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Inlet’s western shoreline (“Aspects of Waychinicup” #22)

 

The photo was taken at 1.57 pm on 15 March 2021, a little less than one hour before the one in #21 of this series.

#21 offered a telephoto view, focused on Waychinicup Inlet’s eastern shoreline, as viewed from midway along the inlet’s western side.

#22’s is a wide-angle (24mm) view, taken from the inlet’s northwest “corner”; it looks along the inlet’s western side, out to where the Southern Ocean meets the inlet.

The well-vegetated slopes, topped with dramatic granite tors, are the eastern flanks/lower ridges and slopes of Mount Manypeaks.

March 15, 2021 was a glorious, calm day.

If you zoom in on the photo’s far point – the rocks around which the ocean “arrives” at the Inlet – you can see just a smidgin of “white water”, well below those rocks’ dry tops.

On many days – not just stormy ones – the ocean is much more lively, and those rocks’ tops get well-wetted, as you can see in these images, from earlier this year.

Western Australia’s southern shores are very dynamic – you, your car and your camera can all cop a generous dose of “salt treatment”, even when seemingly “well away from” ocean’s edge.

Published in nature and travel photographs Western Australia