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Earth Sculptures #7
Wave Rock is also known as Katter Kich by the local Noongar people. It first came to prominence in 1963 when photos were published in National Geographic magazine.
The Rock is not what one would call awe-inspiring but it is a particularly rare sculpture. The [frozen wave] is just about to pitch as its granite face forms a perfect right-hand section — it’s mirror-image equivalent [with a perfect left-hand section] can be seen in the breaking waves off the shallow reef at Teahupoo in Tahiti.
So all you skaters out there who think Teahupoo might be a little too much, being the heaviest ten to fifty foot wave in the world and all — try Katter Kich by land, put your head down and beat that 50 ft. inside section.😎
Up above all of this action is Hyden Rock (which is fairly flat) — again not unlike a wave which has a steep face with a flattened back side.
The Rock sits in Hyden Wildlife Park in the small town of Hyden Western Australia.
