You know the saying: every dark cloud has a silver lining. My particular dark cloud for the past two days has been having to endure a “corporate team-building event”, a peculiar mix of stultifying boredom and the stress brought on by the need to hide such boredom. My silver lining was that the event was held at a hotel in Coogee, which is a beach suburb just a few kilometres south of where I live. Free (at last!!) at 4:45pm today, I headed home along the coast path, savouring the treat of a weekday walk as the sun set.
I knew there were a number of benches en route, but not until I started to photograph them did I notice that they were not all the same. Wooden benches, metal benches, art benches — all with a view. Just the thing for another post for HeyJude’s Benches with a View!
I had hoped for a more dramatic sunset, but the peacefulness of my last shot almost makes up for the lack of drama.
A lovely walk along the coast and I may have even sat on some of those benches and admired the view! I am very jealous!
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I’m sure you did! I took some great photos of the ocean at Clovelly too — high tide, lots of rough water splashing around, but fairly calm at the beach end, and all with a bit of colour from the pseudo sunset reflecting on water and wet cement. A lovely time of day, which I rarely get to experience as I’m usually at work. 😦
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So the boring ‘team-bonding’ course had one advantage then 😀
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ONLY one! 😦
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AND the joy that was undoubtedly being felt by the woman who had been taken there, I’m sure, Kaz.
Lovely pic.s !
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Thank you M-R. Re ‘joy’, are you referring to last pic with the woman in a wheelchair? I encountered that couple over at Gordon’s Bay, and like me they meandered over to that hill overlooking Clovelly. Not a very level outing in a wheelchair, but the husband helped her along.
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I thought it was so wonderful, Kaz. I would’ve given anything to be able to take Chic out; but once he was committed to the hospital bed, he had no wish to go anywhere.
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That is sad. But (at the risk of sounding patronising) there is a difference between a disability and a major illness. I’ve sailed with so many amazing people who had physical disabilities but were not ill, and were as active and engaged as possible; whereas even a bad cold can knock a person down and eliminate interest in going out.
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You’re quite right ! – and I don’t know why I even thought of Chic in that scenario !
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You probably wanted to still be able to share things with him. 🙂
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This is such an interesting and unique concept of ‘Bench with a View’. Loved all your photos. They are very beautiful and nicely composed 🙂
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Thank you Suyash! I had a very enjoyable walk while taking them.
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Absolutely, one would definitely enjoy walk around such nice view points 🙂
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