An Unusual Meeting of the Waters

As happens around Monterey during the winter rainy season, rain on the Sunshine Coast sends the local creeks running into the sea. But some of them have an unusual twist. There is a lot of tannin in the forests covering parts of eastern Australia, and when the tannin gets into the water it turns it the color of tea. Near Byron Bay, south of here, I've swum in a large tea colored lake. The water is clean and clear, but not blue, to say the least. This pic is a few km south of Sunshine Beach .

The amount of tannin in the water and the water's depth can create variations in the shades of colors that are wonderfully abstract.