The Cattle Flats up the Brighton River.
1994

It took several weeks to time a clear sky with the light before sunrise, a heavy dew and the fullness of the tide up the river. Although I had permission to drive up to the farm house at any time it felt awkward at such an early time and I option for a scramble up the steep slope to the top of the hill taught me just how dew-laden the grass is at that time of the day.

The image shows the strange canals that drain back onto the river which can be seen cutting along below the hill. The Giant's Grave is below the white house on the far left and it is here the river like the road takes a bend back towards the sea. On the far right of the photograph on the left the Baxter house can be seen behind the third tree in from the side. Below is river road that runs from Brighton up past Duffy's Farm onto Scroggs Hill.

The River 1966   CP

It was dark
brown and deep
at corners where cattle graze.

Before sunrise, a soaking dew;
the beer brown somnolent wave
of brackish river, cattle flats beyond it.