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Friday, 30 November 2012

Caught Short

 

We went to Noosa this evening to watch the Christmas Tree being lit at Hastings Street, and since we live at exactly the other end of the town, which is pretty close to 60 km from where we were when I realised I'd left my camera at home, there was little chance of retrieving it in time.

So the trusty phone came out and at least recorded some of the colour of the night.

Hastings Street
Noosa


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Thursday, 29 November 2012

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Let's leave Nambour!


One man and his dog heading into the sunset on a paddleboard.

Surely there's a song in that.

Caloundra
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Monday, 26 November 2012

Erk indeed

It takes an extremely talented and brave anti-artist to carry out a project this vast!   I am at two minds though whether this tile-lined structure is a bigger blot on the main street than the tags which it contains.

Perhaps someone can explain its purpose in the grand scheme of things?   It doesn't have enough drains or disinfectant for the purpose it is currently used.

Nambour

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Sunday, 25 November 2012

Wings


The public carpark obviously had some thought lavished on it in the design stages, with its overlapping curves and carefully detailed concrete work, but then someone left it outside in the rain, and forgot about it, added a few less than discreet plastic pipes and generally left it to rot.

It just needs a clean!

Nambour
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Saturday, 24 November 2012

Tell someone who cares!

It's things like this I don't get about Nambour.  On the one hand the community is clearly quite strong and proud of their town and its history, on the other, no one cares about stuff that appears to be only visible to strangers.

In another place I live, someone would have "adopted" this traffic island, taking care of the garden on a voluntary basis, but here it must fend for itself!

Nambour

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Friday, 23 November 2012

Another Fire

Fire was once synonymous with cane.   Before each harvest the sugar cane would be burnt to clear out the vermin, and get rid of all but the precious stalks of cane, allowing the cutters to get in and get a clear if not clean run at their job.

It was filthy, hot, hard work, and the cane cutters were a tough lot.   Nambour was once a sugar town, and it's roots are never far from view.

Nambour

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Thursday, 22 November 2012

Another Bright Spot


Another bright spot, but would it really have been too hard to put the identification sticker up on the flat green bit instead of slapped in the middle of the painting?

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Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Bright Spots



All is not lost, Nambour is full of electrical boxes decorated with artist Mandy Shackleton's unmistakable hand.

But the bright spots don't always take one's eye away from the derision they mask.

Nambour.

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Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Council Offices

Decades on, and the main stair entrance to Council's offices is still blocked off by a Stainless steel handrail.   Presumably the stair doesn't comply with current regulations if it is left full width, so why not turn it into something useful, like a garden, or a skateboard ramp?

Nambour

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Monday, 19 November 2012

Downtown

Nambour at first glance is a lovely, leafy town, even at second glance it's quite pleasant to drive through, or even stop and wander for a bit.

Nambour

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Sunday, 18 November 2012

Lovin' Nambour again.

Back in Nambour and I'll try to be nice, but really, how long did it take for these trees to grow in front of the the floodlights that once used to light Council offices by night?  No one seems to have noticed.

Sure, there's an argument that says night lighting is unnecessary and a terrible waste of carbon to boot, in which case I'd have to ask why Council leaves its rubbish bolted to a pole!

Nambour

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Saturday, 17 November 2012

Theme Park

It would almost be worth paying an admission fee to get to wander round the ruin, but I suppose there are rules about that sort of thing.

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Friday, 16 November 2012

Waste

There is a fortune in recyclable materials if only it was possible to recover them without paying the cost of labour. So many of the world's disused buildings could be dismantled and parts used constructively if only there was a source of free help. Perhaps it's time to start a building demolition version of WWOOFing to find mutually beneficial reuse of the materials!

Nambour

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Thursday, 15 November 2012

Macadamia World


I don't remember if it was started as an adjunct to the Big Pineapple, or in opposition to it, but whatever the case Macadamia World became infused, although it has not handled the ravages of time and insolvency nearly as well.

Nambour


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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Directions

The Big Pineapple has apparently been rescued and will live to fight another day, perhaps in a mere shadow of its former glorious past.

I am not yet sure what to expect, beyond the mango ice and farmer's markets, if anything at all, but I shall return to investigate its transformation or resurrection, or where ever its new direction takes it.

