These photographs are all scans of 35mm negatives, taken at Hallett Cove Conservation Park, in 2000.

This is a view of Hallett Cove Conservation Park, from near the main south-western entrance.

I am very impressed with the subtlety and accuracy of realistic colours and tones captured in this scan.

I am very impressed by the subtlety and accuracy of colour captured throughout the entire scan, but especially in the lower sky, the grasses growing over the protected sides of the cliffs, the beach sand, and the timber railings of the boardwalk at the top of the cliffs.

The chocolate-brown coloured rocks of the cliffs have been dated by geologists to have formed around 600 million years ago.

The Sugarloaf is a prominent geological feature of the conservation park. It is basically a large 'white' cone of highly eroded clay and rock, topped with a cap of orange coloured clay and rock. These amazing highly eroded surfaces show fascinating patterns of structure.

This was seen from above a line of cliffs that extend along towards the north from Black Cliff. The features I was mainly interested in viewing here are the wave-cut platform of eroded rock, and the beach.

This detail image more clearly shows the beach of sand and rounded pebbles, below the line of cliffs. Note the orange colouring on some of the rocks of the cliffs. The orange colouring is actually bright orange lichen growing freely on the surface of the rocks here.

This detail image shows the wave-cut platform of rock, below the line of the cliffs. Note the blue-green lichen growing freely on cliff in the foreground. I don't know why some of the rocks have orange lichen growing on them and others have blue-green lichen growing on them. I can only guess that there may be chemical differences in the rocks that are 'allowing' those different lichens to thrive on them.

To get down to the surface of the beach, I needed to make my way down a pathway that went down from the top of the cliffs, and then work my way along a creek bank towards the beach. There were lots of rocks scattered everywhere there.

The orange on these rocks is a collection of orange-coloured lichen that is growing freely over the surface of the rocks, in the sunlight, and in the clean sea air.

The wavy lines of ancient jagged rocks which are part of the wave-cut platform, remind me of curved dinosaur backs (dinosaurs that have large plates running down their spines, used for warming in the sun).

The beach of rounded stones is from an enormous amount of fallen rocks from the cliffs.

The wave-cut platform of rock, below the cliffs, showing curves of layers of rock and various layers of harder jagged rocks.

Thousands of layers of compressed sedimentary rock, all buckled and lifted, and now highly eroded.