Beach Finds

The first thing I noticed about Western Australian beaches is how clean they are. There's the odd plastic bottle or can washed up or left on the beach, but looking along our local beach there is just a bare expanse of sand with a bank of seaweed.

To be honest I find it quite boring! I love beachcombing - and the UK must have the best beachcombing beaches in the world. I suppose it's because the seas around the UK are so busy and all the little coves and inlets around the coastline catch all the treasures that are washed up.

Here, we're a long way from anyway -  4885 miles due West is South Africa....that's a long way with nothing in between!

So, I've had to start looking for other treasures - no sea glass or pieces of pottery here - natural treasures are the way to go -

Beach Find

I love this Clamshell book from Odelae on Etsy - such a good idea!
I'm off to tidy the house for a viewing this afternoon - have a great weekend everyone!

Sea Glass

This weekend's beachcombing finds- Bill found the bottle stopper -we were very excited!

Fragments

Today we went to my secret Cotswold beach combing spot - if you look very carefully in this certain stream you can find loads of tiny fragments of pottery - every time we go there are more of them - I don't know where they came from, but I love finding them.

Le camping

A few more camping essentials - extra strong tent pegs, spare guy ropes, wellies, earplugs...
The nights were pretty wild and windy but the days were lovely and clear -

Skimming stones at Combe Martin

Parked up at Putsborough

Grumpy camping dog

Lovely black rocks

A solitary winkle

Mysterious initials found on the beach...

Cottesloe Sunset

After the smallest Moody's birthday party, we headed to the beach to chill out a bit... the sun sets at about 5.30 here at the moment so we caught a beaut sunset (see - I'm getting the hang of the lingo :)
And apologies for the wonky horizons...

All washed up

Loving this jewellery range made from washed-up flip-flops, driftwood and pebbles by Emma Lamport - available to buy from Coastal Creatives here.