Busselton is a large, coastal town in the southwest of Western Australia. Its 1.8 km jetty is the longest wooden jetty in the world, and I had the opportunity to visit it recently. The spring weather was beautiful; there was some cloud cover, but it was warm and dry.
A small, blue-walled building welcomes visitors to the jetty. There is a nominal fee to walk along the jetty, and the funds go into maintaining the structure. For those so inclined, there is a train that will bring you to the end of the jetty and back, for a further fee.
There were relatively few people on the jetty. Most were walking along the structure, but a sizeable contingent was fishing. Unusually, there seemed to be very few seagulls around.
There were plenty of opportunities to experiment with scene composition, of course, with the relatively calm Indian Ocean, cloudy sky, and the jetty making up the three main elements. Landscapes like these can actually be a good way to check your sense of visual orientation—take any picture with the horizon in it, and see how many degrees off horizontal you are (in post-processing). Being out by only a few fractions of a degree can be very noticeable when you have so few elements in play and one of them is (essentially) perfectly horizontal.
There are some interesting subjects along the way, such as the wind vane below, and there is also a section of the jetty with memorial plaques to various people. Unsurprisingly, many of those plaques mention fishing, whether as a pastime enjoyed in life or an imagined pastime in the afterlife.
I visited Busselton Jetty in the morning, so the lighting was unremarkable. Visiting at sunrise or sunset would undoubtedly be better from an artistic point of view—or perhaps, during a storm. This time around, the jetty and its surrounds were pleasantly quiet.
While there has been some building in the area to cater for tourists, this part of the town feels largely the same as it did a few years ago, and that is by no means a bad thing.