Crossing our very nice next-door neighbours' land. A marker, looking east, showing a commonly encountered
challenge of this project: my route and the view forward obscured by trees.
Although reporting on the winter solstice journey so far has been all westward, eastern investigations have been occurring intermittently. I felt an urge, though, to get to the western point before an earnest journey toward the east.
The first part of the eastward journey departed from the starting point at a much more acute northward angle than one would at first think, passing firstly through our land, then across the contiguous bushland of our next-door neighbours. A good view is seen from their boundary across some neighbouring houses, the open area of council-owned land across the road, the creek and the ridge opposite.
Looking back from the east toward the starting point. The poplars in the mid distance are in line with my route and are visible from some distance..
I did not traverse the section occupied by houses and private gardens.
A marker of found objects was placed near the road. The marker bears a very close relationship with some of my other incidental found object installations. The blue glass and stone were found within a couple of metres of this site.
It's easy to reach the creek. A detour is then required in order to cross (pleasingly, rain lately has made this more difficult. It is crossable nearby if you don't mind descending a long and steep bank, jumping across and climbing the opposite bank, following a largely disused kangaroo trail through a large and spiky bush).Some weeks later, I reached the continuation of the route on the other side of the creek. A detour was necessary to pass private land and reach the reserve a little further up the hill.
Looking back toward the winter solstice starting point from the reserve on the eastern ridge.
The poplar trees noted in an earlier photo can be seen in the lower sunlit part of the photograph
My route crossing a fire trail on the eastern ridge. The sun is to the south of my route because two months have passed since the solstice.
Time of day is 07:55 (about an hour and a half past sunrise). Sunrise on the actual solstice would be seen from my starting viewpoint at about 07:25.
A marker. The starting point, not lined up exactly in this photo, is visible in real life on the sunlit ridge
between the parallel callitris trees in the middle of the picture.
Wide view of the prospect back to the starting point, which is below the not very prominent peak on the skyline.
It was very difficult to get a view back to my starting point from this section of the journey.
An unusual photo in that it indicates my presence, which is usually that of an invisible observer...
... or so I like to imagine.
Finish point on the eastern winter solstice journey. Close to the top of the eastern ridge.
Someone else's collection of pieces of quartz provided material for the marker.
An exciting exploratory return trip followed the arrival at this point. That's another story; but it is a feature of this project that small, unexpected explorations and adventures are a very pleasureable part of it.
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