Thoughtfactory: The Littoral Zone

The sand on the beach  at Petrel Cove in Victor Harbor comes and goes, and it does so quite regularly.  When the sand  is washed away during the winter months and only the rocks remain,  an old, rusty engine is exposed. 

My guess is that the  engine  was dumped  over the cliffs as rubbish quite some time ago. It's more than likely that it is  an old  car engine, rather than  a tractor engine due to its size.  Then the sand returns and the engine disappears from view.   The dumping  of household rubbish on the side of the back country roads is still quite common around  Victor Harbor and Waitpinga.

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Below is a picture of foam and granite along the coastal rocks just west of Petrel Cove on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. 

 It was made on a day  after the big storm in early May.  Though the  storm had passed  the seas were still surging and they  were too rough for the surfers.  The 2 metre high waves dumped,  rather than rolled into the shore.  

The picture  above refers back to this earlier  picture of foam as well as  to this one.   This is what the littoral zone looks like during,  or just after,  a big storm from the south west.   The foam quickly vanishes. 

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I am fascinated by the colour that I  often find in the Littoral Zone:

 It is here today and gone tomorrow. I only chance upon it.  

A later interpretation of the still life bird wing photoshoot:

Mde on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla. 

Made on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla: 

Kayla found the dead bird lying on Dep's Beach.  I bought its  wing back to some granite rocks just west of  Petrel Cove, which was still in shadow and set up an open air studio.