hoping for
crystal clear water
and a swim
Some days in summer the waters around the edge of our bayside area can be very still and clear. Looking down towards the Red Bluff caught by the setting sun one is panning towards the beaches Charlie loves to walk on and contemplate paddling from.
This is my contribution to the exhilarating Haiku Challenge facilitated by Ronovan. The creative range of poetry flooding into Ronovan’s site this week with the challenge words Crystal and Hope can be accessed at https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-79-crystalhope/
Haiku hound 
Serenity is the word that comes to mind. Beautiful!
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Thanks Sandra. It certainly is a beautiful bay however one has to keep a lookout for Tiger snakes along this part of the cliff.
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A terrific shot, Denis!
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Thanks Laura, I assume you meant Charlie!!!
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Absolutely! She steals the show!
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Charlie thanks you!!
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Give her a hug for me!
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Thanks laura
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You’re a wonderful story teller, Denis, with your photos and your poetic words.
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Thanks Olga, your comments are very supportive.
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Each of your posts about warmth and summer accompanied by fabulous scenic shots makes me understand more and more why so many Irish move to Australia and find it hard to return. Thanks for sharing your world. Your haiku feels very personal!
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Thanks for those thoughts Melissa. The haiku comes from either a response to a happening or feeling and often the image is taken as part of that. Our summer I don’t really like to photograph because of the heat and light unless its a sunset. Most of my images are the other 3 seasons, or if following the Indigenous seasons, the other 5 to 7. My Irish ancestors along with many others came here in the early to mid C19th. Often there was no choice, they were in chains as prisoners of the English ( political or petty criminal), or fleeing English persecution or facing starvation or as desperate migrants hoping for a life. Todays Irish are often young backpackers looking for work and staying but the numbers have dropped off as opportunities increase back in Eire.
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Wonderful to learn so much from your response. Charlie is the vision of joy and happiness, completely content sitting by the seashore, dreaming.
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Thanks Melissa, she certainly enjoys the beach, hence Sandra linking this page over to your “Happy” photo challenge
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Charlie looks so regal as she looks over the water. Enjoyed the peacefulness of your pictures and haiku. The idea of swimming off that beach is wonderful.
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Thanks fore those thoughts. Charlie does love the beach Janice mainly for walking. Our bay has some of the best safest swimming beaches in Australia.
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What a fantastic place to be! (once you survive the heat :))
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Usually the evenings are OK after a hot day if a breeze of any kind springs up
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Like a dreamy place, fascinated me. But with your haiku it gets the meaning more… How much I love your Charlie, standing so noble. Kiss for me, dear Denis, Thank you, have a nice day, love, nia
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Thanks so much Nia and I will pass on the kiss to Charlie. WE both hope your health is improving.
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Thank you so much so much, 🙂 love , nia
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How did you get her to pose like that, or was it luck. 🙂
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No posing Ron, she usually sits around like this. Charlie learnt to sit with her legs crossed from her granny Rosie. Rosie reared her when her mother and sibling were taken away by “the Russians” when she was only 4 weeks old.
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I hope you had a good swim. The bay can be very beautiful sometimes. You live in a particularly lovely area.
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Charlie did not swim that day however there are beautiful swimming beaches here.
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Indeed there are. I used to go to Ricketts Point a lot when my children were small. It was the perfect family beach. When I was growing up we went to Parkdale near the yacht club a lot and also Mentone. I have fond memories of all the beaches around that area.
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