Sealer's Cove by Arek Rainczuk
Beautiful bay with a perfect beach has a dark past. In 18th century sealers and whalers stationed here, they say you can still find giant bones in this area…
Mono conversion shows both the beauty and secrets of this place.
Taken at Sealer’s Cove in Wilson’s Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Canon EOS 450D Ef-S 18-55 IS
Tv 1/8sec
Av f/22
ISO 100
Converted form RAW
Lightroom 2 + Photoshop CS4
Comments
wonderful capture
gorgeous, even in b&w
Thank you
– Arek Rainczuk
Lovely shot Alecrain, love that angled horizon. Sealers Cove was named by George Bass basically as an advertising slogan to encourage investment in which he was later involved. From the considerable history I’ve read of the area I believe little or no sealing or whaling happened in this particular bay most of the action being concentrated on the more sheltered Refuge Bay (formerly Ladies Bay) the next cove along. If interested I’ve posted a short history of it here
Thank for that Travis.
I only know what I’d read in the Wilson’s Prom visitors booklet.
– Arek Rainczuk
Oops that should read Refuge Cove
Having read so much history of the area, there is a lot of conflicting stuff out there. Most presume sealers cove got its name because of the sealing that occurred there and while it almost certainly had some initial slaughter its most significant ongoing exploitation was for timber with a logging township of 60 souls once abiding there using the pier of whose remains you most ably captured to load the logs onto ships. More here