Waychinicup’s inlet is shallow and sheltered.
It is also dynamic, healthy, and reliably well-watered; low rainfall sometimes turns off the freshwater “tap” (i.e inflow from the Waychinicup River) but ocean waves and tides ensure that this inlet is constantly flushed/refreshed.
Both photos were taken from the inlet’s western side.
At 2.41 pm on 22 September 2020 my beloved and I were perched on rocks which dropped straight into a relatively deep part of the inlet.
Here, where no low tide is ever going to leave them “over-exposed”/ “high and dry”, marine plants/“seaweeds” abound.
From the inlet’s northwest corner, we had just walked several minutes closer to where the Southern Ocean enters the inlet.
At 2.33 pm on 15 March 2021 – when I took the photo below – we were on the inlet’s inland-most, northwest “corner”, looking into the inter-tidal zone’s more placid, shallower waters.
