Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Coorong

Patrick, Stefano (a visiting PhD student from Italy) and I took a trip down to the Coorong National Park at the weekend. This was my first visit and I was blown away by the coastline. So much variety in wave energy and dune types all on one beach. From no energy in Lacepede Bay in the South to a very high energy environment at the Murray Mouth.  Hopefully it will make the perfect laboratory!

The Granites. The only rock on 194 km of continuous beach.

It's hard to fully appreciate the scale of the landforms here and the processes that drive their evolution.


Australia's second longest continuous beach.