Calm Before

Summer is officially here. The Solstice arrived, as it always does, on June 21.

For a brief period of time, the sun stood still. We aren't Stonehenge, but the Solstice Sun has its own time-honoured markers here as well. The big willow at the Main dock stands in for the capstones at the henge... and we have less crowds, so it's all good.

Before the sun crested the horizon, everything was softened by the morning mist. The sun soon burned that away.

The lake was a mirror. The trees and the ducks were perfectly reflected. .

This is the calm before the G8 storm hits the area. It's hard to grasp, on the shore of Lake of Bays at 6 a.m. that not far away one of the largest security operations this country has ever seen is swinging into action.

In Huntsville the National Aboriginal Day Unity PowWow got underway at 5.30 am with a Sunrise ceremony.

We were waiting on the arrival of guests, so we stayed at home, at Bondi, and greeted the sunrise with our own ceremony. Achmed and the Ducks were more than happy to join in.