Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Branston Beach

Had a really good 3 days at this beach which we had to ourselves.  Met some interesting people here.  Tony now understands the "don't judge a book by its cover" concept.  The people on one side of us who were in good looking vans, just sat and drank and ate their way through 2 days and on the other side of the park was a derelict looking camper with a couple of real oldies (80 and 84yrs) who were definitely worth the time of day. Very educated and still lecturing in philosophy!  

  Looking down to one end of Branston Beach
just north of Innisfail








And looking up to the northern end....had the beach to ourselves.                                                                                                                     






Tony is happiest without gear!!!!!
While the pictures above look like a beach of yello sand, at the waters edge at low tide this is a shimmering beach of Silica.  The most common usage of silica sand is in glass making for more info you might like to go to:

http://www.mineralszone.com/minerals/silica.html

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