After a heavy cloud sunset the night before, with the low tide and sunset perfectly matched again, I decided to return back to the Dragon’s Head.
The attraction of low tide and sunset together at this spot, is the ability to capture the sea water as it returns from low tide, and specifically flowing over the cliff edge where the Dragon’s Head rock sits, and the chance of a beautiful backdrop of colour filled sunset sky.
It is no easy feat to travel this beach to the ideal photo point, where the angle of the rock shows it’s true Dragon shape. Your feet sink deep into this sand, with every step. You can’t even escape it’s sinking powers at the water’s edge, where you would usually escape to a firm surface. Then, you definitely need your shoes on, as you start walking on very jagged rocks of different shapes and sizes, molded by years of seas powerful waves. As you are getting closer towards the ocean, and the Dragon’s Head, something you can only do during low tide, you then find yourself walking on very slippery water filled seaweed, like small grapes, that covers and hides the rocky surface and it’s sometimes deep holes.. And, if you stay out there too long, you will soon find yourself walking back across this hazardous path towards land, in deep sea water as the tide quickly fills the whole area.
Add the strong blowing winds and salty sea spray, which you often get at most beaches, and it definitely makes for an exhilarating adventure where you put your expensive equipment, and your life, in the hands of luck or the God’s. Which ever faith you believe in most… Tonight I travelled this journey safely again, although only just, walking back in the near dark sky.
Tonight, I also had the pleasure of meeting and sharing time, stories, and pictures, with a lovely couple that had travelled many hundreds of kilometers to make it to this magic spot, and to tick it off their bucket list of Natural Victorian wonders.
