Tag: Glenelg

Look both ways XIV: silence and noise

Silence, Holdfast Bay, Glenelg, South Australia

As we look back on the year past and that to come, here’s a new Look both ways. One way tranquil, idyllic and silent, the other buzzing with excitement and noise. Good to look both ways. Look both ways – a pair of photographs from the same position with opposite points of view. See also

Continue reading

Proclamation Day holiday

Whilst the rest of the world relaxes on their Boxing Day holiday, South Australians commemorate Proclamation Day. On the 28th of December 1836, after circumnavigating the globe on HMS Buffalo, the first Governor issued King William’s proclamation of the new colony in a place now known as the Old Gum Tree, a colony not of

Continue reading

Not for galeophobes

I had just entered the water and was busy acclimatising as the helicopter passed again. Seconds later, and before I could plunge in fully, the surf lifesaving dingy was hurtling towards me from the next beach down the coast.