White Horses

TASSIE GLOW

In the 1990s my parents bought a block of land down at White Beach, a quiet coastal area on the Tasman Peninsula. Close to fun waves, our bush block was the place where we would escape the city to camp, surf and enjoy sitting around a fire at night.

Some years later, in 2001, during one of these trips my best mate Tom and I had jumped in the car with my old man to check a nearby beach we usually surfed. Standing alongside Dad that morning, we

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