Justin Heazlewood

My life is so wacky.

Like just living it is a trip.

Being back in Burnie, the last place I thought I'd ever move back to, and walking around going, oh, it's like day 305.

Like you're still here in Burnie.

What are you thinking and feeling?

I guess I'm on a mission of...

like connecting with the place as a grown-up and it does get exhausting walking around being nostalgic all the time.

So once I realised they'd taken the neon blue cross down from the house on View Road, I thought I'm going to draw a line there and there's going to be old Bernie of my childhood and there's new Bernie now.

I was quite determined to work out what I thought of the place now.

I lean very hard on the nature side of things.

It's got some lovely parks and reserves.

I really like ducks.

I like being around ducks, I realised.

I just think ducks are the best.

And seeing ducks go about their business.

Even picking up rocks off the beach that have cool stripes on them.

Burnie beaches have real funky kind of mod rocks.

I should tell you the little tale of finding a wedge-tailed eagle feather on a little bushwalk I did by myself in 2019.

And that felt so incredibly profound and meaningful.

And I know the Wedge-Tailed Eagle is an incredibly important figure in Indigenous Dreamtime stories.