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Irene Waters
Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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Wow! Fabulous images – is the last one a fungus?
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Thanks Sharon. Yes the last image is a fungi of some description. Certainly not edible.
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I wouldn’t even touch it! But makes a fascinating photo.
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Good day Irene, your entry this week is fabulous. 😀
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Thanks Cee. Glad you liked it.
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I like the horse and the goat. It seems they are smiling for the camera! 🙂
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I think they’re smiling too. 😀
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The horse is so cute ❤
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I couldn’t agree more. 😀
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What is that second and third photo? The third one is kind of beautiful and hideous at the same time.
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The second and third photos are both hideous and beautiful. The second is a sea snail in its death throes and the third is a blue bottle. Both have been washed up on the beach. Blue Bottles are very painful when you get caught by their trailing tentacles/stingers. When the wind and currents are going a particular direction swimming in the ocean may not be pleasant.
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😮 Gah! How do you know it’s dying? All the bubbles, I’m assuming, but did it just need to be back in the water? I had to look up “blue bottle”. I was going to guess a jellyfish. That seems to be what it is or at least in that family. (Looks a bit like an alien.)
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Yes the bubbles. Once the bubbles come it is too late. Blue bottles are different to jelly fish in that they are not a single multicellular organism. Instead they are made up of colonies of individual animals which are unable to survive alone as they need the workings of the others to survive as a single animal. They are also known as Portuguese man o’ war. It’s an alien you don’t want to come across when swimming.
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That blue bottle is fascinating. Unbelievable. I’m showing this to my kids.
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