Banky Beach is just one of the many beautiful beaches and coves in and around Bremer Bay, on Western Australia’s south coast.
By road, Bremer Bay is 180 kilometres closer to the preceding post’s location – Aldinga Beach – than is Albany.
From Bremer Bay, the drive to Adelaide is a mere 2,530 kilometres!
Aldinga is 45 kilometres south of Adelaide.
Western Australia has (by far) the longest mainland coastline of any Australian state or territory.
Even a modest amount of elevation enables one to discern – easily – a great deal that is invisible (or very difficult to “read”) to a person on the sands below.
(the reverse is also true; from the clifftop or coastal dune above it, a beach’s surface may appear to be simply an expanse of “naked” sand. An observant human on that sand is likely to encounter thereon a variety of living and recently-deceased organisms, plus an unpredictable assortment of inanimate objects…variously, scuttling, flying, burrowing, photosynthesising, stranded, uncovered)
Standing on Banky Beach, one is unlikely to discern the precise location of reefs and submerged rocks, the relative depths of the waters, the local presence or absence of dolphins, whales or sharks, shoals of fish, the full extent of the late afternoon’s shadow play…
From the clifftop/dunetop above it, however…
I took the photo at 4.29 pm on 17 September 2017.
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