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view. In the immediate foreground, however, a small space is monopolised by another 
indigenous Tasmanian fern, apparently a species of Lomaria, notable for its production 
of diverse barren and fertile stalks, and for the characteristic coppery or even crimson 
tinge of the young, immature, plants and newly unrolled fronds. 
The snap-shot photograph selected as the concluding tail-piece to these 
Chapters represents a clash of incoming and resurgent breakers taken by the author 
at the “Causeway” on the outer or ocean beach at Bunbury, Western Australia. 
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“BREAK — BREAK — IRBAK- 
