Random thoughts and observations
This picture shows pipes being laid at West Beach as part of the $23 million sand management project under the Adelaide Living Beaches Strategy.
The existing program of beach replenishment places 160,000 cubic metres of sand each year at strategic locations on southern and central beaches.
This maintains the sandy foreshore, builds up dune buffers, and protects coastal infrastructure.
When you live as close to the beach as we do it may seem strange to drive 82km to a beach, but that’s what we did today.
We went to Middleton on the Fleurieu Peninsula between Goolwa and Port Elliot. We took the Goolwa road from Mount Compass.
The town is mainly holiday homes, as far as I can tell, but apparently it has a permanent population of 818, according to the 2006 census.
It’s another grey day on the Carpricorn Coast, no rain again though. I read in a tourist brochure that Farnborough Beach is very nice and good for surfing. We had trouble finding it because there are no signs. Eventually I followed my instinct and a side road took us directly there. It wasn’t very inviting. [...]
The weather has cooled down a little. It was 32 degrees in Mount Gambier today, but Adelaide recorded its sixth day in a row of more than 40. We went to Cape Bridgewater near Portland again. This time I took the Lumix camera. I’m not keen on taking the Nikon to a beach. There was [...]
I’d fly to Kangaroo Island this weekend. South Australia is enduring a heat wave. It should be a lot cooler there, and if it's not I'll escape to the beach. This post was automatically published here from Plinky. From their own description: “Plinky makes it easy for you to create inspired content. Every day we [...]
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