Category: nature and travel

 

 

Schistosity is a thin layering of the rock produced by metamorphism that permits the rock to be easily split into thin layers or flakes.

(rocks with a high degree of schistosity are commonly known as schists. Typically, they have a “grainy” appearance)

Some schists look quite prosaic.

Others are very beautiful.

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Only a few metres away from the rock in yesterday’s post, this one also exhibits “a high degree of schistosity”, but its appearance is utterly different.

A deal of the “rockscape” on West Beach resembles a hallucinatory version of the Nazi coastal defences which were intended to make Normandy’s beaches “impregnable”.

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Strikingly evident in episodes 5 through 8 of this 10-part sequence is…

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If you stood just a little above West Beach’s high tide line, facing the Southern Ocean, and you then turned around 180 degrees to look at the slope behind the beach…

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Today’s image looks east, to the eastern end of West Beach.

I do not know why this is so, but, generally speaking, coastal heath on Australia’s western side appears to be in a healthier state than is coastal heath on Australia’s eastern shores.

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Today’s photo was taken less than 60 seconds after yesterday’s image.

This one looks south, across rock pools, to where the Southern Ocean reaches its northern shoreline.

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Wonderfully wild, yet easily accessible, it is a very short walk away from a sealed road, car park and picnic shelter.

This West Beach will definitely not remind you of Adelaide’s tamer beach of the same name!

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