Betka River mouth opens, 9 January 2023

A short sequence at the mouth

The Betka River mouth opened on the morning of 9 January 2023, while I was there with the camera. I made three photographs at 8:37 am, 8:40 am and 8:43 am, a short timed record of the river finding its way to the sea.

The first two frames are from the air, looking over the sandbar and the dark channel of the river as it winds toward the surf, with the forest and the long beach behind. The third is from the sand, looking out along the shallow opening to the waves. A few people are in the channel in that last frame. I have not tried to describe a change I cannot clearly show in those six minutes.

There is a video with this post as well. The old note said “video and 360 coming soon”, but the film is already here, so I have left that line behind.

Betka’s mouth opens and closes with the river and the sea, and this site already has earlier chapters, including my July 2020 visits. This one belongs to a clear January morning, timed almost to the minute.