It’s been a while. In the three months since I last took my camera for a walk on Spittal beach, the wind, waves and weather have been at work. At the south end of the beach the bands of variegated sandstone, uncovered by winter storms, have disappeared under the sand again.
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Lower down the beach, sand and gravel have dammed channels between seaweed covered rocks, creating new rock pools. These pools may be ephemeral but at least one has already been colonised by sea anemones.
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At the north end of the beach, low tide reveals a new gravel spit curving out towards the lighthouse pier.
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On Spittal Point the sand dunes have been growing. Wild weather early in the year threw a up a deep bank of kelp which gradually trapped sand above the high tide line. In a few short months marram grass and other plants have crept out from the land, their roots stablilising the new ground they colonise.
The beach is always changing and reforming, sometimes with dramatic speed, more often with near-invisible slowness. It takes a lot of grains of sand to make a dune.
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August 2, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Welcome back!
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August 2, 2021 at 10:17 pm
Thank you!
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August 2, 2021 at 10:45 pm
Lovely photos, Judith. I really enjoy the text accompaniments as well. xx
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 22:05, Beyond the Window Box wrote:
> Judith posted: ” It’s been a while. In the three months since I last took > my camera for a walk on Spittal beach, the wind, waves and weather have > been at work. At the south end of the beach the bands of variegated > sandstone, uncovered by winter storms, have disappeared” >
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August 2, 2021 at 10:47 pm
Thank you, Alison.
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August 3, 2021 at 12:29 am
Loved the last line.
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August 3, 2021 at 10:37 am
Oh, how lovely!
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August 3, 2021 at 10:41 am
Always a pleasure to go back to the beach with you. I wish to alert you to my new blog. The link in my profile will lead you there. Welcome back.
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August 3, 2021 at 3:37 pm
Thanks, Manja. I’ve not been keeping up with blogs recently so I might have missed your new one. What happens to the old ones? It seems they hang around in mothballs until someone chooses to revisit but does WordPress keep them stored indefinitely?
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August 3, 2021 at 4:53 pm
It’s brand new. Hm… good question. I have my past blogs on backup, except the previous one. I must do it soon. I assume they will always be around, seeing that all my five previous one from the last 8 years are still available and intact, but probably this is not so.
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