Evening light, Whiskey Beach
Wilsons Promontory National Park (2002)

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea...

A day after resigning from my desk job in country Victoria, I packed the kit and hit the road with a friend for a few days of R&R. The original plan of hiking to remote Sealer's Cove was aborted after my friend developed food poisoning from his ghastly packet stew after our arrival. He was put to rest in the tent while I made merry with the cameras down the road.

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Whiskey Beach is a large arc of beautiful sand fringed by mad jumbles of huge granite boulders at each end. A great place for a safe swim, but the more studious types like me make do with taking the socks off and pottering around the delightfully gluggy sand looking for potential scenes. "Seek and ye shall find!" was never more true than here!

After quite a few false starts with the water coming in and moving out at all angles and speeds, I retreated a safe distance to watch proceedings for a few minutes, noting the position of the sun. After one particularly large tidal wash engulfed most of the lower boulders, it began retreating at an angle back toward the boulders and edging around them, making a number of depressions in the sand. This was my cue to get moving. The moment I placed the tripod in the sand I got that "sinking feeling", so the entire process of composing and capturing the image was expedited, and 'click': there it is.

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