A Dawn of Balance and Renewal
This morning Mallacoota woke beneath a sky on fire. The lake glowed like copper as the first light broke across the Howe Ranges, while the Gabo Island lighthouse was still flashing in the distance. Behind us, the full moon had just set — and tonight it will rise again, stepping into eclipse at the edge of the equinox.
It’s a rare alignment: day and night in balance, sun and moon sharing the stage, and spring pressing through the last weight of winter.
🎶 The Song: Springfire
I wrote Springfire to capture this moment — a ballad of cycles, change, and renewal. It carries Cajun flavour with squeezebox and fiddle, grounded in indie folk roots. The lyrics rise and fall like the tides: winter giving way, sunrise burning bright, and the moon returning red.
This video includes two live-feel performances of the song, each raw and unpolished, set against the backdrop of Mallacoota’s 4K dawn.
“Springfire, rising in the east,
burning through the cold, setting colour free.
Springfire, let the morning sing,
the year is turning, feel the season breathe.”
🎥 The Video
👉 Watch the full 6:30 video here:
The drone footage sweeps across Mallacoota Lake, sandbanks glowing in molten light, inlet stretching to the sea, and the township still wrapped in shadow. Every turn of the camera shows another layer of the story: the lighthouse, the fading moon, and the east erupting in colour.
🖼 Photo Gallery
(Insert selected sunrise stills + the 360° panorama)
Sunrise over Gabo Island with lighthouse still flashing
Lake glowing red and gold at low tide
360° horizon view — dawn in the east, night fading in the west
🌍 Reflection
Mallacoota has always been a place where sky, water, and time meet in plain view. On mornings like this, you feel how the cycles of sun, moon, and season are not distant — they are lived here, in the inlet and the tide, in the town and the hills.
Springfire is a song of that cycle: balance, turning, renewal. A reminder that nothing stays the same, and that’s what makes every dawn worth rising for.