I checked the forecast last night and it showed a huge swathe of high level cloud over the coast with no gaps, so I didn’t have very high hopes for a colourful sunrise. However when I pulled back the blinds and looked to the east, there was some colour in the sky, so I headed up the road to Seven Mile Beach. The intensity of the colour increased up until the actual sunrise, when the colour faded and it all fizzled out. Bit of a shame, but the early colour was still excellent. I waited for a while in case we got some secondary colour as the sun broke above that distant cloud-bank, but it wasn’t to be, so I headed back to the car and met a couple of our local pelicans doing their early morning rounds.
Location
Shoalhaven Heads Beach is towards the southern end of Seven Mile Beach, just before the start of the old Shoalhaven River mouth. It’s a fairly wild bit of beach as they go, but you can capture some great shots by including the arc of the beach heading north and south.