I have seen the most beautiful sunsets in Africa but The Sunset Coast in Western Australia delivers some beauties too! So I thought I’d share a few from my travels and a poem I wrote when I was very young living in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.
(Can’t credit this as I have no idea who took it, but it was shared on the Great North Road website and is so typical of sunsets I saw in Africa.)
African Sky
heat of the day
cool of the night
clear blue sky
such a beautiful sight
trees so green
(greener than I’ve seen)
earth rich and brown
rain pouring down
to make the hour cool
like diving in the pool
when the heat gets you down
then the coolness of night
with stars shining bright
but before they appear
comes the scene held so dear
there’s no more exquisite sight
than day changing to night
and the reds and the golds
which appear in the folds
of the African sky
when night is nigh
Frances Macaulay Forde © 1968
Dingle, Ireland on our trip to the Cliffs of Moher. FMF© 2003.
I live just off Ocean Reef Road in the Northern Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. That’s between Hillarys and Mindarie on ‘The Sunset Coast’ which stretches from “Cottesloe and includes the Scarborough precinct, Trigg Beach, Hillarys Boat Harbour, Mindarie Keys and Perth’s northernmost beach at Two Rocks “ (Wiki).
Sorrento Beach on an evening walk. FMF © 2004
Cottesloe Beach – driving from Fremantle to Ocean Reef. FMF © 2005.
The sky is on fire! No, simply a sunset, taken from our back patio looking west to the sea. FMF © 2006
Aren’t I lucky!
Here’s a professional photo – beats mine but available for purchase.
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very cool!
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Thanks Jaymez, I just wish I was a better photographer, like my sister-in-law at http://perthdailyphoto.blogspot.com.au/ She does a much better job.
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