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Grand sands (#51 in series: “sur la plage” at Goolwa, South Australia)

 

Vive la différence!

Goolwa does not aspire to be “the Saint-Tropez of the Southern Hemisphere”.

No wannabe “Brigitte Bardot” is ever likely to strut, mince or pout her way along this strand.

“Chic” and “Goolwa” are two words I have never seen or heard within the same sentence.

However, I am sure the “relaxed and contented” index is very much higher on its ocean beach than on any “Riviera” strand.

Something unimaginable in Saint-Tropez: unselfconscious, “bottoms up” persons, extracting delicious bivalves from the sand.

From November through May – pipi season – they are commonplace on Goolwa’s (lovely, surprisingly wild) Ocean Beach.

I took the photo at 2.29 pm on 16 December 2018.

Click here to discover more about pipis, aka “kuti”, “Goolwa cockles” and “Coorong Cockles”; humans have relished them for at least 19,000 years.

Clicking this will yield much more info, and good videos.

To discover how/when/where you are allowed catch pipis/kuti in South Australia, click here.

 

Published in Australia (not WA) nature and travel photographs

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