Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 6 and 9 July 2024.
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Remarkable Rocks from viewpoint near road.
It looks like a megalithic monument at a distance, not so much closer up.
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The rocks are the weathered surface of a granite dome, over the course of the last 200 million years. This is due to alternate heating, cooling, wetting and drying. The rocks broke up due to sea spray entering cracks and crevices, with crystallising and expanding of salt, and also wave action during periods of higher sea levels.
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Consequently, there are many dramatic shapes.
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Hmmm. Maybe a stone man has walked out of this rock and left his shape behind.
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They were an eight minute drive from where we were staying at Cape Du Couedic Lighthouse Cottages..
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There are many places for intriguing glimpses through the rocks.
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We are looking east along the south coast of Kangaroo Island here.
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Remarkable shapes abound.
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Perhaps a stone pig, almost.
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The mini-landscapes on the surface of the rocks can be interesting too, with the red colour presumably due to lichen.
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The middle vertical round bit somehow reminds me of an ancient Greek helmet.
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Rock and sea.
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This reminds me of a triceratops.
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But from this angle, a goat.
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Sunset approaches.
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You won’t be able to see it but the lighthouse is visible in the full-sized version of each of the last three images, near the left end of the far peninsular.
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We are now looking west.
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Once again, you won’t be able to see it, but the light of the lighthouse is now on.
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Murray Foote 
The weathering really does produce fantastic shapes and ‘creatures’.
P.S. Clicking to enlarge an image works on a Mac too.
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It did help that we were staying nearby so I could be there in low light.
Yes, that was just a shorthand to say computer. I don’t know if that would work on an iPad and I can’t imagine it would for a phone.
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It works on an iPad.
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Wow! Those shapes remind me so much of Mt Parsons at the top of Freycinet Peninsula in Tassie.
I must learn more about the hollowing out process of granites. Similar situation, currently near the ocean, so presumably some salt chemistry, as you mentioned.
Thanks for these pics, Murray. They’ve convinced me to get over to Kangaroo Island (maybe mix that with Flinders Ranges, to get a really good dose of red rock!)
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We passed by Freycinet in a Tasmania trip last year. We didn’t go up Mount Parsons to see those interesting rocks but the image from Sleepy bay in this Blog post of “Impressive rocky hills surrounding Sleepy Bay” is probably Mount Parsons. I was also hoping to get to Bluestone Bay near Cape Tourville but a ranger advised us not to take our car down that road and we didn’t have time to walk.
I also posted on Flinders Ranges from a trip in 2016. There are links of those posts here.
Kangaroo Island is great! You need a fair bit of time too. There’s a lot to see!
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Such fantastic shapes! I love unique rock formations.
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Excellent pictures, Murray. Congratulations!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Thanks heaps 6qsite!
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I never knew erosion could be so artistic !
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