Arrival at the inlet mouth, looking
towards the Southern Ocean. The extensive sand spit at the mouth
was open to the ocean on this day. There was a narrow channel
on the western side.
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One of the acess places is on
the Bow River, just a couple of kilmetres upstream from the inlet.
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As with much of the southern coastline
towering sand dunes border this section of coast and the waters
of the inlets, fed by local streams, have cut their way through
to the sea.
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At the put-in near the mouth of
the Denmark River, for a Wilson Inlet paddle to its mouth with
the sea.
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Birdlife abounds: especially water
birds. There's huge flocks of the swans on these southern inlets.
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The pelicans like this granite outcrop in Wilson Inlet.
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The northern shore of Wilson Inlet is populated, but the
southern shore is bush, apart from this one residence or getaway
cottage, "Rogues Recluse".
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Paddler takes off from Denmark's Ocean Beach on a windy day,
but it gets much wilder than this!
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Torbay Inlet mouth with sand spit cutting off the inlet from
the sea. Compared to some this is a small waterway, with two
small lakes upstream, then connected to Lake Powell by a meandering
water course.
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One of the upstream lakes is bypassed by this man made waterway,
which runs straight beside the lake in next pic. Water birds
abound.
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The second upstream lake of Torbay Inlet.
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