Sandy Limestone

This is all about the textures and patterns created by wind, rain, and waves on the side of a bay in Australia. The rock is a sandy limestone … now as an ex geologist that ought to be a contradiction in terms, you get limestone from deposition of shells and skeletons in very quite conditions with now influx of sand or silt … otherwise you get sandstone with fossils … but Gaia has her whims and in this southern corner of Australia she specialised in sandy limestones. And this creates landscapes on a grand scale (12 apostles … now 7.5, Loch Ard Gorge and more) and on a very small scale in this corner of a bay. As ever, it pays to think and look at the detail sometimes.

And now I am off for a few days in my beloved Cumbria … a few thousand images I feel. See you when I’m back.

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