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For about ten days each year, the Currumbin Beach esplanade transforms into a sculpture park, alive and brimming with creative juices. The foreshore grass, trees, sand dunes and the sentinel-like rocks that book-end Currumbin Beach provide the landscape for around 55 sculptures to stand, sit, hang, chime, swing or wheel around. And that’s what I saw when I was out riding today. Today it was installation day for the Swell Sculpture Festival. Artists combined… Read More
Remember the serenity of the signs of Spring that I wrote about in my last post? The buoyant awakening of life and leaf as the weather warms. The sweet scent of blossoms melding and perfuming the air. Well let me tell you about the sound of ‘CLACK CLACK!’ To which, heads duck, pedals spin faster and serenity flees. That’s right Spring also means Magpie season. The Australian Magpie sings a beautiful warble that… Read More
This post comes with a soundtrack 🙂 Recorded this morning on the second last day of winter as I rode beside Tallebudgera Creek at West Burleigh Heads. You’ll hear the birdsong of Pied Currawongs, Magpies and Rainbow Lorikeets, cars passing by and a plane buzzing overhead. Yet still the birds sing on, each in their own voice, telling me there are signs of Spring. You know, when it’s soon to be Spring. Signposts… Read More
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