My favourite place in my home region of the Fraser Coast is Fraser Island, in particular, the iconic Seventy-Five Mile Beach. Being there has a way of calming and centering my soul. I love driving up the seemingly neverending beach, gazing over the waves, marvelling over how the water changes colour from pale aqua to turquoise to indigo blue. I love watching the incoming tide, the way it meanders over the sand, inching ever closer to the high tide mark. I love walking in the waves as they lap the shore and pausing to look for animals in the water. Most of all, I am enthralled by the waves as they curl and splash in a flurry, throwing white foam into the air. It is these feelings and experiences that I and many others have on Seventy-Five Mile Beach which I have endeavoured to portray in this painting.