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Grand sands (#19 in series: just east of Anvil Beach)

 

Anvil Beach sits at the end of the Nullaki Peninsula, just east of where Irwin Inlet (sometimes) meets Southern Ocean.

It is one of the more “choice” of many wild and wonderful beaches on Western Australia’s south coast.

The proverbial crow – flying in from Denmark, not many kilometres distant, to the northwest – could reach Anvil Beach in just a few minutes.

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Grand sands (#17 in series: fresh, clean, but “stained”)

 

After taking in the panoramic view across Thistle Cove – as featured in this series’ previous chapter – we walked down to the beach.

This post’s photos offer a closer view of the “stained” water and sand that were visible in the bottom right side of #16’s photo.

You are looking at a freshwater spring’s waters flowing onto the beach at Thistle Cove.

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Grand sands (#16 in series: “next door” to “the best beach in the world”)

 

By the shortest, sensible road route,  Esperance is a whisker under 700 kilometres southeast of Perth, and just under 400 ks south of Kalgoorlie.

A further, easy 50 kilometres drive, east of Esperance, will take you to “the best beach in the world”, according a 2023 list of “The World’s 50 Best Beaches”.

You are not looking at it!

This post’s photo shows the very next beach, westward; my beloved and I are not alone in liking it rather more than we do the adjacent, “best” one.

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Grand sands (#15 in series: Little Beach, before the squall hits)

 

One of life’s great pleasures: to stand in sunshine, watching a storm form on the far side of a bay or lake.

It often includes a superb, entirely natural “light show”.

It is especially splendid when one is standing on the sands of Little Beach, looking across Two Peoples Bay, to Mt Manypeaks.

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Grand Sands (#14 in series: Two Peoples Bay)

A few of my favourite things…

Unusually white sand that squeaks when bare feet walk across it.

Unpolluted, refreshing cool, brilliantly blue water.

Magnificent vistas in which other humans and built structures are nowhere in sight, or just a small presence in an otherwise natural environment.

Anyone who loves the above – especially when they all co-exist in a place that is not hard  to reach – will surely love the south coast of Western Australia.

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Grand sands (#6 in series: questions, with musical bonus)

 

 

Q #1: what is the pictured jellyfish-like fragment from a (presumably) recently-deceased marine creature?

A: I do not know.

Q #2: upon what has it “washed up”, in very shallow water?

A: sand, obviously.

(on Lights Beach, at eastern end of William Bay National Park, on Western Australia’s south coast)

Bigger question: what is sand, exactly?

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Peerless artist revealed (answer to previous post’s question)

Peerless artist:  nature.

Medium: fresh, unpolluted water – in this instance,  naturally infused with plant oils and tannins as it is river-rushed, and whipped by wind and waterfall, then briefly detained in the rock-rimmed pool immediately below the waterfall.

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