Mallacoota Dreamin'....

No other place makes me feel as restful, at peace as does Mallacoota.
Oh I'm sure there's plenty of other places on Earth that could do it for me, but none I have been to yet.
We got there on Wednesday, and upon opening our new little acquisition up, were amazed to find it more well appointed, more cute, and far more spacious than we had remembered it.

What ever suffering we have to go through to get to it and undergo to keep it- I'm sure it will be well worth it.
Sitting on that little balcony, watching the pelicans glide by, the little boats on the inlet, the people coming and going we would go into a state of blissful silence.
In the backyard, the same trance was made possible by sitting and watching the birds flutter in the bird bath, the skinks sunning and then scuttling as the sun hid then peeped out from behind the clouds. The last of the Indian summer warmth along with humidity brought out all the wildlife and colours and sounds of summer although it was Autumn.
It was all too lovely.
Hopefully we will get down there in the winter to see what that season will offer.


"Save Bastion Point!"
Down at the beach the pristine waves crashed in over the dogs and myself as we played, and we raced and dodged amongst beautiful rocks which comprise the life-giving home of many species of vegetation and sea creatures. The incredibly clean feel and smell of the place, the knowing that it is one of the last great areas of wilderness and undeveloped coast are feelings I treasure.
Apparently this will all change , if the "powers that be" get to push ahead with their desire to develop a concrete sea-wall and huge car-parking area, along with staircases- formalising and structuring a beautifully wild and naturally positioned piece of head-land, creating a "human-made" beach, like we see here at the Surf-Coast, where most of the beaches have lost their unsullied charm.
"Save Bastion Point" has become the catch-cry of many of the locals- who understand how precious their little corner of the world is.
I so want this development to go away, too. Please don't let Bastion Point be a Bastion that falls to the lure of greedy developers who want to sacrifice wilderness for the safe mundane appearance of sanitized macadamized car parks and a totally predictable swell onto a concrete wall. Mallacoota is a 6 hour drive from its nearest major city for goodness sake.
In the words of the Beatles- Let it Be!