lakes entrance

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19-1-8 lazy light rain, very early walk/spruik sleepy saturday morning. took in forty but. succumbed to kfc. then library and marina parkup another burgee to boat. much trash picked up. diesel spill in marina fouling the air. had another vision of gaia. then the rain drove me to pub.
20-1-8 majic moments i reached merimbula. early morning walk spotted wanda scared up a whole flock on mamula lake short track. speckled bark gums slender in the regrowth. some big beauties but. tea and day of fasting as evidence emerges that fasting is fantastic. ambling drive thru tracts of trees, thru bega to stand midtown for two hours. handwavers hot. heard of rock festival in the arvo and parkedup beach cliffside mild seabreeze sat shaded by parasol of cloud. surf crowd about. sticker on ute. looks like one at a time. can i do six hundred handwavers in melbn australia day and or qatar match? here now bunch of blokes handed me heaps and got flag and stickers. another bloke remembered me from port douglas eightteen months ago. rocky headland here ocre bits like red rocks on beach, painting ceremony place here to start work of planting. all our acts have consequences, together we can make all good. woman walker with dog got car stickered.
21-1-8 rapture, rapt that ancient notion of good vibes parkedup sheltered on peninsula east of town having cooked and dined in blustery conditions. white kite blokes on side before i met them. sticker on ute and other bloke promised his. grey black bird orange beak ate red berries. dark woman with rounded features got sticker on mitsubishi. cold, pleasant but with ungluing jumper. frills its not. lorikeets quietly chirp in bush. walking woman middle-aged for flag. twelve dots because they're beautiful. orange speckled brown and wattle birds. elder male wanting extra sticker! merimbula.
22-1-8 hooley dooley parkedup eden. destructuring our parameters. doona night. chill a.m. sun finally broke thru mid morning. had ripper of a spruik my hip hurt but. one bloke flags for three children, onya mate. so its kinda like being lost. or serendipty the apparent ability to have good luck. be lucky. break a leg. bullshit. day fined up to a kind of perfect. gentle southeasterly muffled by green branches. gulls passing. signal light white on blues - sky, sea. discovery of public hot shower on dock! how good is that. and the endlessly fascinating flow of ever more followers. we can do it.
23-1-8 early departure and drive on empty road (except logging trucks) thru trees, more trees. turned off for cabbage tree track. five kliks on dirt track. ten minute walk so i did it twice. bell, whip and kooka calls. tall and low ferns. four topknot pigeons grey, 'rusty crest sweeps back from eye over crown to nape'. quick noon spruik lakes entrance excellent.

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