Quallup
Quallup Beach
Southern Coastal region
Western Australia
(Click on the first image for a slideshow view)
melissadrummond
Western Australian freelance photographer. Documentary, environmental portraits & photo essays. Digital and analogue. From the desert to the sea.
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While the sand is whiter and finer,this beach reminds me a lot of the ruggedness and messiness of Tasmania’s west and north-west coasts. Its wild and windy and a ‘hoody’ is a must. I love how you ‘document’ the beach = its patterns, its rubbish, and its warts and all. The human impact on even the remotest beaches is staggering.
I found this link:
http://beachsafe.org.au/beach/wa0168#tab4
Thanks Lisa. That’s what surprised me – the amount of rubbish that was on the beach, either left there or washed up. I picked up as much as I could, considering it was a bit of a hike out of there and I had to cart it over rocks and up a steep dune. You would have read about the CSIRO’s study of rubbish on beaches?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/australia-dirtiest-and-cleanest-beaches/5382134
It came out just after we went to Quallup. Just staggering, as you said, and horrifying. Take your rubbish with you, people!
Thanks also for the Beachsafe link – there’s some interesting info about the geology in there. I think the colours, especially of the granite, reminds me of photos I’ve seen of Tassie. I will get there one day x