Meningie
We are just back from a quick weekend away in Meningie, staying in the Lake Albert Motel. On the afternoon we arrived we cycled along the foreshore and stopped at all three of these jetties. It was a pleasant day, around 20 degrees though with a stiff breeze.
The main town jetty is adjacent to the large park in the middle of town. It's fairly unassuming and was unused at the time of our visit. But the area is busy with birdlife, and there are always plenty of pelicans around.
There is a longer jetty at the sailing club. This is only 100m north of the town jetty. It looks like it is being progressively repaired, as there were new sleepers along the first third of the structure. The end was fenced off; it wasn't immediately clear why, as that section doesn't look much worse that the stretch before it.
Taking these pictures I was thinking about the nature of pictures of jetties. They are a geometric shape in the landscape and every picture is really a landscape with a straight line angling through it. The only question is how or where you want your picture sliced by this line.
The final structure is barely a jetty. A short distance south, 100m along the Narrung Rd and just before the caravan park is Hunter's Reserve. In this is Hunter's Fishing Deck. A small T-shaped structure that certainly looks like a jetty and is publically accessible so warrants inclusion.
It is sheltered from the south by some reeds and looks a pleasant place to spend the afternoon. I think it must be pretty new as it looks smart, has yet to be colonised by the ubiquitous sea birds and doesn't appear on the satellite view of google maps.
There is a longer jetty at the sailing club. This is only 100m north of the town jetty. It looks like it is being progressively repaired, as there were new sleepers along the first third of the structure. The end was fenced off; it wasn't immediately clear why, as that section doesn't look much worse that the stretch before it.
Taking these pictures I was thinking about the nature of pictures of jetties. They are a geometric shape in the landscape and every picture is really a landscape with a straight line angling through it. The only question is how or where you want your picture sliced by this line.
The final structure is barely a jetty. A short distance south, 100m along the Narrung Rd and just before the caravan park is Hunter's Reserve. In this is Hunter's Fishing Deck. A small T-shaped structure that certainly looks like a jetty and is publically accessible so warrants inclusion.
It is sheltered from the south by some reeds and looks a pleasant place to spend the afternoon. I think it must be pretty new as it looks smart, has yet to be colonised by the ubiquitous sea birds and doesn't appear on the satellite view of google maps.
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