Sue Elscot Elscot, Atoll in the ocean (April theme: Seascape)

This is the sand cay at Scott Reef, 270nm off Broome, Western Australia, in the middle of the Timor Sea. Surrounded by the most beautiful turquoise lagoon and fringing reef, this small sand island is Australian Territory, and is a place that boat refugees hope to land at seeking asylum in Australia. Remote and desolate, yet strikingly beautiful,

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