Blue extremities and beanies are the norm on the wild beaches of the state’s south-west coast, where the mighty Southern Ocean is best experienced at a distance
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Before I moved to Sydney I would look at Max Dupain’s famous Sunbaker photo and think: I do not recognise that beach. Where, for example, is the person in the overcoat and beanie? Where is the person covered in sand? Where are the surfers in full steamers with blue extremities?
If you are from the south-west coast of Victoria, and your ocean is the mighty Southern Ocean, none of the eastern seaboard beach iconography resonates. The south-west coast has some of the most dramatic, beautiful, inhospitable, remote and wild beaches in the world. And much of it is best experienced at a distance.
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