June 2024 - Marion Bay

We were lucky with the weather for our June walk. Wayne organised this one, and there were nine of us today - Wayne, Gerwyn, Maryanne, Di, Kat, Philip, Caroline, Warrren, Janet. We met at the Marion Bay carpark at 10am. The walk was timed to avoid being on the beach too close to high tide (2pm), as the beach (on one side of the peninsula or the other) can disappear at these times.

We have done this walk a couple of times before: Feb 2015 and Nov 2019. It's interesting to look back at the photos from those walks. By comparison, the spit has suffered erosion on both sides. The beach on the sea side, and the sand spit at the end, are much reduced from what they were, and there is more silt on the lagoon side.

There have been some big storms recently, and we could see the evidence with a lot of kelp washed a long way up into the dunes.

The beach was as beautiful as ever.

The recent big swells had washed a lot of juicy scallops up on the beaches, so we were looking hard for some of these. Sadly we found no scallops for eating, but there were some massive patches of beautiful shells scattered along the shore.

Most of us couldn't resist collecting a few of the beauties.

We stopped for a snack at the point.

And then continued around onto the Dunalley Canal side of the spit.

Back at the carpark again, we piled into our vehicles to go and look for a nice spot for lunch. We ended up at The Cannery on the Canal for an enjoyable seafood lunch and even more chatting. This is an easy walk, about a hour and a half, only about 7.5 km, with good options for post walk meals nearby.