By Stingray Bay

A Sunday afternoon in July by Stingray Bay
It is quite a showery and blustery day
In the depths of Winter the weather quite cool
For the time of year typical for Warrnambool
A weather temperature high for the day of fourteen degrees
With a wintery chill in the strong freshening breeze
But of the birds who do sing every day of the year
The warbling of the magpies is pleasant to hear
A large flock of silver gulls eating sea lice on the kelp by the tide washed on to the shore
There must be a few hundred of them there or more
Yet Spring from the south it is not far away
It draws a bit nearer with each passing day
The wind driven rain slanting down from a grey sky
On a windy Sunday afternoon in wintery July.