The macro picture below of cuttlefish shells is from a recent poodlewalk amongst the coastal rocks with Maleko. It was in the late afternoon just prior to the Xmas/New year holiday break.
I was on the lookout for dried out salt ponds amongst the coastal rocks at the time. However, as the weather had been cool, overcast and windy, with only the odd bright, sunny days with high temperatures, the salt ponds were few and far between.
I've been going the archives of what I call my macro photographs.
The picture below was made about the same time (circa 2019) as the images on this post on Thoughtfactory's photo blog and with the same macro camera equipment. It was the colours of the quartz that initially caught my eye. Then I saw the seaweed strand lying across the quartz vein.
I thought that this moment wouldn't last very long, as the coastal wind would quickly move the shape and the line of the seaweed strand, then eventually blow it off the quartz. So I quickly made a photo.
I was on a poodlewalk at the time, and I was looking for some dried salt ponds among the granite rocks to photograph. We would have been walking in the late afternoon.
On the Esplanade Beach in the early morning around sunrise.
It has been a while since kayla and I have walked along this beach. We have returned because the grass seeds in the bushland are all pervasive.
This granite formation on the foreshore is just west of Dep's Beach, which in turn, is west of the more well known Petrel Cove.
It has been a wet and stormy spring during September, and we have tended to avoid walking along coastal rocks because of the gale force winds and the frequent squalls. The poodlewalks have been driven by the need to seek shelter in the local bushland from the squalls and wind.
On the few fine days we have had we have walked along the coastal zone. The light has changed with daylight saving and the light is still intense and bright at 5pm. This photos was made just before daylight saving. I sat on the rocks and watched the big waves surge across the rocks
It was only the occasional large wave that surged over the rocks. So I had to be patient, wait, and watch the sea.