Continuing on the theme of the wonderful photographic subjects to be found on Cape Hedge Beach, Figure 1 is an image that I took of granite “pebbles” or stone strewn along the beach. As I have mentioned before these come from a mountain of stones from the huge refuse pile that came from ship ballast deposited there by returning ships, ready to take the next load of granite around the world. Where did these stones come from? They are mute, but what stories could they tell?

These are of such wonderful variety that you can start your walk with a view like “today I am going to find the most perfect red pebble” or a basalt stone with “the largest possible inclusion.” You just have to be careful not to get caught on the beach as darkness falls, you are ever drawn to the sunset, or the tide comes in.

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” 
― Rachel Carson