Editors mea culpa …… apologies to ‘Shoe, this was supposed to go in before the last episode …… sorry

Story and Poem (Photographs too) by Sandshoe

To trace back to find the story so far, see Episode 9: The Castle – Isobella and Suse

https://pigsarms.com.au/2014/07/22/the-castle-episode-9-isobella-and-suss/

Rangitoto Island (LHS) and its built causeway to Motutapu Island visible in the background of Browns Island.

53 volcanoes gave Tāmaki its raised and sensual form and cone islands at its coastline. Patterns of dark and light caused by shape-shifting cloud bend imagination this land is rising and falling and rising with breath and movement. 600 years ago Rangitoto erupted out of the sea. A group of footprints impressed in ash spilled on ancient Motutapu.

Motutapu!

you fed us when we were hungry
your shoreline gave us the ocean’s shells
our family ran to the place where the canoes were
we washed away in them.

a low tide combined with diffused light abstracts the coastline and sky one late afternoon.

Soundscape: Volcanic disturbance in a lava lake

http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/2156/mp3/147429_SOUNDDOGS__vo.mp3

Link to Map:

http://www.itsmybackyard.co.nz/areaplans/docs/Land%20and%20Water.pdf

20/1/2015