Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Nature Notes ~ A Walk on the Beach


This is Second Valley in South Australia, a tiny horseshoe bay
with a short but, at high tide, a deep mooring place. There is a
white sand beach with interesting rocks and rounded green hills
around. The fishing is good and the play of light on sea and shore
quite spectacular. On top of all, the water is crystal clear right
to the deep depth at the end of the jetty.


A perfect place to sketch with charcoal from an old camp fire
on the beach


or go exploring along the rocky outcrops as the tide is going out.


Wildflowers inhabit any crevice they find and


limpets and other much smaller tidal sea creatures cling to
the rocks. These tiny invertebrates are less than one tenth
of an inch and smaller (click to enlarge), I could barely recognise
them and I was wearing glasses.


Flat, rounded stones that your hands just itch to fondle and
take pocket-fulls home. I resisted, but just barely. These days
my collecting is done by camera.


The striations on the rocks and the vegetation are enchanting,


as are the bees and butterflies.


and the view is a pure dream.



Thank you Michelle of Rambling Woods for this most gentle of memes.

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17 comments:

  1. what a wonderful place! thanks for giving us plenty of color and texture for our minds to play in!

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  2. Such a beautiful, breathtaking place!! Love your photos as always, Arija! And, yes, lots of color and texture to play with! Enjoy!

    Sylvia

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  3. I can smell the salt air. My, what a tranquil and beautiful place. Beautiful sketch! And YES, I would love to take home some of those stones. Good for skipping, I bet!

    Dearest Arija, thank you for your comment. You don't know how much it touched me. I shed a tear, but not because I was unhappy.

    Love.
    xoxo

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  4. What a gentle place to visit, indeed, Arija. So glad you invited me along! Have a blessed Easter. (((((hugs))) Jo

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  5. What a great place to walk and sketch. I feel like I was walking with you. Wish I was close enough to do so.

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  6. Sigh..as it snows and blows here, I was transported to the beach by you Arija... I have a charcoal sketch that my Mother did before she moved to oils...I love it...and yours too.. hugs..Michelle

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  7. Beautiful, Arija! Thank you for taking us to the shore for a peek of what was happening there. The light is very lovely in your photos.

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  8. Beautiful Arija! Tbeach scenes are always a favorite of mine.

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  9. Hello dearest Arija!

    You are the consumate nature photographer. Thank you for the bee photograph. I just used it as a model for the current drawing. I have been looking for bee photographs but none as appropriate and right as yours. So thank you. What a beautiful place. Tsup!

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  10. Texwisgirl

    thank you for being a friend and always leaving comments although I cannot always respond in kind.

    Sylvia

    yes, that little cove is like one perfect pearl the sea has cast up. Blogger is still playing up so please forgive me for not leaving as many comments as I would like. It is either blogger or the internet that drops, they seem to take it in turns.

    Bella

    Do come over with the girls and we can skip stones all day long.

    Jo

    thank you,I only wish I could share it in person.

    Carver

    how I wish that too, a joy shared is a joy doubled.

    Michelle

    I love sketching with charcoal, especially when found on site.

    EG Wow

    as you know, light is the essence of all things.

    eileeninmd

    glad to have struck a chord.

    Ces

    facilitating your art in this most minuscule way makes me happy. You know my photos are always there for you.

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  11. Texwisgirl

    thank you for being a friend and always leaving comments although I cannot always respond in kind.

    Sylvia

    yes, that little cove is like one perfect pearl the sea has cast up. Blogger is still playing up so please forgive me for not leaving as many comments as I would like. It is either blogger or the internet that drops, they seem to take it in turns.

    Bella

    Do come over with the girls and we can skip stones all day long.

    Jo

    thank you,I only wish I could share it in person.

    Carver

    how I wish that too, a joy shared is a joy doubled.

    Michelle

    I love sketching with charcoal, especially when found on site.

    EG Wow

    as you know, light is the essence of all things.

    eileeninmd

    glad to have struck a chord.

    Ces

    facilitating your art in this most minuscule way makes me happy. You know my photos are always there for you.

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  12. gorgeous post. Co-incidentally the word verification for this comment is 'sated'!! How appropriated :)

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  13. What a beautiful place to spend the day.
    Lovely things to explore and treasures to be found :)
    Beautiful photos and sketch ! :)

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  14. Second Valley is such a lovely place. You have captured it beautifully Arija.

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  15. I probably couldn't have resisted those stones. The photo of the bee is my favourite :)

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  16. Hi Arija,
    magnifiche foto.
    Happy Easter by Igor e Myriam :)

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  17. I just love your sketch. The photos are stunning as well, but it was the sketch that caught my eye.

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