... and further to rubbish ...

The walk to and from the beach through the dunes is beautiful and one of our strongest memories of each day's visit to the beach.
We always take home any rubbish that we find on the beach.


We always hear and generally see wrens, honey eaters and flycatchers.
In winter robins are there as well.
There are always tracks of wallabies and kangaroos, and if we don't see the animals themselves, we hear one or two bounding away as we approach.

In the summer there are goannas, or just their tracks.

Once on the beach, we see a range of the common shore birds.

The plants are typical dune plants; straggly shrubs, tapering off to low ground hugging "herbs" and grasses once you reach the beach itself.
One of my favourite dune plants has been the Sea Spurge.


... or it was a favourite, until recently.
Now I know it is a weed, "Sea Spurge", or Euphorbia paralias.


Apprently it is a pest around much of Australia's coast, from Western Australia to NSW.

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/dec_media_050307_actionspurge

At Antechamber Bay it tapers off about where the Bridal Creeper extends into the dunes.

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