Tim Winton

Male Speaker: Australia without a beach. It’s hard to imagine that.

Female Speaker: It’s when you look out at the ocean, there’s nothing. The expanse is huge. It gives you space, and just makes you feel relaxed.

Female Speaker: It relaxes me, brings me back to my childhood memories, and it’s a beautiful place.

Female Speaker: Well, today me and my uncle and my brother came to the beach. Do you like the beach, Tommy?

Male Speaker: Yeah. Yeah!

Female Speaker: Okay. I think he likes the beach.

Female Speaker: It’s mesmerising, isn’t it, the ocean.

Male Speaker: It’s very relaxing, It’s …

Male Speaker: It’s the sound as well that makes it very relaxing.

Female Speaker: I like the beach because there’s lots of sand that you can roll around in, and the water’s good and nice and refreshing.

Male Speaker: I like the smell. I like the sound.

Male Speaker: The beach is my life. I can’t wait for summer to come so I can get out here and spend time here. It’s where I feel I need to be.

Female Speaker: In a world with no beach, what would you do? I’d look at my clothes every day and think, “Why am I wearing these?”

Female Speaker: When I jump in the ocean I feel alive. I feel like I’m a kid again.

Female Speaker: With the little kids jumper on.

Female Speaker: When I jump in the ocean, I feel like I just started a new world, and I’m ready to be free, and just do all these sorts of things that I can’t do on the land, and …