Air Force One Sunset on Derby Pier

Ok so the first picture is for The Lloydes and in particular Anne as she told me there’s no way I will keep my Nike Air Force One clean. Well I climbed down some rocks to get a setting sun photo at Derby Pier and put my foot in the mud. Doh! If it wasn’t for the unique light weight cushioned design of my beloved Air Force One, I would have sank and become a mud crab.

We decide to walk the 3km to the pier for sunset following a bitumen walkway with mud flats on either side. On the way up to the pier, there one of those outdoor gyms in the middle of nowhere so we decide to stop and get fit! This must be one of the most remote gyms on the planet and no membership required. After completing 50 unassisted chin pull ups and Jen doing lat bar raises for 30 minutes continuously, we decided that enough is enough, we could have worked out all day in the 30 degree heat...

We finally reach the pier cafe and quite parched, I get a blue tongue slurpy which even in the heat freezes my brain and Jen gets a nice cold milk shake.

There’s fishermen on the pier catching... well nothing much and people grabbing mud crabs down below in the shadows. A couple set up their deck chairs on the pier and crack open a bottle of fizz, obviously a sunset celebration moment. From behind, a big croc... whoops sorry, let my imagination go for a moment there, another couple arrive and surprise the female as it’s her 50th birthday. She is elated with joy and the friend a enjoy a special moment together.

I climb down the rocks as sunset is always best with a bit of perspective and something of interest to contrast the sun. It’s a great angle to get the pier from and then I take one Nike step too far and into the mud.

We leave as soon as the sun dips beneath the horizon as we have a 3km walk back to camp and this time of the year, sunset is like flicking the light switch off.Read more