Brown beach

Dec 11th,2010 by Sai pradeep 

I caught up with a friend today who doesn't live too far away and we decided to head down to the beach, as it was going to be warm.  She was keen to check out Seaford beach as I'd been going on about it in the past and she wanted to see it for herself.  

As we headed up the same path that I've walked up hundreds of times, I could see the old tree was still standing. That's always one of the first things I check for at the start of every Summer season. (though this is an old photo, it's missing one of those limbs this year & it's looking more haggard).

As we headed over the little rise we could smell a brine like smell.  Then we noticed the water was brown.  Ew.  I've never seen this in the whole time I've been going to Seaford, which is probably 15 years or so.

Upon closer inspection the water was full of mashed up seaweed.  The waters edge was absolutely littered with dead stinking pippies, shells and weirdest of all, arms of starfish (do starfish have legs? Maybe there were legs too!).  I have no idea what has caused this but I really hope that this stink and muck clears out before proper Summer begins.  Or I'm going to have to find myself a new beach to frequent.

After a snooze on the beach we headed into the town centre for some lunch then sat on the end of the pier, soaking in the glorious weather and ignoring the dim-witted boys that really should have been at school.  It was superb.  The brown water seemed to continue right until Frankston, but I noticed that it wasn't at the mouth of the Patterson River.  Hmmm.

Of course the weather is changing, as I type, so the weekend doesn't look too brilliant.  This is my last free weekend as I start work this week and my weekends disappear.