Winter is now easing into spring.The light is changing, sunrise is much earlier, the sun is shifting more to the south and the light is becoming much more intense and contrasty earlier in the morning.
We continue to stay close to home apart from going on the Lavender Trail camps. The final one is one is in September at Clare.
We experienced a big storm front that swept across South Australia in late August bringing rain, wild seas and gale force winds. Maleko and I wandered along the coastal rocks on the afternoon after the storm had passed.
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.
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.
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.