Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
Oh deary me! what a dilemma. Did you offer to swim out & retrieve it for them Joan
ReplyDeleteNothing worse than being up the creek without a paddle.
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ReplyDeleteHope for their sake that the tide was coming in!
ReplyDeleteI didn't hang around to find out its fate. It was certainly heading off to the sea but not rapidly so there is a good chance that they rescued it. And I sure wasn't going to volunteer to go for a splash.
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