Category: nature and travel

This post enables you to see how West Beach sits within the expansive landscape/seascape of Fitzgerald River National Park’s eastern section.

(the western section is quite different, and equally splendid, but “the Fitz” is huge…so even the view from atop the Hopetoun end’s best vantage point will only give you a view over the park’s eastern section)

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This series’ concluding image was taken at 2.42 pm on 20 September 2021.

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This series’ penultimate image shows the western end of West Beach.

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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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