Enclave of Sea Glass, Driftwood and Crockery Shards

 

 Like a corner where old memories are washed, there is a tiny Sydney Harbour beach where the tide, the habour currents and the wind contrive to create a home for flotsam, a pantry of cracked crockery, crazed pottery, wave-turned, sea-polished wood and sand-smoothed sea glass. Someone, or someones, have salvaged and arranged the harbour's offerings into a quiet riot of colour and shape, a trove of broken pieces mended by time.

Churning the Sea of Milk - Angkor Watt's Marine Survey

One of the best creation myths,  Angkor Watt's elegant frieze of asuras and devas churning the sea of milk might also double in as a survey of the marine life of the twelfth century commissioned by Khmer king Suryavarman I. The whole relief, a consummate drama of swish and pull, watched over by Amsara, underpinned by fish, runs the length of a colonnade but seems to be longer than its 160 feet length, especially as the doorways ahead recede in a perfect regression, and to the right the open field pulses deep green in the heat.

Beaufort Re-Scales with an Extra Strong Umbrella

Obviously there are great expectations for the paper mermaid kite that came with this advice and safety directions. The prospect that it might reach the same altitude as any plane is an exciting one. Though perhaps there plane envisaged is a paper plane, though this I doubt is something to be warned abut. Then the mermaid kite may be made of the same stern stuff as the model umbrella featured in the After Beaforte Scale.  It may be that I'm a recidiivist buyer of cheap brollies but most mine invert well before somewhere between the  leave rendering, and the stiff flag phase. 

The Other Face of Luna Park -Sydney

The side of the famous front door smile of Luna Park in Sydney is elegantly exuberant art deco tower of geometrically intricated lights and plaster. Here the Chrysler-esque finials are just a a faint arc of  lights,.And that garishly gorgeous grin ? It might be a world away.