This post’s featured image was taken five minutes after the immediately-previous chapter’s.
As you can see, the bobtail was still abiding by an instruction famously issued by the most celebrated 20th century Welsh poet: Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas wrote the poem in 1947, six years before his death in 1953, at age 39 years.
At 11.36 am on 20 September 2025 the bobtail was still valiant, but its inevitable death was imminent.
At 11.40 am we departed, in order to keep our lunch appointment.
It is safe to assume that the dugite was already digesting its ‘whole lizard” lunch in Kings Park well before we began to “eat Italian” in Subiaco.
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