I  basically walked away from  the Currency Creek project. I couldn't figure out how to conceptually  continue with it.  It didn't grow into  a project as I'd hoped, mainly because  I found it too hard designing different situations and activities with models along the different parts of  the creek. 

I decided to take a different approach. I would just concentrate on intuitively making a few photos, put the conceptual stuff  in the background,  and then see what emerged.    I choose the coastal interface at Port Willunga. It was  a landscape where nature meet or interacted with human society. 

The ruined Port Willunga jetty is a tourist icon.  The sticks of the jetty, when Port Willunga was once a grain port,   are  much photographed from the shore.  The sticks or pylons butting out from the eroding sandstone cliffs are an  icon of local,  tourist photography.     

Maybe something could emerge from the these photos. Or so I hoped.   

The second photograph was of  the beach with the Star of Greece restaurant and a view along the coast to the Point and Maslins beach.  It was in the late afternoon.  Beach culture I thought. Australian's have a passion for the beach.  Port Willunga beach  was not a surfing beach,  as  it was  on the south  eastern part of St Vincents Gulf.  It was a swimming beach where weddings and food festivals  took place. 

The beach as culture means summer holidays, freedom, enjoying nature. It represents a picture of Australians as egalitarian beachgoers relaxing and playing in the sand and surf as kids and then moving  to  the coast  to live after retiring from work. 

It seemed a good space to explore  with a large format camera.