Running Time:

62 min

Release Date:

August 1999

Recording Location:

Tracks 1-5: near Sorento, Point Nepean NP, Vic
Track 6-7: Mimosa Rocks NP, SE NSW
Track 8: Discovery Bay NP, SE NSW
Track 9-10: Yuragir NP, NE NSW
Track 11: Point Nepean NP, Vic
Track 12-14: Phillip Island, Vic

Call of the Ocean

Immerse your senses in a walk along a wild ocean beach.

Surf sends waves hissing up the sandy beach, splashing against rocks and lapping playfully in tidal rockpools. Behind the beach, birds sing among the coastal bush and banksia heaths, and at sunset, the soft calls of Fairy Penguins carry over the dunes.

Audio sample of this album

1.

Singing Sands

4.06

2.

Ocean Beach

5.21

3.

The Sooty Oystercatcher

1.06

4.

Silver Gulls

5.01

5.

Rock Platform

2.59

6.

Banksia Dunes

3.12

7.

Distant Bellbirds

2.36

8.

Among the Rockpools

3.45

9.

Heathland Dawn

3.47

10.

Sea Eagles

1.03

11.

The Blowhole

5.03

12.

Fairy Penguins

5.27

13.

Gentle Lapping

13.15

14.

Distant Beach

5.31

Customer reviews of this album

Just to let you know I received my order 'Call of the Ocean' today - I have already listened to it and it is perfect - just what i was hoping for. Cheers from sunny England!

Jamie, UK.

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