ripple-embroidered

Updated: May 17, 2025

The camps stood a pace or two above high-water mark in the meagre shelter of sighing casuarinas, and were often changed, for there were six miles of gently curving, ripple-embroidered shore on which to rest. To this day most of the traffic is regulated by the tide.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Tropic Days