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Grand sands (#44 in series: on “The Prom”, looking down from Mount Oberon)

Published February 10, 2025 by Pelidoug

Grand sands (#44 in series: on “The Prom”, looking down from Mount Oberon)

 

Wilsons Promontory is as far south – 39°00′48″ – as mainland Australia goes:

Its “convenient” location – a whisker more than 200 ks southeast of Melbourne  – ensures that a great many people do go to “the Prom”.

Still, if one avoids weekends and school holidays, and one gets more than a kilometre away from the National Park’s hub/quasi-town at Tidal River, one’s  “Prom” experience is unlikely to be afflicted by overcrowding.

Its magnificence is readily apparent, substantially intact, and there are many excellent and varied walking trails.

Both of this post’s photos were taken from the summit of Mount Oberon, 558 metres ASL

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Intertidal: #4 in series (Shallow Inlet – closer view)

Published June 22, 2022 by Pelidoug

Intertidal: #4 in series (Shallow Inlet – closer view)

Tidal sand/mud-flats present very different “faces”, depending on when you happen to visit them – time of day, as much as time of year – and also on how closely you look.

Yesterday’s featured photo was taken in the same location as was today’s, their two vantage points were a very short walk apart, and only a few minutes separated their shutter-clicks.

Nothing much had changed in those few minutes, but…

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Shallow Inlet trilogy (1 of 3 consecutive posts)

Published January 31, 2019 by Pelidoug

Shallow Inlet trilogy (1 of 3 consecutive posts)

Today’s, tomorrow’s and the final chapter’s single images were all taken within one half-hour, late on the afternoon of October 25, 2018.

On their “journey” from first to third photo my feet took only a few steps, on a single, nigh-horizontal strand, in almost-unchanging weather and light.

However, if you bend your knees, turn your head a little, and/or change your camera’s focus and/or focal length, one place and circumstance can yield three very different “worlds”.

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