# The writer describes a grassy bank above a narrow sandy beach, shallow water and a sandbank running parallel to the coast near the Williamstown racecourse. > Cite as: PLOT record c/82ES-6R v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source - **Address:** c/82ES-6R, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/82ES-6R) - **Value:** Let us take up a position for observations from the grassy bank just above the present beach and look seawards. Even at high tide, with only a crescentic strip of sandy beach a few feet in width below us, the shallowness of the water off this shore can be noticed, but at low tide a very much finer impression can be obtained, and the development of a sandbank running parallel with the coast is at once seen. (Historical passage) - **About:** Williamstown - **Kind:** Reported by source - **Who said it:** Reported by community - **Period:** 1909 - **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person. - **Open questions:** None open - **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.26, 1909-1910 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 24, victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 38, printed page 24 - **The snippet in PLOT:** - **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural26fiel, leaf 38, printed page 24 - **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence. - **Editions:** october-26th-release - **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "How the place looked", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication. - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural26fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match) - Screening: include (meets criteria): The beach and grassy bank by the racecourse shell-beds. ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/82ES-6R.json Cite as: PLOT record c/82ES-6R v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1909), reported by source