Yes, I am still alive!
And things are finally improving as I get over the horror start to the year. Right now I’m working hard to get myself back on track again.
So while I’m busy doing the belated planning, organising and thinking that I normally do right at the start of the year, I thought I’d share a few photos I took a couple of days before Christmas while I was on holidays to spend time with my family.
These were taken in a very odd little town called Fisherman’s Bay which is on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia – just down the road from where my parents now live.
I spent an hour or so wandering around the town taking these photos while I was still very ill with bronchitis – which didn’t seem a good fit with the beaming sunshine and heat! But it was nice to be out doing something different and to be spotting new details around the town that I hadn’t noticed on previous visits.
The town is full of mostly very roughly built holiday shacks, many of which are quite old. For much of the year the town is mostly empty, given that there are very few permanent residents. However, after Christmas particularly it fills up with people who come to the town to relax and go fishing.
I’m not sure I’d find it especially relaxing as the place gets very hot at that time of year and most of the buildings look like they’d be impossible to keep cool!
Because of the fascinating ‘handmade’ type of buildings, the fact that the town looks like its from another era and also because it’s very often deserted, I find it a wonderful place to go and take photographs. It’s a bit like wandering around a film set, only it’s all real.
You can find more of these photos on Flickr.
