Showing posts with label wreck beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wreck beach. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Wreck Beach Moonlight Head Beach for Sunday Best

 






Joel and I have journeyed to Wreck Beach on three occasions, each visit impressed upon us by the austere beauty and the peril of that lonely shore. Remote and forbidding, it is a place where the turbulent Southern Ocean pounds without respite, and where the rising tide swallows the sands entirely, climbing high against the sheer cliff faces and leaving no safe passage.

The path thither is no easy one. A descent of more than three hundred steps leads to the long strand, and from there the traveller must endure a walk of nearly five kilometres along soft and yielding sand, each step burdened by the pull of the sea winds. Yet at the end lies a solemn reward: the scattered relics of wrecks long past, anchors and iron fastenings now half-buried in stone and seaweed. These are the remnants of the Marie Gabrielle, driven aground in 1869, and of the Fiji, lost to these merciless waters in 1891. Once proud ships upon the trade routes, they met their fate here, on a coast that mariners dreaded and named a graveyard.

I have shared images of this place twice before, but in revisiting my photographs I felt compelled once again to dwell upon its memory. Wreck Beach is more than a strand of sand—it is a living monument to history, where the power of the sea and the fragility of man’s endeavour stand forever in stark and solemn contrast.


Panasonic G9

Olympus 17mm f1.2 



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Friday, July 14, 2023

Moonlight Head Beach for Skywatch Friday

 


This was one of the take I did in the past at Wreck Beach. I never seemed to get a decent weather there. 


Joel and I are planning to do this adventure again later this year. Mainly for astro photography along the great ocean road. Hopefully weather is better.


Panasonic G9

Olympus 17mm f1.2 


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Sunday, December 4, 2022

Anchors of the Marie Gabrielle, Wreck Beach

 


This place is really wonderful to visit. Problem is that the whole beach is immersed under the sea in high tide. It takes about 333 steps to walk down the stairs off the cliff and a 3 km hike along the rocks. 

In fact, this is also a popular astrophotography spot which I would not dare coming alone. 

Panasonic G9 + Olympus 17mm f1.2


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