We were welcomed by this black swan when we visited the sandbar at Point Walter for the second time.

I wanted to edit the photo above but something strange happened.  I thought this picture is too warm, and I wanted to make it cooler, when I made it a bit blueish, the warm sand turned into dark blue.  I decided not to edit it.  The camera has recorded something I did not notice with my eyes.

The above is the unedited photo, and the colour blue reflected by the river and sky were actually hidden in the sand.

One of the black swans said, “I will bring you to the most beautiful place in the world, where we have endless fish to eat.”

The other black swan replied, “No matter where you go, I will follow you.”

There is a proverb in Chinese - “Three Three Two Two”.

In Chinese, we use this proverb in this way - “The black swan were swimming 3-3-2-2-ly on the Swan River.”

There was another black swan sleeping on the sandbar.

It put its beak inside its feathers.

While we were about to leave, we found a group of fierce birds.  They were seagulls and crows.

There was a water tap on the ground not far from the sandbar, we washed our feet there, and a group of birds were waiting to drink the water.  They fought with each other and chased away other birds so that they could have all the water that came out from the tap.

They must be really thirsty.  They didn’t have much choice in the summer and had to drink dirty water.

The fierce crows was watching the wave and said,”I am not afraid of you, did you bring some fish for me?”

There were some tall trees on the inner part of the beach.  There were two crows which was standing on the branches and talking to each other.

Swans footprints on the sandbar.

Why was there a feather?  Were the birds fighting?

The summer is really hot, and we found a dead crow.  Wish it rest in peace.

The sandbar is the shallow area extended into the middle of the river.  The waves from both sides of the sandbar can easily bring fish onto the sand, but the fish cannot get themselves out from the sandbar.  The poor fish will be burned under the hot sun in the summer.

The same thing happens to the poor jellyfish.

We found some shells too.  Hopefully they could crawl back to the river if they were still alive.

Besides water creatures, the waves can also bring the floating dead sea grass onto the sandbar.

While we walked pass the sandbar near to this girl, we heard she talked to her mom, “I saved another jellyfish.”  Yes, she has done a good job.  We saw her putting a jellyfish back into the river with both of her hands.

We did not dare to do that, because we were afraid that we might get stung by the jellyfish.  She was really a brave girl.  And she might know which type of jellyfish is not dangerous.

If I have gloves, I will save the fish and jellyfish that are stuck on the sandbar or the beach.

This was our second visit to the sandbar at Point Walter.  The tide was lower and the sandbar was wider.  We could see many footprints there.

The footprint patterns have made the sandbar more artistic.  Although they were human-made, but the lines and shapes merged harmoniously with the sand.  ”Human made” is usually opposed to “natural” in words.  But don’t forget, humans are also part of the nature.

If your computer has large display, you can find bird footprints among the human footprints in the photo above.

I was wearing a pair of slippers, can you find which footprints are mine?

There were countless of footprints.  When the tide comes, all of them will be gone.

We can’t leave footprints in the water.  For each step, we created a tiny tsunami, and the sand in the water burst up around our feet.

We have not finished the postings on this title - “Sandbar at Point Walter” - … … to be continued … …  I will show you more photos and things that we have found there.