Writing

Essays on place, culture and the spaces in between.

Coming Up For Air
Place Joel Beighton Place Joel Beighton

Coming Up For Air

I’m face down in the water, floating in rhythm with the waves. There’s a comfortable silence, broken only by the distant hum of a boat engine somewhere further out at sea.

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Byron Bay
Place Joel Beighton Place Joel Beighton

Byron Bay

The sun rises above the horizon, spilling gold across the sea and over the hundreds of pilgrims gathered at the Byron lighthouse. A middle-aged Italian man begins singing the opening lines of My Girl. Not an obvious soundtrack for a warm, cloud-free January morning, but a welcome one nonetheless.

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