Kilcunda Surf Beach

It never fails to amaze me how stupid parents can be. Kilcunda is a very dangerous surf beach. It is not patrolled and never has flags up, even at peak holiday times. There was a consistent large swell rolling through today, dumping on the beach viciously, of a size well over the heads of the three kids playing in the shore break. There is a rip moving left to right directly in front of them and it would be so easy for one or all of them to be caught by a dumper and sucked out to sea in that rip. All over red rover. I don't think that any parent these days can plead ignorance of the dangerous aspects of our surf beaches as there are ads all over the place, TV, radio, and newspapers, in the summer. I have surfed this particular spot many, many times over the years, and in fact, used to use the rip in the photograph as a way to easily get 'outside' beyond the surf zone. Used to call it "the escalator".
Anyway apart from the above example of sublime ignorance, the day was amazing. Warm with a tempering SW wind. Sunny. Ahhh, so good. I used my Nikon and iPhone to shoot from the Rail Trail Bridge. Very little processing of this shot - just basic stuff - thought that I would mix things up a bit.
My latest blog post featuring yesterday's series "the sea" is up now Here.
This last one is 15 pics long - the longest I have done thus far. I have attempted to insert a kind of simplistic narrative to the last two. Anyway, I have really enjoyed doing these last three series. Its terrific to focus on one concept or subject matter and explore this with the thoroughness that this technique, really, forces upon you.
Between the blip, the blog, iPA, FB, I need a break. No not really, its all great fun although at times hard work, and its good exercise for the grey matter.
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Much better bigger.