Dragon's Head #2, Sunrise, Victoria, Australia

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The Dragon's Head is an oddly eroded piece of the volcanic rock platform it sits upon. Such platforms are common in this part of Australia's coastline, but parts that look like a dragon's head are not.

The waterfalls on each side of the dragon's head appear as waves crash over the ocean facing side of the platform. Once on top of the flat platform, the water spreads out and flows to the inland facing side, where some of it forms the waterfall. The pool it falls into is quite deep. If the tide is rising one can't spend much time taking photographs here without getting wet, or worse. At high tide the waterfall and lower part of Dragon's Head Rock are submerged.

On this occasion the tide was particularly low and still falling, but with no warning I was hit by a knee high wave that came across the platform. The real danger here comes from rogue waves that can reach three times the current wave height. On this this morning that could be roughly 5 meters or 17 feet.