Following on from a Facebook post by Michael York we went to Quarry Beach this morning to see how it looked. The short answer is, like many English beaches with lots of rocks and a few patches of sand. In fairness this was just after high tide (~1100 hrs) so there may have been more sand at low water. The first image is below the car park.
This is most Easterly part of Quarry Beach with a wee cave and some excellent stratification. My guess would be at least 1m of sand has gone from here.
This is about 200m West of the car park. Well over 1m of sand has gone from here.
Something washed up. Possibly a sponge?
A size 10 wellie toe to give a scale.
Many other conventional "loofah-structured" sponges were washed up.
An artistically posed sponge!
The artistic sponge in close up
A landslide!
Creek erosion
Quite a lot of kelp was washed up close to the waterline.
This is the far Western end of the beach.
Here are in a few other spots along the way, the seaweed washed up well clear of the water was some species of bladderwrack (
Fucus sp.).
This is not a bird rich beach but there are usually some Pied Oystercatchers around. Its not unusual for at least one of them to be flagged. I've seen this one twice before in the last year (it was first caught at Corner Inlet in 2013 and one month later was at Mallacoota).
Quarry beach usually migrates seasonally, not sure where it goes, but with winter/spring storms usually the sand comes back for summer (or has done the last few years). Amazingly the large rocks that are revealed are quickly covered in bright green weed. And at low water a couple of week or so ago we noticed someone had long ago bolted little squares of synthetic grass (about 6 inches square) to a section of rocks (about 10 patches in all) to which absolutely no marine life had attached. Maybe you can solve the mystery?
ReplyDeleteIs the voodoo doll still there l the rosge before the cave?
ReplyDeleteG'day Ben. I'm not sure what a rosge is! But have seen nothing a recognise as a voodoo doll.
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