Connie

It is a perfect way to spend the last day of the year. I am in Redgate, the holiday home of one of my siblings in Margaret River, W.A. I am sitting under an open veranda with an unlikely cathedral-like roof. Around me is silence, except for an occasional chirping of birds and the swishing of the wind through the hundreds of gum trees around the house. Beyond the tree-tops is a perfect blue sky.

If I listen hard enough I should be able to hear the crash of waves against the Redgate rocks.

Later in the evening we will be heading for the Redgate Rocks to watch the sun go down the Indian Ocean . This gathering, to watch the sunset on the last day of the year on the Rocks, has become a tradition for those members of the family who spend the New Year in Margaret River.

The sun sets and we head back home to await the sun rising on 2011.