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Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Fine Eye for Detail

The Metal Billboard is cleverly aged and rusted and looks as though ti's been hanging in place for a hundred years, or at least ten.

It features Australia's most notorious outlaw from times gone by, and while I shan't grumble about the historical improbability of finding such an artefact 3,000 kilometres from his stamping grounds, this is a them park after all, I do wonder how they made the bullets which punched the perfectly triangular holes.

One doesn't see them too often.

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Monday, 12 November 2012

For Lease


At Aussie World, there are one or two empty tenancies, awaiting bright-eyed new tenants.  They have not been left empty and abandoned though.

Actually they probably have, but the windows are painted over to give the impression that they are inhabited.  The curtains are a lovely touch!

Glenview

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Sunday, 11 November 2012

Souvenirs


The VW Kombi is synonymous with the beach, beach culture and the freedom of a youth lived forty years ago.  The turtle and the pelican are icons of our coast as well, although neither are in great abundance, but deck chairs and galloping horses are as far removed as the style of architecture in painting of the church.

Whatever, as they say, turns you on......

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Saturday, 10 November 2012

Playground

When driving on the highway, one could be forgiven if one gained the impression from the billboards that the Sunshine Coast is one big playground.   Of course in one view it is.....

Glenview
Sunshine Coast

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Friday, 9 November 2012

Aussie Fairground

At least it doesn't say "Ye Olde", although to continue nit picking, I am not sure that "Fairground" is something that could be associated with "Old Aussie".   What can be though, is the way the components are just stuck in a clearing and the bush is hovering around it's edges like a guard dog ready to pounce.

Aussie World

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Thursday, 8 November 2012

Aussie World

Aussie World is a strange place, I hope it survives but whenever we are nearby the place seems deserted, well kept and deserted. The well-kept is probably a clue that the weekend and holiday visitors are in sufficient numbers to keep it ticking over, but therein lies a clue; if you want to avoid the crowds, pop along on a Thursday morning!

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Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Watch out Max!

Sometimes I wonder how stupid or perhaps inattentive people have become. I am in the middle of installing my roof rack on my admittedly small four wheel drive vehicle.

 With the tent on the roofrack it will be higher than my garage door, I wonder how I shall survive without a sign, a speed limit sign (in an eight metre long driveway with a right angled bend a the end of it), a mirror, a yellow bar, a yellow bar with black diagonals and a hanging yellow bar as well. There was a time when simply "headroom 2.1 metres in a discreet sign would have been sufficient.

 Caloundra

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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Having a wonderful time, wish you were here.



I didn't get out today, but here's a photograph of my Grandmother clearly enjoying herself at the beach, taken as far as I can work out, sometime in the 1940's at Maroochydore.



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Monday, 5 November 2012

Things are Looking Up



Somewhere in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, lounging over a long lunch at a friend's place, I looked up, took out my phone and sent their verandah roof to the internet.

I'm sure that's making the best possible use of such a wondrous resource!

Twin Waters.

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Sunday, 4 November 2012

A Walk in the Park 2

One can walk for kilometres among the trees just a few tens of metres from the shore, with ever changing vistas.  It's ever so much more seductive than simply wandering along the beach.


Noosa national Park


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Saturday, 3 November 2012

Walk in the Park 3

Living in a town with more coastline that many countries (Belgium for instance), there are many ways of accessing the water.  Some are developed boardwalks and esplanades, others are simply tracks.

This track is in Noosa National Park.

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Friday, 2 November 2012

A Walk in the Park


Sunset isn't far off, and the sea mist is adding another dimension to the air over the National Park, but I can't hang around and wait to see what happens, I have a little way still to walk before dark.

Noosa National Park


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Thursday, 1 November 2012

No Marco Polo -
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What, one may well ask, is Marco Polo?   It's a mind-numbingly inexplicable game which involves one person in a pool calling out "Marco" and another responding "Polo".

That's it.

Nothing more.

But it is has been happening for decades and is relentless and the best response I can possibly give by way of explanation by this very sign was written by a journalist - Susan Hocking.  I would like this photograph to be seen in the manner in which her article was intended!


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