Month: May 2022

In this, the final episode in this 25-part series, the featured image looks to the Inlet’s mouth, from a vantage point circa half way along the inlet’s western side.

Waychincup’s particular geology is the key to its singularity.

Waychinicup’s inlet is shallow and sheltered.

It is also dynamic, healthy, and reliably well-watered; low rainfall sometimes turns off the freshwater “tap” (i.e inflow from the Waychinicup River) but ocean waves and tides ensure that this inlet is constantly flushed/refreshed.

Solid granite cloaks a lot of Waychinicup’s upper slopes.

As a result, when it rains, a whole lot of water flows downhill, some of it into little gullies which briefly become rushing rivulets.