The Meet
Today, I want to take you to a fairytale place called Lutruwita, better known as Tasmania. This “little" piece of earth is nature at its peak — forests straight out of a storybook, oceans that are a visual feast.
The tones, the colours, the textures, the smell. Tree lines that stretch into infinity, leading to places I never thought existed. Growing up, I believed every beach had the same formula: Ocean + Sand + City. But when the city is replaced by wilderness, something extraordinary happens.
It was December 2023. We'd decided to road-trip half of Tasmania in our small but reliable Honda Jazz. Endless roads, framed by nature and little towns. Everything was new. We met some adorable pademelons. Ate delicious food (especially the oysters — yum). Camera in hand, I snapped photos here and there — waiting for a detail, a shape, a scene that felt just right.
I think I was so in awe of the place that I actually forgot to take photos.
On our third day, we arrived at the Bay of Fires — go if you ever get the chance, it’s breathtaking — and I spotted this algae-covered rock with brilliant orange and red tones. I couldn’t quite frame it from the ground, so I sent the drone up and took a photo.
Seeing that shape from above — the cracks, the algae, the texture — it left me speechless.
That photo alone was worth the flight.
Lifted by that moment, we got back in the car.
The views rolled on — still beautiful, but starting to blur together.
And on a random stop, I thought: what could I see with the drone this time?
Took it out and sent it up one more time.
And there it was.
A moment I would’ve missed from the ground. The exact place where the river meets the ocean. A magical dance surrounded by trees. The textures. The colours. Nature in its highest form — wild, untouched, and utterly mesmerising.
That day, I witnessed something I had never seen before. And I captured it in a single image — one that might hang on my wall soon. Or maybe yours.
I call this photo The Meet.
It’s a reminder that some moments only appear when you look from a different angle.
“If you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.” — Errol Gerson
If you’re curious to learn more about this place — and the stories behind its name — I encourage you to visit:
https://tacinc.com.au/pulingina-to-lutruwita-place-names-map
