A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Water's Edge

Tomorrow's theme day is "water's edge" and I have no idea where I am going to find a suitable picture!

Here are some of the rocks at the point at Moffat Headland.

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Tuesday 30 October 2012

Cruisin'




The trouble with so many photographs is that they really are worth a thousand words!

Moffat Beach

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Monday 29 October 2012

Intense



Mostly the sun is quite intense here.

Today the shade is in tents.

Moffat Beach

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Sunday 28 October 2012

Bambi

Lost dog: 2  year old Staffy, responds to the name of Bambi, last seen wearing a blue bandana around her neck.......

I do hope she has been found, and if anyone reading this has any information please contact me.

For those who are not aware, "Staffy" is shorthand for Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Having noted the above, I can't say for certain having never been in that position, but if I was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and they called me "Bambi" and dressed me in bandanas, I reckon I'd think about leaving home too! 

Moffat Beach


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Saturday 27 October 2012

Marks where they've been.

This photograph was taken on the beach last Monday morning.  

It's hard to imagine it any other way, but the footprints do tend to suggest that the weekend sees a few more visitors.

Moffat Beach


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Friday 26 October 2012

Lost and Found

 It's Friday, and that means that tomorrow once again the morning walks along the beach will be punctuated by stops to pick up clothing and shoes and toys left behind by families after their weekend at the beach.

Each Monday at every access point there are enough items of clothing to start a small shop!

Moffat Beach

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Thursday 25 October 2012

Shade

In some places on a sunny day, there is a rush to find a place to simply relax under the full force of its rays, but in Australia generally the opposite behaviour is the norm.

Look under the trees for a picnic table.

Look up to the canopy at all that brown, a sure sign that we are in the middle of a very dry spring!

Moffat Beach

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Wednesday 24 October 2012

Murky

Warm, humid and with thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon, the morning air is thick with moisture, perhaps not enough to slice with a knife, but enough to prevent us seeing the ships as they pass.

Tooway Creek

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Tuesday 23 October 2012

Between Theme Days

I had meant to post this a little earlier, when we were exactly between this month's theme day "Silhouette" and the next one " Water's Edge", but it's a bit Instagram-ish as it turns out, so a fitting reminder that today we have launched an Instagram Feed at City Daily Photo.

Looking East at Sunset

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Monday 22 October 2012

Tradition

The traditional house in our neighbourhood is under threat.   Built post-war of light timber framework and clad inside and out with a wonder material "Fibrolite", known colloquially as "fibro", they were small, hot ill ventilated things without insulation that had us all sitting outside on a warm evening, or better still to sit by the beach nowhere near the house at all.

Nostalgia disguised as history, would have us believe that they were something more, or something less, but "Fibrolite" was composed of cement mixed with asbestos fibres, and whatever the push to have them saved, the materials of which they were constructed may well be their downfall.

The sun may be setting on the traditional beach house.
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Sunday 21 October 2012

Where Am I?

I'm not sure quite what to do had I bought one of these signs, crossed off everywhere I'm not perhaps?

The blue is what fascinates me though.   When did it become synonymous with Australian "beach" exactly, and what was the process that led to it?
  
Caloundra

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Saturday 20 October 2012

Mermaids and Beach Babes

Mermaids and beach babes in abundance.

Is there any wonder we are going to the Bulcock Street Markets again tomorrow!

Caloundra


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Friday 19 October 2012

Dingly Danglies

This, sadly, is what life has come to.

No longer do we have time to wander aimlessly along the shore beach combing, gathering up our small collection of worthless mementos to be left in an ever growing pile on a step or window sill, until someone takes it upon themselves to dispose of them.

But we needn't fret.  Somewhere in a land a long way to the north, there are people in factories manufacturing driftwood and threading it on strings for us to purchase in order to satiate our need for souvenirs.

Perhaps they should be renamed, they are not mementos, they are forgettos.

Caloundra Markets


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Thursday 18 October 2012

Market Day

Every now and then I like to publish a photo of Bulcock Street Caloundra, with its giant Moreton Bay figs lining the streets, or in this case some sunshine where one fell down, but in any case on a Sunday the cars are sent away, and tourist markets appear as if by magic.

This is not the place to come if you are keen to fill your larder, as fresh food vendors are few and far between, but if you want to have your aura tanned, or eat something fried in fat, dipped in sugar and served with with barbecue sauce, this is the place to be!

Caloundra

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Wednesday 17 October 2012

Let's Dance!

If your budget doesn't stretch to an Air Guitar, perhaps sir would be interested in one of our foam rubber filled cushion ukuleles?

