The Village
Like an arctic Smurf village, Ward’s beach assumes improbable shapes amidst a February cold snap.
Old Faithful
Another Ward’s beach geyser erupts into strong sidelight. After each session of shooting in -18°C weather, the cameras would be coated in ice and require careful defrosting for several hours near a constant heat source.
End of the Road
The breakwall that defines the eastern gap continues to crumble into the inner harbour. Here a lonely bollard awaits its fate, many of its siblings already lying submerged beneath the icy waters.
Big Kahuna
All things must pass: Big Kahuna, the largest geyser to form on Ward’s beach, goes dormant after reaching a height that dwarfed all other ice formations.
Sunset Eruption
Like Old Faithful, a newly-formed geyser on Ward’s beach erupts into a million points of light under the full pressure of an incoming wave.
Icefields
A dormant geyser leaves behind a cave large enough to crawl into, here framing early clouds ushering in a low pressure system that should see temperatures rise by almost 15°C.
Red White and Blue
Amidst a fresh and still undisturbed snowfall, the Gibraltar Point lighthouse stands tall against a cloudless -18°C sky.
Cpt. Tom
A gem from the archives: it’s January 2004, and the temperature has just plummeted by over 20°C. Plastic shatters, pipes burst, and hydraulic lines fail. Without hydraulic pressure, the crew of the Ongiara are unable to raise the Ward’s Island dock, effectively trapping the ferry Island-side. For two hours everything was tried, including something enterprising […]