Perfect rest spot

Updated December 29 2012 - 1:13am, first published 12:59am
Robert Hunt in Rowes Lagoon.
Robert Hunt in Rowes Lagoon.
Rowes Lagoon.
Rowes Lagoon.
Rowes Lagoon.
Rowes Lagoon.
Warning signs at Rowes Lagoon.
Warning signs at Rowes Lagoon.

A hurtful blue sky reflects on the mill pond lagoon. Old gnarly gums reach out of the heat haze on the distant shore. Closer, poking up out of the water like giant spikes on an echidna, are millions of reeds. Some are green and some browned off by the summer heat. A magpie goose squawks in front of me - alerting his friends of my presence. Any number of other waterbirds shelter from the heat, hidden among the maze of reeds. You can hear them shifting in their hidey holes.

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