Sunshine Plaza

From time to time I wander around Sunshine Plaza, camera in hand.   It's one of, the few places in the world where I can rely on someone hassling me because I am taking photos.  Mostly they are polite, do not identify themselves and I have no reason to believe that any have been representatives of the centre management, but they tell me I shouldn't be taking photographs because it infringes copyright or "privacy"!    

It happened when I was taking this photograph!   (Note I am NOT referring to the centre's security staff, who in my experience are courteous and filled with common sense - they seem to be able to detect that there is no evil underfoot!)

So here's a challenge:   Spot the copyright or privacy infringement in this photograph.   I can't see it for the life of me.  It seems to me to be of a building that someone has left outside in full view of the public, with some boats.

Perhaps one day I will see if I can actually get formal permission to hang around with my camera, that might solve the problem, but what about all those people with their mobile phones?

End of rant.

Sunshine Plaza
Maroochydore


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Surfboard, Beach

Sometimes it's a bit hard to find a caption without stating the obvious.

Coolum Beach

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Postcard from Coolum

View north from the boardwalk.   The headland to the north is Noosa, but of course since it is now an adjoining town, not part of the Sunshine Coast, there's no need to look at that bit!

Coolum

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Cheap Shot

I do this often enough for it to becoming a recurring theme, but I can't emphasise enough how beautifully the deep shadows frame the view of the water.

Coolum

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Shadows in Context

Just in case anyone is tired of seeing shadows, I thought I'd stand back and find out what's making them!

Coolum Boardwalk

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Reality

A few years ago I posted a photograph of this mirror on the Coolum boardwalk.  As a temporary installation I think it was a bit of fun, but it's starting to show its age now.

Soon it will more closely resemble litter I suspect, but I shall return in a year or two to see how it's faring.

Coolum

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Inspiration

It's not hard to see where the inspiration for the printed glass comes from - in bright sunlight one doesn't have to look too far to see wonderful patterns in almost everything.

Coolum

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All this shadow

The shadow patterns of the last few days come from this; a simple glass awning with a screen printed pattern that resembles leaves.

Simple, not terribly cheap, but effective none the less!

Maroochydore

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Dappled Paving

One of the advantages in taking shade from printed glass rather from trees, is that there are never any leaves to rake.   It does tend to create a visual softness to all those hard surfaces too.

Maroochydore

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Shadow prints

Look carefully and you will notice that what appears to be a camouflage pattern is actually perfectly focussed shadow from the printed glass roof.  

Maroochydore

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More Shadow Graphics

Dappled shade, in those times when the printed glass awning and the sun are ever so lightly out of alignment.

Maroochydore

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Shadow Graphics

One of my favourite things about living in a country with strong sunlight is the ever changing patterns produced by the shadows.   Even the simplest construction detail can produce surprising variation on a building facade.

Maroochydore

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A Clue

Does the dinosaur lookout tend to detract from the authenticity of the castle?

Sunshine Castle
Bli Bli
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Ramparts

The concrete blockiness of the ramparts do tend to suggest that all may not have been here for centuries, but they've had a really nice try, and who wouldn't want to live on the other side after all?

Sunshine Castle
Bli Bli

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Sunshine Castle

The Coast's history seems to contain quite a smattering of madmen, or "visionaries" as their mother's would prefer them to be remembered, and as a result there is a lovely legacy of landmarks ranging from giant cows to well...  a Castle!    Dating from the late twentieth century, who is to say that in another half a millenia it won't be on the world heritage list?

Bli Bli

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Mount Coolum at 100 kph

It was the car travelling at a hundred, not the mountain.   The cane fields in the foreground have been abandoned, and like all good abandoned cane fields will soon magically be transformed into a golf course.

Mudjimba (I think!)

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Golf Course Car Park

I suspect that there may have been the odd angry driver returning to a broken windscreen.

Or maybe this was a pre-emptive structure?

Coolum Resort

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Figs

This avenue of fig trees was almost impossible to photograph in the available light with their monochromatic grey trunks.  I almost discarded the shot, and then I happened upon the black and white rendering.

Coolum

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Buggies

A slow day on the course.

Coolum

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Skewer

Given all the safety precautions one must abide by in this day and age, the beak on the Humber's hood ornament looks positively threatening.

Coolum
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Humber

Humber Grille: attached to a vintage Humber in the Porte Cochere of the Palmer Coolum Resort.

Coolum

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Adequate sufficiency

As legend has it, the power produced by a Rolls Royce engine is never described in anything as vulgar as a numerical figure, instead it is said to be sufficient.

I suppose therefore one never discloses the number of said machines one owns, but more than one would be an adequate sufficiency I suspect.

Palmer Coolum Resort
Coolum

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Silver Grill With Trees

Another day, another photograph of "my" Roller.

Palmer Coolum Resort
Coolum


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Sky reflected in a small boy's dream..

When I was a small boy, I dreamed of one day owning a Rolls Royce with paint so shiny one could see the sky reflected in it.   As I grew up, my aspirations changed, and Clive Palmer bought "my" Rolls.

Coolum.

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The Senator

He's called "the Senator" by sculptor Bert Flugelman and he stands proud in the grounds of the Coolum Resort, full of dignity, but one just can't help get the feeling that in his pouch is a stash of brown paper bags.....

Coolum
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A Day at the Dentist

Clive Palmer's dinosaur has a visit from the dentist.

Palmer Coolum Resort
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Thinking about one more

The last of the sun picks up the water as the young body boarder looks for one last wave in the shallows to get him ashore.

A rare black and white effort from me, because there truly wasn't much colour left in the day!

Moffat Beach

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Dead or Dying

I'm not sure what more evidence Council requires that the Pandanus trees on Moffat Headland have been badly impacted by the Jamella plant hopper, or perhaps by  bacteria Phytoplasma australiense  but whatever the case this one is in a very sad state indeed.

It's actually sad to watch as well, as one by one the trees succumb.   Hopefully others will be planted to replace them.

Moffat Headland


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Sails

The Mooloolaba Yacht Club has seen good times and bad, re-building after a dose of bankruptcy, the new paint job should take it into the next decade, and there seems to be a little patch of blue sky on the horizon...

"All the best!"

Mooloolaba

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Old Nautical Joke

I'm afraid if a joke needs explaining then it's not terribly funny, but this is what I saw in an age where warning signs outnumber actual useful ones:

On a yacht tender, the rope which ties the dinghy to the boat, shore or any immovable object is called a "painter".    I saw the sign and the "rope" behind it running off to the house across the road, and my terribly mixed up mind immediately thought........ well it was mildly amusing to me....

Kawana

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Reception

The reception area in the Coolum Resort is filled with vintage cars, harking back to another era - the era which its owner is attempting to recreate by building a replica of the Titanic.

For fun and profit.

Coolum

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