“One of my favourite places, ” says Jazz.
Lots of ocean-exploring over the weekend with Jazz & Dom. Jazz says she could sit all day and watch the vissisitude of the ocean. We talked about the wild waves crashing and the small timid waves creeping in and the ever changing ocean. I loved it that the ocean holds her in all its moods. It was low tide, which gave us scope to ramble about, rock hopping and gazing into rock pools , one of our happy places.
Jazz exploring at low tide
Jazz pondering the unceasing quest of the ocean
Jazz who plans to be a Marine Biologist and hopes in some way to play her part in saving our oceans found lots of interest in our afternoon walk. Our most beautiful being the blood-red Anemone
Sometimes it is called the Waratah Anemone and at low tide it looks like a small red blob on crevices near rock pools. In this state it has all its tentacles drawn in to minimise its exposure to the air while it waits for the return of the tide. We were lucky to capture a few waving their tenticles around looking flower like.
The Neptune’s necklace actually called Hormosira and other sea weed and the different varieies of kelp and sea weed was another interesting thing to explore . Some people forage this for their gardens or to eat as it is full of sea mineral.
Below are some of the haiku and tanka Jazz wrote at school this week.
River
nature’s stream glowing
glistening in the dark
cockatoos singing
trees of vibrant green
the silent breeze blowing through
earth’s heart beat echoes
the flowers blooming
nature’s waterfall crashing
cascading rivers
colourful rainbows
reflecting on water
oh what a great sight
Ocean
the ocean waves crush
whales leaping joyfully
seaweed flowing through
sealife swimming happily
dolphns squeaking, fish playing
the colour of blue
reflecting off the blue sky
the sea gulls chirping
salty scent of the ocean
wind blowing through my wet hair
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Dom practiced spinning stones with Pa, sliding down sandhills, walling up the rockpools and exploring and sharing out search to observe marine life and sharing his very talented gift of drawing a dragon.
Drawing a detailed dragon
Getting some hints from Pa on spinning stones
and surfing in Keating beach
Back at the beach house listening to the ocean in the shell and having brekky with the family.
