Wednesday 19 June 2013

Bright shallows...photograph of stromatolites.







I stood  between stone towers and stepped over deep emu prints on wind-rippled  white dunes today. I breathed in the air around a Stromatolite lake…I felt each one's  presence: strange particles that, before today, I never knew existed on our planet. They photosynthesise... they live...they have life.


Stromatolites are a geological and biological phenomenon. With no skeletal structure, the stony, bacterial  growths collapse at maturity, as seen in this photograph taken yesterday at Lake Thetis.