Bermagui Sandcastle

A magical holiday adventure set against the sapphire coast of New South Wales. "I'm thinking I might build a sandcastle," Lienors told her brother, Kim. "A really good one; professional and comprehensive." Accordingly she set the theme for their winter holiday at the New South Wales coast, hardly realising at that early stage that what she was actually striving to build was not simply a sandcastle, but a complex and expressive world that was to be her personal vision of paradise. She...
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A magical holiday adventure set against the sapphire coast of New South Wales. "I'm thinking I might build a sandcastle," Lienors told her brother, Kim. "A really good one; professional and comprehensive." Accordingly she set the theme for their winter holiday at the New South Wales coast, hardly realising at that early stage that what she was actually striving to build was not simply a sandcastle, but a complex and expressive world that was to be her personal vision of paradise. She was indignant upon reaching her proposed site to find that "some damned kid's dug it up exactly where I was going to build; although that's not such a bad castle." she conceded' - except that, despite their appearance, the sandworks were not intended to be a sandcastle! Thus the two of them were drawn into the creation of a parallel ideal of an Australian Aboriginal boy who was forging his own, very different, tumultuous and apocalyptic conception through the same patch of sand.