On October 25th Arturo was once again occupied with some work related stuff. Chris and I set out for a drive down the island. Initially we wanted to check out an area with some old wharfs.
Our first stop was down by the jetty in Royston. It was low tide at this point in the morning, and we wanted to see if access was possible. It quickly became evident that it was not, so we moved on to the south.
We slowed down a little and explored in the area of Mud Bay, Fanny Bay and Deep Bay. We wasted a bunch of time driving into residential subdivisions only to find that there was no access to the water. This is what prevented us from gaining access to the old wharf that we had previously located. In coming days, once we got across to the mainland, we quickly discovered that the presence of a large population made access to anything near the water, nearly impossible.
We managed to get out onto the tidal flats at one location and found a bunch of nets spread out below the high tide line. Apparently these are clam beds. I'm not sure what the benefit of the nets is...? Perhaps to prevent marine and bird life from harvesting the clams. In any event it looked pretty interesting so I took a few photographs.
We also found an old cedar rail fence with a gate amongst the fall leaves, as well as an old railway bridge over Rosewall Creek, and photographed these.
On our way back out of the area we also discovered an old wood boat abandoned at the edge of a private property, and managed to shoot it from an adjacent community hall. Later still we discovered a small tavern that proved to be suitable for the Beer Parlour Project, but I will save that for another post.
By late afternoon we made our way back to the rental house and met up with Arturo. He was just finishing up his work for the day so we settled in for the evening and prepared our evening meal.
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