Swimming Rock Pools, South Australia: With numerous rockpools of differing depths and sizes to discover and explore in South Australia, Like Kingston Park, Moana Beach, Oliver's Reef, Aldinga Reef, Second Valley, Stokes Bay, Smooth Pool, Lady Bay...etc. These watery seaside treasure-troves are interesting places that offer kids and adults alike endless hours of fun discovering mini ecosystems and secret marine worlds at any time of year... Rock pools (or 'tide pools') are rocky pools by the sea. They are in the intertidal zone. They are filled with seawater during high tides and exist as separate pools at low tide. Wikipedia
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Visit Second Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia with me
Thank you wonderful peeps for participating. If you have some favourite places you would like to share while we are all stuck at home, simply post some photos and tag #WorldWindows2020 (tagging me also helps so I can add your Window to the list). Remember, your backyard is exotic to people on the other side of the world (like me).
Here is Nutty’s first ever edited video. Me and the family went out for a day drive and I had my new camera back in April 2017 and I played around with the video function. When I got home, I sat down and decided to teach myself how to edit video - this is one of the skills keeping me employed through this crisis, so I’m rather glad I did it.
But this is the first one, so it is far from perfect :D
Anyway, I digress. Welcome to Second Valley.
Before anyone asks, because they will :D, there is no First Valley :D That honour belongs to Rapid Bay, which got named after a boat instead. Colonel William Light, the surveyor and planner of Adelaide was the guy who was so inspired to call it Second Valley.
This is where you get to see the Fleurieu Peninsula from my last post in all its brown summer glory. the photo above shows the coast from Little Gorge through to Rapid Head (that big headland in the distance). Between here and there, there are three towns. Wirrina Cove (stupid resort with a marina), Second Valley and Rapid Bay.
Second Valley is a popular day trip and holiday destination to the point that I won’t visit it during holidays (too many people, ugh). This photo looks back towards Little Gorge from Second Valley.
The hills look brown and boring here, but they have some interesting geological formations hidden within them. Behind the jetty (as mentioned in the video), you can find folds of quarzite, phyllite, slate and marble. All very geologically complicated, but fascinating to see. I has a book! If anyone is interested :D
And, yes, I am a geology geek :D
Second Valley has a large rock formation that protrudes out into the Gulf and it gives great views up and down the coast. This shot was taken pointing south-west towards Rapid Bay. The pale turquoise of the ocean is artificial. Rapid Bay, for a long time, supported a limestone quarry which dumped tonnes of till off the cliff onto the coastline. It artificially widened Rapid Bay’s beach 250 metres. As the quarry ceased doing that in the 1980s the beach has eroded somewhat (though it is still much larger than it should be and feels just wrong) and the till has been dragged northward by longshore drift. Some of it is stopped at this rocky protrusion, but the limestone sand creates this swath of pale blue water. Rapid Bay is about where the dark blue joins the light blue in the photo.
Here is a shot of Rapid Bay beach facing east, back towards Second Valley. The original beach was at the treeline and the cave at the end of the beach towards the left, was an active sea cave which is now stranded.
On a side note, the above photo was taken in April 2017. On New Years Eve 2019, just recently, some idiots lit up that hillside. It was one of the smaller bushfires to hit Australia, but it still pissed me off. Here be video that can show you more of Rapid Bay, plus the hill on fire. ::mutters lots at idiots::
But despite all the alterations by human presence, the area does support lots of wildlife. I have photographed dolphins in the bays and fishermen love the place. And yes, I have literally hundreds of photos of Australian Pelicans from all over South Australia :D
