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Mar 20 2014
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West Pier, Brighton

Thursday 20th March 2014, 10.00am (day 938)

West pier, 20/3/14

This is the ruined West Pier’s second appearance on the blog, the first — accompanied by a huge flock of starlings — being way back on Day 72. Earlier this year it lost another chunk of ironwork to the winter storms, although that damage is not really visible on this shot. The photo also proves that it was a glorious morning on the south coast today — rather nicer than the foul wind and rain back in the north when I got home tonight, I can tell you (grumble).

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Oct 09 2013
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Brighton pier, Wednesday morning

Wednesday 9th October 2013, 9.15am (day 776)

Brighton Pier, 9/10/13

Finished work last night too late to get home, but not too late to get down to Brighton and spend the night there rather than in the suburbs. And, well, sometimes you just have to say that you made the right choice.

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Jul 27 2013
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Brighton Beach

Wednesday 24th July 2013, 3.45pm (day 699)

 

Brighton beach, 24/7/13

Ah, the English seaside on a hot summer’s day. Sand? That’s for those continentals, of suspicious morality and lacking in backbone.

 

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May 23 2013
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Beach volleyball

Monday 20th May 2013, 1.55pm (day 634)

Beach volleyball, 20/5/13

Is there any point trying to convince any of you that I have actually been working while here on the Yasawas? Going through academic papers and taking notes for my book? No? Didn’t think so.

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May 23 2013
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The ‘Bula’ party

Saturday 18th May 2013, 10.55am (day 632)

Bula party, 18/5/13

‘Bula’ means ‘Welcome’ or ‘Hello’ and you hear it a lot in Fiji – because they are very nice and welcoming people. Each 11am, when the Yasawa Flyer turns up at the resort, the staff gather on the beach to greet the new arrivals. It’s the major event of the morning.

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Apr 03 2013
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Storm over Stradbroke Island

Wednesday 3rd April 2013, 11.10am (day 587)

Storm, Stradbroke Island, 3/4/13

This particular one didn’t hit Point Lookout (where we reside) although one did come along later in the evening.

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Apr 03 2013
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Footprints

Tuesday 2nd April 2013, 4.25pm (day 586)

Footprints, 2/4/13

Clare’s, to be exact: imprinted on the sand of Home Beach, North Stradbroke Island.

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Apr 03 2013
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Behind the breakwater, Ballina

Monday 1st April 2013, 2.00pm (day 585)

Ballina beach, 1/4/13

Being as this is one of the world’s great beach countries it is perhaps a reflection of my own tastes in activity that a beach has not featured on here since February 28th: but let’s bookend the beachless month of March with a return to that environment for a few days, here at Ballina. This girl is collecting shells off the breakwater. I like the strange pose that she’s been caught in, a sort of sense of discovery about it.

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Feb 28 2013
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DOC worker near Twin Beach, Heaphy Coast

Thursday 28th February 2013, 1.40pm (day 553)

DOC worker, Heaphy Coast, 28/2/13

DOC is the Department of Conservation, the body who look after New Zealand’s wonderful environment, and are trying to continue to do so in the face of the same old funding pressures foisted on us by the moronocracy. Be nice to these people, who are basically trying to help the world. Mind you, they do get to work in some pretty attractive locations.

Last day walking the Heaphy Track – usually people take five days, I did it in three, including a 37km (23 mile) last day. My feet hurt. But I’m happy to have done it, and now I’ve caught up with this blog: however, more photos from the walk, and details on the experience, are shortly going up on my walking blog.

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Feb 22 2013
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Sawyers Beach, Stewart Island

Thursday 21st February 2013, 7.10pm (day 546)

Sawyers beach, 21/2/13

 

This is pretty much how I imagined New Zealand was going to look. I had to walk several miles north of Oban to find it, on the Rakiura Track (see my post here, on my other blog), but here it is, on a spectacularly beautiful evening.

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