I'm not really here yet however. I don't begin to until after I check in at Apollo Bay and I drive into a valley. Brilliant green, sheep-sheared hills and sunbreaks through the clouds make it glow. I'm chasing the sun. I'm on a gravel track above the river valley, green hills all around, gum forests below.
Bird sounds everywhere.
I pause and begin to take it in. The ocean is to the south, sun splotched in the last of the day. That's the disquiet. I see all these couples around me and I feel my singleness intensely. I want Robin here.