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Big Tree, Townsends Bluff

25/11/2020

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By Jackie Moss
 
There’s a special place on the Bass Coast that I approach with joyous anticipation every time I visit.

I feel like a kid again.

To get there is an adventure in itself.

I pass through the gates and walk beneath a canopy of tea tree; detouring off the track momentarily onto a sandy beach before following the boardwalk as it skims across the salt bush. On the bridge my shadow reflects into the dark tannin stained, still water of the creek.
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Pacing ahead, I veer right and then left, curling up a steady, heart pumping incline.
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I’m nearly there.

Around the bend a little way, and there before me stands the most magnificent big tree. Living and breathing, limbs encompassing. I can feel her, even without touching.
Here I can connect with nature.

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