In recent weeks, Rocky and I have spent our mornings exploring the stretch of St Kilda beach that starts at the grassy park in front of the white painted lighthouse beside the Elwood Marina and ends at the outcrop of porous sand- coloured rocks which mark the boundary, the transition, from St Kilda to the [...]
Rocky has had a haircut and on this cold morning, straining on the leash as we walk on the sand in the semi-darkness, he is a dog transformed. Rather than the mutt he was before, he is now a dog of breeding. At least in the sense that he clearly comes from a middle-class home. [...]
Along the path beside the newly green grass– revived by a few days of reasonable rain– that stretches down to the lighthouse, the grass on which the local council wants to built a skate park, before dawn, the sky suffused with the soft white light of a full moon, there in the distance, perhaps 100 metres [...]
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