GREAT SOUTHERN LAND
Oct 19, 2020
4 minutes
BY MITCH GREEN
9 May, 2020. I silence the 6am alarm and stumble out of bed to check the eastern sky. It’s almost clear. Almost. There’s a small cloud cluster over the ocean to the south. Nothing to the north, nothing out to sea, nothing above. Oh well, I think. I’m already up, let’s take a look.
Soon I’m on the highway down to Kiama on the south coast of NSW. Looking out the car window, the cluster hasn’t moved. There’s no wind this morning and it seems to remain in place, suspended in the sky. This could be on.
I drive a little faster, using all of the available speed limit. Although the clouds remain small, a rough mental PhotoPills calculation
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