Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Sunday 31 July 2011

Shady Deals

The Real Estate Agent's window looks quite pretty in the dappled shade of the lattice overhead.

Kings Beach

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No Entry

"Kings Beach" says the sign, "No Entry" says the other, but it's OK, one can park around the corner and walk back.

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This is a very rare sight indeed. An abandoned block of flats awaiting redevelopment has been the target of vandalism over a long period of time. The site is for sale, presumably the developer has some financial issues, and now it's too derelict even for squatters.

Kings Beach

More Rhythm

If it weren't for the repetition I suspect it'd be just another house rather than an entire block of apartments!

Caloudra

Setting sun

A sensible young photographer may well have waited till morning to take this shot, but I like the monochrome effect, and sometimes I just don't do mornings that well.

Caloundra

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Ready to Rumba

Yesterday I borrowed its pool, so it's the least I can do, show off some of the geometry which has a certain rhythm to it after all.

Caloundra

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The Turn

If he'd forgotten to turn he'd have bounced across the road, onto the beach and into the Passage. The first floor pool at Rumba Resort is pretty cool though.

Caloundra

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Beach House

What exactly makes a house a "beach house" I wondered to myself, and there began the first of a series which is destined to carry on for quite some time.

A dracena, a fish skeleton in timber and blue paint are a good start.

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The Passage

Looking toward the sea, the entrance to Pumicestone Passage looks innocent enough, but the current is swift and the lifesavers can't afford to snooze.

Caloundra

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Spot the odd man out!

Can you pick it among the sea of mid rise development? The one lonely blue relic of a different past?

Caloundra

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Oblivious

It had been quite a dull day really, and then, late in the day, the sun came out, and so did all those who for what ever reason decided to test their immunity to skin cancer.

Oblivious to the danger, to the photographer behind, and the fact that nothing was perpendicular. Even the horizon seemed to be slipping away.

Caloundra

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PInk

It may not be quite a riot of colour, but before dawn it's pretty enough.

The lack of focus is a reflection of the lack of sharpness in my brain at that time of the morning, so I decided to keep the photo for posterity.

Dicky Beach

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Sunrise

Sunrise where the waters meet.

Twoway Creek

Moffat Beach

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Guess

I was afraid to look in case it read "read other side."

Noosa Beach

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Happy Daze

At rest,
Noosa River

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Paradise

A hundred metres from world class hotels, if one has a shallow draft boat, one can more for free.

Surely it doesn't get any better than this?

Noosa Woods

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Noosa Woods

Before I was old enough to be called a youth even, I would fish here with my father, climbing through the fallen casuarinas, wading knee deep in the soft sand, catching our dinner in the tannin stained waters.

It looks like erosion, and it is, but it's been happening for centuries. Estuaries are dynamic creatures.

Noosa Woods.

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Waterfront Living

Much of our youth was very well spent pretty much at the spot on which I stood to take this photograph. Back then there were no houses opposite, just sand banks and casuarinas and fish and birds and the odd well tanned surfer camping in an old panel van (as indeed we were).

Later we returned in our boat to live among the millionaires for next to no cost.

It's still one of the great mooring sites in the world I reckon.

Noosa Woods

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Once Was Advertising

When one removes the beer prices from all those little squares, and allows a couple of shadows to liven up the geometry, the result is.....

Art!

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Sheraton Noosa

The fence at the Sheraton Noosa seems to be rather a happy accident.

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The good old days

Hastings Street, Noosa, is one of the world's great addresses, or so some would have you think. Why that's the Sheraton Noosa reflected in the window!

But forty years ago, when I was a callow youth, studying architecture by night and working as a draftsman by day, this building was one of the first multi storey buildings in Hastings Street. In fact it had two.

It was built as an upmarket adjunct to the Pine Trees Caravan Park, all mission brown and dark brick.

Now it sits vacant and decaying.

A reflection of myself perhaps?

Hastings Street Noosa

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Impractical Hats

Well you may laugh, but see all those holes? They let the sun in and if one has nought but skin on the top of one's head, one can end up a red head without the use of any chemical.

And if one has a longish nose.... heaven forbid!

Silly little hats.

Noosa.

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More Leaves

And then as the shadows lengthen and reflect in the shopfronts, the leaves become a sort of visual mulch.

I still love it.

Hastings Street

Noosa

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Leaves

The leafy pattern is not paint, but a perfectly crisp shadow from the sun shining through the patterned glass awning.

Brilliant! (well I think so at least.)

Hastings Street

Noosa

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Iron Bars

Iron bars, the saying goes, do not a prison make.

Well no, actually they make a pretty good pub enclosure as well.

Sheraton Noosa

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Shadow

There's nothing too subtle about our light and shade, yet the sail cloth awnings do their best to throw an entertaining shadow.

Bay Village
Noosa

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Screen Fence

North Shore Beach House

I guess the "North Shore" tag comes from Sydney, where property sharing that location is highly sought after.

Here, well it's really south of a lot of places as well, albeit on the northern side of the Maroochy River, and some find the prospect of waking up each morning and looking at looking at the ocean desirable indeed.

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Canopy

The pandanus provides a super dense canopy, wonderful to look at, but don't be below when a fruit drops!

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Mudjimba Tower

Rain on it's way

it seems like a perfect morning as we look back towards Point Cartwright, and it is, but the clouds are building in the west as well, and it will storm this evening.

But it's been a lovely morning on the beach!

Mudjimba

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