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.
From an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla along Esplanade Beach in Victor Harbor.
I was walking along the beach from the mouth of the Inman River to the Granite Island causeway. The new concrete causeway is nearly finished.
Another seaweed form in low light:
It was made in mid-winter--in July-- when it was wet and stormy.
I haven't been able to walk along the coastal rocks between Petrel Cove and Kings Beach this past week. There have been huge swells, large waves, and very high tides in the late afternoon. There has been no access to the rocks on the afternoon poodlewalks.
It's a pity because Suzanne has been travelling around the Eyre Peninsula this last week and I have been walking the 2 standard poodles. The coastal rock walk would have been ideal as the poodles are contained by the sea and cliffs and so there is no racing off chasing rabbits, foxes or kangaroos, which is what happens when we walk a back country road.
This picture was made whilst on an early morning poodlewalk with Kayla near Dep's Beach in Waitpinga:
It was lying close to some rocks, protected from the coastal winds.