Happy place #fmy52weeksofmemories

I may be a week late on this one, I think, but I am only just getting around to posting about it. I have decided to have a crack at doing Toni's 52 week photo challenge, and it will be a challenge to keep up. I considered the FMS photo a day for about two seconds at the start of the year, but yeah, photo a day. I might just bite off a photo (or in my usual style, several photos) a week.

I have lots of happy places. Most of them involve pure nature. Chirping birds in our gum trees in the morning, strolls around nature reserves and of course the thundering sea. Any beach will do, it doesn't have to have thundering waves, but it helps for coaxing all my worries away.

We went for a drive to Canunda to look for cockles in the sand. We found one. It was still an awesome outing. We saw a dead pilot whale on the beach. Bit sad. On a more populated beach, it would have been big news. On this lonely stretch of sand, when a whale beaches, or washes up, no one is there. It dies with no fanfare.

Atop the big sandhill and the road home

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Digging for cockles on Geltwood beach, Canunda National Park

Doing the twist brings the cockles up to the surface :)

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Where I go to relax

My place in time #10

This is where I go to relax, to think, to revive. It's here that all my tensions are pulled from my body by the thundering sea. Where the fresh sea air cleanses my thoughts.

It's where I go when something big has happened, and I need some time for my brain to process it.

When I was nearing the end of my pregnancy with Jake, which I was told off for. I didn't tell anyone I was going and I was far too preggers to be walking sandhills alone. I shrugged it off. I think it was the week before I was mowing  the lawn, what could a walk on the beach do? This was the days before mobile phones, ones that would fit in your back pocket anyway.

I came here and walked alone when I found out I was preggers with Izzy, and just the past weekend, on Saturday. Brett took the girls out and I needed to go to my place by the sea, on my own. 

Friday I fronted at the doctors clinic. I have depression. I've known it for a while but let it slide. It wasn't getting better, wasn't going away, so I am now in the process of healing myself. I will be OK. Like the Pantene ad, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen.

These are the photos I took while I was there, I was happy taking photos, being with myself. A good thing, considering I had a blubber on the way because I forgot my jacket. Silly. I didn't need it anyway.