Here on the southern Gold Coast, Queensland, we’ve recently had lots of rain and storms.
This has flushed tonnes of debris out of our local waterway, Currumbin Creek, onto the nearby beach. Most of this debris is wood that ranges in size from small twigs to entire tree trunks. Beach visitors have been having a great time using this as building material for beach sculptures!
Here’s what the beach looks like:
Many of the constructions are representations of shelters – this is one of the more elaborate ones, which developed over several days:
Note the palisade fence, fire place, table, bench seat, and green-plant decorations.
This is one of the more abstract sculptures – it reminds a little me of the machines in War of the Worlds.
This is a closer view of the top part of it:
The top of this is over three metres high.
This one is lavishly decorated with casuarina leaves:
This one is very simple, but is noteworthy for the aromatic talisman placed over the entrance, presumably to ward off evil spirits:
Of course, this time of the year your shelter needs a Christmas tree!
There must be something deep in humans, either culturally or instinctively, to make us put all this effort into building things out of any available material.
A few days after I took these pictures the local council came and cleared all the debris off the beach – it’s nice to have our clean beach back but the debris sculptures were great fun!
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