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View from West Head, Sydney

Lion Island sleeps like a cub between Angophora branches. Scratching among leaf litter, a Superb Lyrebird drags his regal feathers over ruined castle-rocks. In the tray of green-silk-water way-below, miniature curved triangles sail; and way down there Barrenjoey’s lighthouse is as little as a birthday candle – unlit. West Head is surreal: a giant-realm in balloon-blue skies. Tiny, far-off man-made things tinker at the edges – not important it seems.

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