The highest ever concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is with us - NOW.

You would never know about this from the latest political pronouncments which do next to nothing about climate change.
What did Abbott say last night?  Nothing on this matter although I could not bring myself to listen to him but heard the commentary.   

On Lake Macquarie, yes, the yachties were 'dragging the chain'.  Sunday was breeze less and cloudless.

Winter approaches and the sun's rays get lower and lower on the horizon at Croudace Bay and all over.
House design is best that makes good use of where the sun reaches over the seasons so as to save energy and decrease the carbon footprint and save money over heating and cooling.  Insulation and water tank requirements are in place. Maybe more is leglislated. But that's just the start.
For instance, in this climate, it is madness to build a home with next to no eves to provide shade while designs that use passive solar heating and passive cooling and lessen dependence on air-con are quite possible and responsible as earthlings if we could break away from suburban conformity.

Tree house.

Lately our sunny days have been very very calm.  For a month now, while in several locations, windy days have been few and far between. It's the merry month of May.  Your cap does not get blown away as is usual on the coast.  On Sunday, the sailors on Lake Macquarie could have been disappointed while the picnic goers were very happy to find that their Mother's day lunch didn't need anchoring to the tables.

Prison chapel with the strangest ever fit-out.  Each person stood in their own tall compartment, a tall narrow door swung and divided them apart and one side of the room was divided from the other side. An old style choir and a preacher played over and over for us tourists.
Assylm. I doubt that women prisoners were held in Port Arthur. But has the system progressed?  Women are badly forsaken while in health 'care' according to the latest reports from Victoria. Is the report a game changer?  We must lift our game. 

Exercise yards in the 'boot camp' that was.

Words.  Game changer.  What a thing to say in connection with the extreme humanitarian disaster in Syria or about other serious problems.

Carefree tourists take a boat to places close by such as the Isle of the Dead and get a different shot of Port Arthur Prison. Quite a fun day. Port Arthur is a world heritage site 'rescued' after a lot of neglect and patches of demolition and change.

Words.  Seen recently: ozymandian grandeur. I'd never noticed that description before. Then in the more joyous incident some activity was described as outlandish which was nice to hear again for a change.
Read about ozymandian grandeur or not in Peter Hessler's Country Driving three journeys across a changing China. HarperCollins or The Text Publishing 2010.