocks to the north a few kilometers. I was all set to go find it as it sounded incredible - concentric circles and lines on rocks just above the waterline. Some of it was taken for the Hobart museum in the 60s. It's over 2000 years old and meant to be the best rock art in Australia, if not the world.
Sadly though it was buried purposefully under sand to stop it eroding.. that was in the 1970s!!! So for 50 years no one has seen it. Isn't that crazy?
In the afternoon we walk up the other end of Mawsons Bay again, closer to the site of the rock art. You can get a sense of the size if you can spot my friend under the cliff. Beautiful.
The it was time for a shower.. very makeshift but it was good to destink a little!
From tomorrow I'll be fully on my own again. I'm not sure where I am headed, but it's kinda cool to finally be solo. It's what I wanted, after all. I do miss my hubs desperately though. Funny how you can crave space and miss someone at the same time. Life is just lovelier with him around. I'm certainly looking forward to a snuggle.
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Very pleasant @riverflows
You manage to even explore the smallest details of your every footstep.
It seems like both your feet have eyes, you are very detailed and manage to make everything interesting to pay attention to in detail.
Thankyou. It was hard to convey exactly how beautiful it was.
Oh, the place is wonderful!
Are you planning to visit the Aboriginal art rocks? I would looove to feel the place, although everything is buried... Crazy and so frustrating!
Many many years ago I read The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin and almost 15 years later I still think of the dreaming tracks, magic!
That's our shower system too, haha!
Oh yes Somglines was awesome. No, if it is under sand you just can't see it. And the locals told us the indigenous people here don't like you climbing the mountain there and going onto that land so will be respectful. But there's another place I think I'll try to get to!!!
Of course, it is sacred land! I would like to feel the energy of the place, even without seeing. There is always sth very special to these places. Indigenous people are so right, they are protecting the land because they have seen a lot...
You are so lucky to be in such a powerful environment!
It's a super sad story about Tasmanian aboriginals. They were all but wiped out. Read about Truganini. One if the guys she was with when they killed the whalers on the mainland, Pevay, was from this area.
Yes, I will check it out. Sadly, all stories about indigenous people all over the world are very similar. At least nowadays many people try to bring it all in the surface, not that it will be healed but at least not to be forgotten what has been done... Thank you for sharing!
The holiday is looking absolutely amazing!
You will love it! Where will you head @lordtimoty ?
Good Morning - we're getting closer.
Flying into Launceston on Tuesday 12th - driving to Hobart on the Saturday, then a few days in Hobart before flying out the following Tuesday. We're all set for a busy few days, but am confident there will be a lot of time to just 'be'. Very much looking forward to doing just that -
Who knows, maybe we will cross paths!
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Oh esas fotografías están geniales, me encantaron. Que la pasen muy bien
I never can travel solo anywhere, unless I am forced to. So far the situation has not forced me, always with family or friends.
It's nice being with people you love for sure! But I also love my own company and quiet.
What a nice places it looks attractive and great. The place was wonderful
It sure is!
What a great adventure, such an interesting place to explore. You are so brave to go solo, will you be alone for a while or just a short time?
I wish all the best, enjoy every minute of it!
Peace.
I'll be on my own for six whole days!!
Omg, really ? Oh it seems like such tough country, but you are young and strong so I know you will be fine .
At 67 I don’t want to be alone, if I need my space, I go visit one of my 4 children or I walk my homestead.
My hubby and I have learned over the years to share our own personal space and it has served us well.
I give thanks everyday for my family
I wish you all the best
Sending hugs from the farm -mom
As you said in the beginning, you need time for yourself, indeed the place you show us in today's post really helps to fulfill your desire.
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SOLO time is perfect time, especially when it is chosen! Enjoy and allow your Beingness to regenerate. 🦋
There's something so powerfully BLEAK about your images - windswept and a little desolate that have me craving some alone time too (as I sit in the office Monday morning with a to-do list as long as your arm).
Burying the rock paintings for 50 years?? One wonders as to the WHY.
Enjoy the moments, my dear, for they are promised to no one. x
Its utterly lovely being alone. I love my friend dearly but if she laughed at her farts one more time.. 😂 ... There's something very special about being here and in my own space. So much of what happens doesn't go on HIVE.
OH, the why is because they felt they'd be eroded further and lost forever. They don't want to spend the money doing something to protect them and it's a minefield of course ensuring all people are happy with what they do. Build a replica nearby as they do in some places? Security is always an issue.. vandals do their thing sadly.
May you find some peace and alone time in Cyprus somewhere!
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I can relate to the crave space and miss someone desperately thing...
Loved the standing stones...
very nice place to explore, beautiful post!