{"id":6219,"date":"2022-12-20T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjjc.net\/home\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2023-02-26T20:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T09:31:22","slug":"meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjjc.net\/home\/meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before the Seagulls left Denham we decided that we would spend Christmas together in Kalbarri. The drive from Denham to Kalbarri being close to 400km we decided that we would break it up with an overnighter at the Billabong Roadhouse<\/a> in Meadow<\/a>. But before Meadow<\/a> we took a break at Shell Beach<\/a>, located on the eastern side of the narrow neck, Taillefer Isthmus<\/a>, half way down the Peron Peninsula<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shell Beach<\/h5>\n\n\n
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Shell Beach<\/a> is quite an amazing strip beach that is covered in billions and billions and billions and billions of tiny white cockle shells each of which are no larger than a ‘pinky fingernail’. We often use grains of sand on a beach as a way to visualise large numbers but it is fair to say that Shell Beach<\/a> dose a better job of this because you can actually see each indivdual shell in relation to the expanse of the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From the parking area you take a short walk to the inland edge of the beach to discover that the beach itself is about 100m wide and 60km long. It is made entirely of shells, one of only two beaches in the world like this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The next thing you notices is the beach is contains a number of longitudinal ridges and furrows about 1\u00bdm deep. The ridges and furrows look like frozen waves as you crunch your way up them and down them to the waters edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The water, which is hyper-saline, is absolutely crystal clear. It is like rippling glass out to the point where it deepens and turns into the typical aquamarine colour of the area. The water and the shells are quite mezmerising to look at and the water begs you to strip off and take a dip.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Believe it not though… It was quite hot when we visited, around 40\u00b0C and the heat combined with the super-salty water was actually off-putting in terms of swimming. There were only a few people there with us and a couple did go in but they didn’t stay in long. You could almost hear the crackle of salt as they emerged from the water and dried in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n