Tiny Pleasures #337: Sea Wood
I find it fascinating how the sea ages different substances. I don't know why the wood of the old jetty posts are black, but it's mesmerising watching tide wash over and leave the sand in different patterns each time.
Tiny Pleasures #336: Beach Snoozing
It's a beautiful day at the back beach at Queenscliff. While the water is a whisker on the chilly side, but lovely and envigorating. And the drying off in the sun on a fluffy towel is heavenly. The first swim of the season and summer has officially begun.
Tiny Pleasures #335: Seaweed Tree
What is this stick of seaweed doing pretending to be a tree? Standing so upright in the sand, its shadow falling on the smooth, washed sand. How deep are its roots? Does it have the strength to withstand high tide?
Tiny Pleasures #292: Queenscliff Lighthouse
I will never tire of walking the back beach at Queenscliff. This evening it was low tide and the beach was wide and flat. The birds were busy catching dinner, floating on the salty wind as the sun splashed gold on the water and the lighthouse high on the dune.
Tiny Pleasures #250: Winter beach
A sea urchin lies on the winter beach among the kelp, like a discarded Christmas bauble. The beach is not pretty at high tide in winter, instead it offers up a bounty of curiosities.
Happiness as Anarchy #248: Beach weekend
Sunshine, sand and smiles.Fish & Chips and icecream.Reading, eating, wandering.Kids, friends and seagulls.Sand, surf and sleeping in. This is not my boat.
Happiness as Anarchy #214: Toes in the sand
How beautiful is the feeling of sinking bare toes into the velvety dry sand at the first beach visit of Summer? I watched the sun go down over the bay today, the evening light playing games with the seaweed and spume, the shadows long. A big bank of smoky cloud on the western horizon eventually