Another Visit to Bruny Island

On our first visit to Bruny Island, we only just got the the southern part of the island. This, naturally, demands a second visit to see the parts we missed the first time. To give you an idea of the changeability and locality of weather here, you can see to the west of us that there is a rainstorm on the mainland. Meanwhile, there's no rain where we are standing.



Even closer to us, there are parts of Bruny Island that are getting some rain while we stand on dry ground.

But the clouds make for some dramatic skies. This is a part of Tasmania that makes everything special. Whether we are on Mount Wellington, bruny Island, or in the city, the dramatic sky is always over our heads and always changing.

On the southern tip of the island is a lighthouse surrounded by some pretty amazing landscape. If you look closely, you can just see the lighthouse at the top of the hill on the right.

One of the things we were surprised to learn is that the lighthouse keeper is a volunteer! She is living out here for 6 month by herself tending the facilities. Imagine living in this place alone and getting to see this in all sorts of weather.

Near the lighthouse, south of where the first image of the storm was taken, we can again see the storm to the west of us.

Nearer to us is the lighthouse on the hill.

The coast of the island looking east is also a pallet painted with blues and grays across the sky.

There is also a beach nearby. I'm fairly sure that neither you nor I want to swim here because the water is pretty darned cold. Nevertheless, standing on this hill overlooking the beach is very calming. It is quiet here. Only the wind and the very faint sound of the waves on the beach at this distance disturbs the silence.

This is one of the reasons I like to travel. I love to find places like this where I can feel the connections to civilization sliding off as you stand and take in a quiet scene where there is no evidence that people have ever set foot. The deserts in center of the country, the isolated coastlines of Tasmania, the rainforests in the far north and south, all afford opportunities for this momentary separation from the world. Sometimes when we are busy doing, we earn the chance to simply be. To be human.