On Tuesday afternoon July 7, 2009, a beautiful sunny cloudless mid-winter day, I travelled down to the Westernport Coast, about 70 km south of Melbourne.

My destination was Point Leo, the start of an exploration of the coastline to Shoreham Beach, a return beachwalk of about 5 km - temperature was about 12 degrees.

By 3pm, the sun was very low in the northern sky, casting long shadows along the beach. ... (more)