america party – Stilgherrian

14 July 202514 July 2025

Weekly Wrap 789: Podcasts! Three podcasts! (And another view from Granite Island)

A view from a hill on an island. In the right-hand foreground is a pile of massive weathered granite boulders, the upper ones coated in orange lichen where they’re above the salt spray, the lower ones washed bare by the waves. On the left and out to the horizon is the endless ocean under a grey sky. And in the upper right-hand background, running in about a third of the way in from the right of the frame, the distant shoreline ends in a lump of a headland, bare of trees.

My week of Monday 7 to Sunday 13 July 2025 was a podcast-productive week, with three episodes recorded and one of them posted. This was despite losing a couple of days to fighting off a cold or something. Such a good week. But the photo is from last week.

06 July 202506 July 2025

Weekly Wrap 788: I saw a kestrel on Granite Island

A view from a hill on an island towards the mainland, overlooking a bay. In the foreground just below us is a pine tree. Lining the shore opposite shore, across calm waters, are further pine trees, largely obscuring a small town. A track winds along the shore of the island around to the left, from where a low causeway connects the island to the shore opposite. The sky is cloudy, and in the distance there is gentle rain. All is serene.

My week of Monday 30 June to Sunday 6 July 2025 began in Adelaide, and we visited my birthplace of Gawler on Monday, and Victor Harbor and Granite Island on Tuesday. Bad weather in Sydney meant our return trip on Wednesday went via Melbourne and an almost-pointless overnight stay until Thursday, but here we are.