Guaranteed never to play out of tune.

Caloundra Markets

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Tuesday 16 October 2012

Light at the end of the tunnel


Sunset, the day the new City Daily Photo portal went live.  
Now I can sleep! ;-)

Moffat Beach.

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Monday 15 October 2012

Scaffold

I love a bit of scaffold in the sunset.  

Despite what the press would have one believe, there is still some building work happening, even if it's not at it's old frenetic pace.  

Meanwhile, construction of the new City Daily Photo portal is at a stage where the scaffolding might just come down tonight!

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Sunday 14 October 2012

Something to Ponder

If a driver doesn't have the where-with-all to work out that he (or she) should really park between the lines, is he (or she) really going to check the sign to make sure?

Or s the sign a indicator of where one must park depending on the colour of one's car?

Yes, we like things orderly in Moffat Beach.

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A Blur

I've been burning the candle at both ends for a time, working on a secret City Daily Photo project, and now I can't even hold my camera steady!   Actully I was trying to blur everything but the cable ties on the helmet and nearly did it, but not quite.

The cable ties are there to distract marauding magpies, which get terribly aggressive around this time of year.  Some get quite specific in who they attack too; only small children or postmen or women on bikes, but to most for some reason, cyclists seem to cop the full force of their fury.

I am not sure if the cable ties do much, but I'd rather have a cable tie snapped at than my ear.

Dicky Beach

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Friday 12 October 2012

A Shocker

Today was not the sort of day that gave the town its name.  

The thermometer barely made it to twenty-five, the wind was about the same (in knots), and those little dots above the horizon left of screen which look like dust on my lens but which are actually kite sails with boards attached.  

Who knows what the owners were thinking but as we sat watching the whales on their migratory run, I couldn't help thinking that it would be far more pleasant inside with a cup of coffee in hand, and I wasn't getting wet!


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Thursday 11 October 2012

Moving on..

It's time to leave the beach for a bit I think, the lifeguards have everything under control.

Nothing to see here, move along.

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Wednesday 10 October 2012

Water's Edge?



Next month's theme day title has been decided, but I'm not sure how I'm going to cope finding something to do with water or its edge.

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Tuesday 9 October 2012

Cranes

The Premier of our state many years ago, used to gauge the state of the economy by the number of cranes on the skyline.    Looks like we're at one crane to a full blown recession at the moment, or perhaps it's one crane to a full blown recovery.

Who can tell?

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Monday 8 October 2012

Protection

It would be interesting to wonder where the Maroochy River mouth would be if it weren't for the erosion controls in place.   I also wonder how long the giant sacks of sand are expected to survive, and what will happen when they've gone.

Maroochydore


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Sunday 7 October 2012

Collision course

Everyone has their own idea of how to have fun at the beach,  for me, there's nothing wrong with sitting quietly in the dune with a camera in hand waiting for the moment of impact!

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Saturday 6 October 2012

and tomorrow.....

According to the forecast, the weather tomorrow will be much nicer!

Maroochydore looking at Alexandra Headland

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Friday 5 October 2012

Running into Summer


Summer is on its way, time to leave the wetsuit at home and just get out there!


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Thursday 4 October 2012

Cold Shower

Save water, shower with a surfboard.

Maroochydore

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Wednesday 3 October 2012

Flood Debris

Still quite jetlagged and with a now heavy cold picked up from one of the grandchildren, I sat on the beach for a few minutes today and felt like a pile of flood debris!

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Tuesday 2 October 2012

Where old meets new

Back "live" on the coast after six months in a place where things aren't old until they have been around from more than a couple of centuries, it's difficult to explain that here, if it's been built in the 80's it's pretty much due for replacement.

There must be a better way forward!

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Monday 1 October 2012

Blowout


The standard footwear on the coast is known as the "thong", I have no idea why.  In other parts of the world it's called he flip flop, and in New Zealand it's a Jandal.

There is a basic design fault shared by all, however, and that is that when a little bit of wear occurs around the sole, the holes enlarge and the strap just pops out.   This gave rise to the super model with duplicate "plugs" which is known simply as "the double plugger".

This one is a single plugger, abandoned now, its owner no doubt half limping across the road on the way home in that funny walk we get when we stand on sharp stones, as though walking funny will make it hurt less.   If only he'd known that there is a simple temporary repair:

A bread bag clip - those funny "c" shaped bits of plastic, work as a perfect washer over the plug, enough to get one home at any rate.

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Morning Silhouette

Can you tell who is the Council Officer suggesting that perhaps both dogs should be on a leash?

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