This post’s and the previous chapter’s photos were taken within the space of one minute, from almost the very same spot on Yeagarup Beach.
For #4’s image I directly faced the Southern Ocean and deployed a telephoto (400 mm) lens.
For this chapter’s photo a wide-angle (32 mm) lens was pointed southeast.
As you can see, the mouth of the Warren River was very vigorous, thanks to a very wet winter.
Generally, the Warren has much less oomph.
Its mouth is often “closed” by a sand “berm”/“bar” which turns the river’s lowest reach into a lagoon,
However, late in 2025’s winter the Warren’s mouth had moved a considerable distance “up” (northwest) the beach and it was roaring into the ocean.
The river’s tannin-stained waters were “eating” into the coast-facing dune and reshaping Yeagerup Beach’s “river end”.
This was a very different place in August 2025 than it had been in October 2016…as you can see here