An hour earlier, I had been standing in brilliant sunshine, as my eyes and camera gazed across intensely blue water, a rocky shoreline, coastal scrub, and colourful, granite-loving lichens.
By 2.45 pm, however, our little group was walking under a light grey sky, and heading just a little inland.
It was no longer pointless to point a camera lens at the “roof” of Flinders Island.
Strzelecki National Park’s circa 42 square kilometres account for most of Flinders Island’s southwestern corner.
The Strzelecki Peaks’ altitude is relatively modest, but they are very dramatic and their upper slopes offer incredible views.
Mount Strzelecki’s summit is variously credited – sometimes, within a single source – as being either 756 metres or 782 metres above sea level; either way, it is somewhat taller (and much more spectacular) than the Adelaide Hills’ Mount Lofty.
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Post-election teaser
The best of the post-election essays that I have read asks a key question – one that cannot yet be answered, but which ought concern anybody with an interest in Australia’s future.
The next Pelican Yoga post will link you to that essay.
It includes this extract from a speech by a notable Australian politician:
We must remove from the minds of men the fear of poverty as the result of illness, or accident, or old age. We must turn our schools into institutions which will produce young men and women avid for further education and increased knowledge. We must raise the material standard of living so that all children can grow up with sufficient space and light and proper nourishment; so that women may be freed from domestic drudgery; and so that those scientific inventions which are conducive to a more gracious life may be brought within the means of all. We must raise the spiritual standard of living so that we may get a spirit of service to the community and so that we may live together without hate, even though we differ on the best road to reach our objectives. And we must do all this without losing that political freedom which has cost us so dearly, and without which these tasks cannot be accomplished.
You will probably be more than a little surprised when you discover the “who”, the ”when” and the “where”!
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