Sunny Garden

We walk on the beach.
    Fortuna comes over and we walk slowly in the late afternoon when the air is cooler and the breeze is beginning and the light is coming in lower from the west, over the land.
    We go through the shin-deep water where Tooway Creek crosses the sand and runs into the sea and we walk on the rocks of the headland (p. 126).

    Far out to sea two ships turn away from straight lines, head away from each other, for different parts of the horizon.
    She takes my hand and leads me carefully over the wet mossy contours of the stone as though she is my eyes (p. 126).

    We stop at Peregian, at a place Fortuna says makes great fish and chips, and we sit on the grass eating off the paper. Around us other people are doing the same, and there are families on blankets unpacking food, a baby misjudging an ice-cream, smearing it across its face and not caring, pointing at birds instead (p. 135).

Continue with the After January tour.

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