Australia Day: 26 January Ah ... Antipoedian Technicolour Fish, Boon(ah) & Moon(ah)

Tropical glory described by Leo Schofield, Tasmania’s new Bohemian culture invaded by Steve Lazarowitz, Boonah’s innovative winery created by Bob Carroll, and now European tourists setting feet in every part of South East Queensland ... is there any soul Australian beauty can't attract?
Today Antipodean Cultural Commissair, Leo Schofield, describes Nature's tropical glory. And when Leo sings even deaf Parisians and New Yorkers take notice:
I feel ashamed to admit that in my long lifetime, I've never visited the Great Barrier Reef. Here, on our doorstep, is a work of nature to rival the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China or any of the other wondrous achievements of man, yet dills like me ignore it.
I took one of the regular Quicksilver trips out to the reef and was gobsmacked – not only by contact with this miracle but by the efficiency of the aforementioned tour operation. There are many places in the world, from Benidorm to Bournemouth, that have been irretrievably rooted by tourism.
Visitors to the Reef, however, can feel they are treading lightly on this extraordinary and beautiful place. My only regret is that I have no stomach for scuba diving, otherwise I'd have been down there taking an even closer look at the spaghetti coral, the plate coral, the staghorn coral, the turtles and the technicolour fish.

Steve Lazarowitz, a science fiction friend whose paths I crossed many times, gets a second creative breath for writting at Tassie.
It has been all too long since I’ve written an issue of my newsletter. Too much has happened that, in the words of Arthur Dent, seemed to make some sort of sense at the time. These events led me from New York City to East Peoria, Illinois to Fresno, California before finally leaving me at my current location; Moonah, Tasmania.
· Steve’s Newsletter is from Moon [Dream Sequence via Blog city]