Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Australia is the largest island in the world. Part of the Australian coastline round Westernport Bay at Flinders, Mornington Peninsula. More circling coastline can be seen in the distance, leading out to the Tasman Sea
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ABC Wednesday Round 3 prompt ~ I is for Island
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ An island in the middle of the Nepean Highway as it wanders through Dromana by Port Phillip Bay
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ An island walkway in the middle of the Dromana Hub carpark
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A tree has its own private island in the middle of the Dromana Hub carpark
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Island romancing
Hungering for primal dreams
Visionary whirlpools
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ From a distance, Mount Martha on Port Phillip Bay gives the illusion of being an island
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
AUTUMN is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter
AUTUMN whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key
AUTUMN is an introspective season, when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul
- Gemma Wiseman
AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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25 comments:
Beautiful photos! Australia is one I the places I would love to visit in my lifetime!
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australia is certainly is a big island
in new zealand we sometimes refererd to it as the west island (you know what i mean: north island, south island...)
awesome place to enjoy during summer! very clear and beautiful, nice capture...
A bouquet of islands! It all reminds of the year we spent in Melbourne 1966-1967.
Morning Gemma - Sitting here working before school, and have used this post again on Pyewacket's Party. :)
Love this one. :)
Beautiful curving inlets on an expansive shoreline.
I hadn't thought of islands in the road, but the proof is there!
I live in an area that they call 'the island', which is by no means an island, but back in history before the levees were built, the great Mississippi River yearly over-flowed her banks, creating islands everywhere, so our ground is sand. Fertile land for producing crops. We are famous for our Muscatine watermelons and cantelope.
But the mighty Mississippi has a beauty all her own, even when flooded and winds whip up white-caps, very ocean like. But it is the natural way of things...we have just altered her course.
Beautiful shots, per usual my fave is the rolling sea.
sharon
I enjoyed your blog!
Thanks for visiting mine too!
Lovely Ruby post as well!
See you!
Wished I was sitting by the bay.I love the seaside.
Thanks for visiting me, please come again.
Hi Gemma, very interesting post, and I do love your pictures on your blog. Always a fun visit here. Thanks for stopping by mine and leaving such a nice comment.
What terrific photos! Australia is also on my list of places I'd like to visit, although it's doubtful that I will ever actually get there! Thanks for the sweet comments on my blog!
Hi Gemma,
I liked your post. It was very interesting. Beautiful pictures. I hope you have a lovely day.
I live on a small island too, but nothing like this!!!
Thanks for visiting my blog!
You have very nice pictures. Hope to see you again in my blog :)
These are wonderful photos! Thanks for visiting my blog.
Thank you for your very Interesting Images.
Bear((( )))
Islands win.
Fantastic pics, I especially love the first one. I really enjoy your blog and will return often
Cheers
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Australia is the largest island in the world! You are absolutely right! It's as large as Europe and has a little bit more inhabitants than The Netherlands, which is half the size of Tasmania. We have 17 million inhabitants. It's a most interesting island with a most interesting population. Thanks for your guided tour along islands.
All nice photos for "I" and here I thought "Internet" and my "Insect" were original and cleverly thought up. I am impressed.
I didn't realize how far behind in commenting I was, I need to keep up :) One of these days I will make it to Australia, I really can't wait to see it in person.
I've always wanted to visit Australia. Thanks for sharing your island pictures. I invite you to come by and taste some of my homemade ice cream. - Margy
I guess we will never get to Australia, but your blog brings Australia to us! Thanks so much.
Dxx
Very, very pretty!
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