Thoughtfactory’s Notebooks: The Littoral Zone

I have been going through the archives looking for material for a photobook based on this minor blog.  

This image is from the 2018 archives:

I have stayed away from walking the coast throughout  2025 due to the  toxic micro algae bloom  (which we knew as -Karenia mikimotoi)   in our coastal waters.  Ths algae bloom has  impacted some 20,000 square kilometers and about 30% of the coastline of South Australian has killed around a million fish.    We now know that this algae bloom is  made up of a mix of Karenia species (eg. Karenia cristata, Karenia mikimotoi, Karenia brevisulcata, Karenia longicanalis and Karenia papilionacea).  

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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. 

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Dep's Beach is one of the spaces Kayla and I walk to on our early morning walks. It's  a small beach that lies between Petrel Cove and Kings Beach, more or less  on the border between Victor Harbor and Waitpinga:

Most people walk across it as they walk along the heritage trail. Surfers--mostly young lads--- are its  most frequent visitors. They surf at the western end of the beach,  which is where the above photos was taken  during the recent very changeable weather.   

After spending  12 days on the road to and from Lajamanu in the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory I walked along Dep's  Beach on the morning after  my return to Victor Harbor.  This  is in the early morning light:

I was seeing differently. I would normally walk past these rocks in the sand

This  picture was made on the  morning before the return of the wild, stormy  weather:

I had walked past this spot many times on our poodlewalks but I'd  never really stopped to photograph it. This time I stopped.