This photo was made in December 2022 whilst I was on a late afternoon poodlewalk with Maleko along the coastal rocks in Waitpinga:
The shells and feather were there one day, gone the next. They vanished due to the high tide and the surging waves from the strong south westerly wind.
The macro picture below was made in the early autumn of 2022 when an occasional low tide made it possible to walk with the poodles along the coastal rocks of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in the late afternoon. It is a followup to the picture in this post which was made around the same time.
It was not often in autumn that this kind of seaweed was left stranded on the rocks from the tide. The rocks are usually clean.
These coastal walks were micro ones that are similar in form to the micro bush walks. An hour's duration, slow walking, concentrated seeing, making photos.
Autumn has arrived at Encounter Bay. I've started to return to walking amongst the coastal rocks with Maleko on the late afternoon poodlewalks. This return happens when there is some cloud cover, the light is soft and there are photographic possibilities.
These walks are still infrequent. The morning cloud usually disappears during the day and the afternoons are clear and sunny. The strong coastal winds that marked the summer months have eased.
The winds along the coast of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula have been gale force before and since Xmas --south-westerlies with gusts that are often over 50 kph. So I have avoided walking along the coastal rocks apart from brief excursions:
These coastal excursions have been in the afternoon with Maleko spite of the winds as I avoid walking in the local bush to avoid the brown snakes.
An exception to the above routine is walking with Kayla along Esplanade Beach from Kent Reserve to the Granite Island causeway in the early morning. This is either prior to the wind coming up or when the coastal winds are lighter.
Then the focus is on the textures of the seaweed and the sand.
I have stayed away from walking amongst the coastal rocks. The cold, south-westerly winds have been continual and persistent. Some of the gusts have been close to gale force. I haven't been making many photos along the littoral zone as I have been walking in the bushland to shelter from the wind.
It was only occasionally during the late spring month of November that I would do the coastal littoral zone walk with a camera in the late afternoon: --- the conditions were that the wind had dropped, it was overcast, and there was some warmth.