Fowler's Bay

Our next break was a visit to Fowler's Bay. We left the highway on a sealed road, but that soon ended and we entered the small village on dirt.



This part of the ocean south of Australia is call the Australian Bight. We are west of of Tasmania so the next stop headed south is Antarctica.

The shoreline is not a place that seems inviting for swimmers. It is covered with dried seaweed and, well, lumpy. There is not much a stretch of nice smooth sand, at least here in town, where you could have a nice walk. Nevertheless, it was a pretty and interesting place.

Here you get a good look at the lumpy pile of seaweed that is the beach.

Just west of "down town" start a long series of sand dunes that give the place a feeling of isolation from the mainland.

We drove around to the land side of the dunes for further adventures, but even from this side they are impressive. It is curious to see the field of spinifex and whatever else is here (some sort of succulent I think) that we see in desert places elsewhere growing here, just off the beach.

But there is more to see in Flower's Bay that just sand, seaweed, and water. Stay tuned.