By Bernie Bell

I copied the following text from the ‘Friends of the Cairns’ FB page…..  https://www.facebook.com/groups/398769848454325/

“The Cairns Excavations will return in Summer 2025..! We will be excavating for a bumper 6-week field season this year from Monday the 9th of June to Friday the 18th of July. We welcome visitors during the working-day and we will have a special open day on Friday the 4th of July. And folks, you heard it here first…this is the penultimate field season of the project! (The Cairns 2006-2026!).”

We missed The Cairns in 2024, but here’s our 2023 visit…..

 http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16370 

It’s an ace place.  

As 2025 is the penultimate year we’re determined to get there – and next year too if The Fates allow!

The Cairns – Sleeps

Our Dancing Floor is covered

The Well of Wishes – sealed.

Our place, so long neglected

Is starting to be Healed.

We’ll sleep – in Dreamtime

The winter weather through.

Next year – Sometime –

They will return.

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And then, we’ll wake

Our place will wake

To youth and light.

Red hair, dark hair

Gleam of light on bronze,

Beads, and benediction of burnished bowl.

We’ll dance again

Weave new life

For the land.

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They are Us

And We are They.

Namaste

BB 2019