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You may have guessed. My favourite place is the river. Anywhere on the river. I love the peace and tranquility and a how it constantly changes.
In response to weekly photo challenge
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About 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.
Beautiful places, gorgeous photos, Irene.
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Thank you Nicole. It is so tranquil anywhere on the river and with all its different moods I am happy to visit time after time, in fact most days I will walk the dogs along a part of the river.
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Beautiful photos of the river, Irene. especially the sunset ones are gorgeous! We are close to the ocean, but our beaches are busy. We have a lake close by which is peaceful.
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I know what you mean Miriam. We are close to the ocean also and I rarely go there because it is so busy and so difficult to park. The river is a different proposition altogether. Glad you have a lake that you can soak up the peace.
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We went to Bondi beach, it wasn’t too busy. Of course I compared with the beaches in southern California where people literally having the beach towels and umbrellas next to each other. We just walk around them.
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Yes – we think our beach is busy but it is nothing like Europe and from the sound of what you are saying California.
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Yes, we thought Australia was quiet, haha… 💖😊
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We don’t know how lucky we are.
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My husband has an aunt lived in Blue Mountain. We visited The Three Sisters. We climbed on the Harbor Bridge – most expensive event!!
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When we lived in Sydney I used to walk in the Blue Mountains a lot. I envy your bravery doing the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb.
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We had everything on hooks. I didn’t know if I had anything loose, but when we went to the top and I looked down, something fell out and went straight down. It was very windy.
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You’re a braver woman than me.
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Try to do things when we travel. 💖
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Love the pelicans!
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We get lots of pelicans on the river. So much fun to watch.
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Beautiful. No wonder it’s your favourite place.
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Thanks. It is so tranquil that you can’t help but feel at peace no matter what its mood.
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Sky and water—what could be more beautiful! Lovely pictures, Irene!
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Thanks Diane. The river is always beautiful but always changing. I think it is beautiful too.
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Such amazing photographs, Irene.
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Thank you Robbie. I think so too – the river is my go to place and I’m lucky enough to be able to walk to it.
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I like all of your photos but the one with the sunset and the moon caught my eye.
My (OK, just really borders my yard) creek is a treasure. 🙂
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I don’t know if it was a moon or something in the light refraction but if it was the moon – boy was it a blue moon.
Water becomes so special to you. We once had a river as our border and it was lovely knowing it was at the bottom of the garden even though we couldn’t see it unless it was in flood and we rarely went down to it – so I know what you mean.
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Looks like the moon to me – too big for the sun… and I didn’t see any lights around. You could always check the moon rise times with the paper for the day (if you remember the date). But it is common enough to have the sun and moon share the sky. Just the light from the water could have made the moon look blue. I showed the photo to my hubby and he thinks it could be the moon too. Maybe you didn’t plan it – but it’s there! 🙂
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LOL. I’m happy to believe it is the moon and water reflection would do it.
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I do believe, I do believe. The moon isn’t quite full…looks like just a little bit of the bottom right chin of the face isn’t quite there… I bet if you blew it up you could see craters 😉
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I’ll give it a go. I’ll let you know if i’m successful.
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I thought you were a success! We’ll you are in my eyes 😉
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Now you have split my face from ear to ear. Thanks. I think I’ll float through the day now.
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There’s something soothing to live close by the water. Such an ideal place you have. Love those birds.
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I agree. I am very lucky to live in a place that is full of water. No-one lives out of walking distance of walking here and the three towns which have joined together as one cover quite an area. The pelicans are fantastic. Thanks.
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