6048 x 4024 px | 51,2 x 34,1 cm | 20,2 x 13,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
24 mai 2024
Lieu:
Bay of Fires, Tasmania, Australia
Informations supplémentaires:
The vast emptiness of a white beach facing the Pacific Ocean of blending blue and turquoise colours on an autumn morning on the Bay of Fires, a few miles north of Saint Helens, a small town on the northeast coast of Tasmania in Australia, The Bay of Fires coastline stretches for some 50 km from Binalong Bay in the south to Eddystone Point in the north. On the dunes is a scattering of granite rocks covered with bright orange-hued a life form utilising a mutualistic relationship between lichens, seaweed, fungus and algae. The Bay of Fires was named by English-born navigator Tobias Furneaux a Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage in 1773 when he saw fires burning from his ship, HMS Adventure, along the coast, lit by Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Aptly, the area of Larapuna, (Eddystone Point) which includes the Bay of Fires, is the setting for one of Tasmania's first Aboriginal tourism ventures. At certain times of the year, pods of dolphins, humpback and southern right whales, migrate this area.
