For geological info about this place click on the link: Hinsby Beach and Taroona Beach
Weather:
Windy elsewhere but here quite sheltered. Sunshine in distance (to south of Kingston) on cliffs.
Sounds:
Dumpy noisy waves like a subway.
TC Journal Sketch
Met at the boatramp at Taroona Beach. Stopped at the north end of Hinsby and located ourselves on the geology maps. Continued south beyond Hinsby Beach towards the Alum Cliffs.
Observations:
As you look south there are the rock platforms at the base of the cliffs of Permian rocks. The rocks of the platform are quite fossiliferous.
Where we sat at the south end of Hinsby Beach there was a great jumble of Permian sedimentary boulders, interspersed with darker dolerite boulders from the cliff immediately behind.
The horizon is dark - like sooty eyeliner.
Above: sketch and notes about Hinsby Beach (and Alum Cliffs) by Simon Stephens in “Taroona, 1808-1986 : farm lands to a garden suburb / written by past and present residents of Taroona” (1988), pp 12-20.
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