Sunday 28 December 2008

Rocks and rubbish


Near to us there is an abandoned house- well, the concrete skeleton of one.
If you take the turning beside it, you get down to the sea- eventually- after you pass a huge amount of dumped rubbish which was recently set on fire and ebbs and flows as various people try to clean it up or dump yet more fridges, pieces of old concrete and glass. The bamboo is growing back along the sides of the 'stream' and the birds are enjoying flitting through the new stems.

But I digress.

We decided to try and see what some more of our local coastline was like- and we found some amazing rock formations! The island of Cyprus was under the water for years- a lot of the local rocks were formed out of mud that was under the sea- so they are full of thousands of shells. Sandstone like rocks are very soft- and they are mixed with a local form of soapstone and iron and copper ores. Round by the harbour, the rocks are very similar but its always good to explore what you have on your doorstep and see things through new eyes.

We had an explore and I found some parts of shells that have been worn flat and smooth through water and rock action over the years. I can see them being used in some form of altered art in the near future! I also found a dead crab- so I had to pose him on the nearby rocks.
RIP kavouri mou.




1 comments:

Martha Lee said...

Very interesting... Lovely place you live!