Wednesday 25 June 2025.

Fallen dead trees on the beach

Priya and Joan on he track

Priya, Joan and Mary on the boardwalk

Sand hills

The bay with yachts on their moorings

Photos courtesy of MaryT.   Walk report courtesy of MaryT.

A very windy day did not detract from the morning walk in bright sunshine along beaches and forest tracks to the boardwalk which runs alongside the Cullendulla Creek. Walk leader Joan had researched the area pointing out interesting features along the way. Although we were blown along the sandy beaches, once on the tracks behind the sandy beach we were sheltered as we made our way to the boardwalk. Of especial note were the large fallen trees laying in what we thought the wrong direction. We voiced a few ideas as to how their giant root balls ended up laying towards the water as they had grown on the grassy bank and we felt should have fallen with the canopies laying that way or much higher up. One theory was that perhaps the huge seas over recent weeks had dragged the trees onto the beach. We noticed manmade piles of sand in an effort to protect houses on the edge of the beach from the sea, so maybe the trees were moved into place? The beach was strewn with thousands of tiny shells and a pair of Pied Oysters fossicked around on the rocks for a morning snack.

I was very pleased not to have been deterred by the weather as the morning proved to be delightful but in the surrounds and the company. Thank you Joan.