Goodnight, Fraser

Here's the sunset over the jetty at Kingfisher Bay after we'd got back from our 4WD adventure. It's a pity it was cloudy but it was atmospheric all the same.

After the sun went down and the clouds had cleared we walked right along the jetty to look at the stars. Just as at Murramarang, the milky way stretched as far as we could see. I found the southern cross and asked him what I'm going to do about this great southern land and the way it draws me in. I didn't get an answer.

And then Ella started crying so we had to leave the long-limbed German twenty-somethings to their night sky and their cigarettes.

"You know what, Ella?" I said "One day, you'll come to this island on your gap year, and we'll be paying for it. And when you do, I'm going to call you on your mobile phone and make whingeing noises across the miles when you're looking up wistfully at the night sky".