A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Sometimes I could drink it.


I've been a bit of a dull boy of late, in the sense of all work and no play.  My head's been buried in our little construction project for weeks with no respite, so today I decided to walk to the Post Office.

It was on the way home I noticed the greens were too green, the blues were too blue, the beach was too fantastic, and altogether I just wanted to eat it, and drink the wet bits.  And yes I have tweaked the colour a little, but only to show you what it really looked like!

A timely reminder of why I live where I live, and of how much I've missed over these last few weeks!

Moffat Beach


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Monday 27 February 2017

Alternative Facts


The sign says: " Welcome to Dicky Beach.  Dicky Beach is the only recreational beach in the world to be named after a shipwreck." It goes on about sharp protruding objects and the need to take care, but it's that first sentence that worries me a lot.

Messers Andrew D Short and Brad Farmer in their book "101 Best Australian Beaches" for instance tell us that there are at least fifty beaches in Australia alone named after shipwrecks.

Which version of the truth should we believe.   I live here, and I'd like to believe it were true, I really would so perhaps I will cling to the definition of the word "recreational" and pretend that no other beach named after a shipwreck is "recreational".  It must be what it feels like to live in the USA and  voted for a President in good faith.....

Dicky Beach

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Sunday 26 February 2017

Security


The latest in anti-theft.  Just leave a sign on your dashboard proclaiming things to be locked.  No chance of losing your key, no chance of theft..... although I suspect one needs an "unlocked" sticker to cover the other before one can get mobile.

Tooway Creek
Dicky Beach


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Saturday 25 February 2017

Good Moaning!


That's what getting out of bed seems to be these days: a lot of moans and groans as yesterdays work makes itself felt on a collection of creaky joints.

But the walk to the end of the street does a little to help one forget! 

Tooway Creek towards Moffat Beach


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Friday 24 February 2017

Old Skool Waterway


Lake Magellan, I can only guess at the origins of the name but can't find any connection between good old Ferdinand and Pelican Waters.  Perhaps this is where he retired.

None the less, the lake that bears his name is entirely artificial, bordered by houses and with just the barest perimeter of lawn, no cycle ways, no picnic shelters, just lawn and trees.   Oh for the good old days, (when spelling mattered!).

Caloundra


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Thursday 23 February 2017

Wonky Eight


Someone's letterbox, because I liked the way the number seems to be clinging on for dear life.

Pelican Waters

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Wednesday 22 February 2017

Colour in black and white


Two chairs, in a reverse of next month's theme day.

Golden Beach


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Tuesday 21 February 2017

A simple yellow glow.


Right next door to "Zanzibar"we find "Sirocco".  It too has a little spot where at exactly the right time of day, the light leaks through.

Oh dear... he took a photo of that?   Can't wait for tomorrow!

Mooloolaba,


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Monday 20 February 2017

Sunset on Zanzibar


I've just been playing with backlit of buildings without all that much success I have to say, but I like the way the sun glows through in some unexpected places.

Mooloolaba


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Sunday 19 February 2017

Unnamed bay.


 It occurred to me as I took this photo that I couldn't recall the name of this bay that forms the beach at Mooloolaba, despite years of living here and even more years of sailing on it.

Perhaps it's a worrying sign of ageing, or perhaps it's just a secret bay with no name.   I can say with a little certainty that the water is part of the Coral Sea though, although I've never understood the point in dividing a perfectly good ocean into a number of seas.  Perhaps it makes it feel more important.

Mooloolaba

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Saturday 18 February 2017

Another view from the Loo


On the lower boardwalk late in the afternoon.   I'd better stop the Loo with a View series right now, before the bad puns and rhymes get out of hand.

Mooloolaba


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Thursday 16 February 2017

The real thing.

 

Perhaps this is where the dolls of yesterday got their suntanning inspiration?

Mooloolaba


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Wednesday 15 February 2017

Sunbaking


Lying there in the sun, pretending to be enjoying themselves, we found these half-life sized dolls.

If Gulliver had found a pair of Barbie dolls in Brobdingnag during his travels and these were they, perhaps they are worth a fortune!

Maleny

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Tuesday 14 February 2017

Perpetual motion.



Call them "Trash and Treasure" or whatever you like, the fact remains that events such as this one at Maleny on the weekend are a sort of perpetual motion machine.

One goes to these things to trawl through other people's cast offs, to search for a "bargain" which will ultimately find its way into a cupboard, and then a few years from now, onto a table under an umbrella with a little price tag sticker attached.

Maleny
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Monday 13 February 2017

Traffic jam


I can't say why I took this photo nor what it may mean, but I hope the young boys trying to sell their collection at the car boot sale had great success.

Maleny


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Sunday 12 February 2017

Pastel.




Not the blue hour!  

Actually it's fine, hot, humid and there's a big swell running.  The sun is below the horizon and somehow it all looks about twenty degrees cooler than the thirty-eight it got to today!

Moffat Headland from the other direction.

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Saturday 11 February 2017

Not Fog


"Sea Mist" it's called, but really it's just salt hanging about in the humidity, rusting the workings of everyone's television set, to say nothing of their cars.

Afternoon in Shelly Beach


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Friday 10 February 2017

Parking Lot.


No need to take paradise and put up a parking lot, when you can park anywhere you like.

Shelly Beach



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Thursday 9 February 2017

Time to go.



I know, I know it's one of the basic rules of composition that the subject of the photo should appear to be walking "in" to it, but these guys were keen to get home.

Cute little matching body boards though.

Shelly Beach

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Wednesday 8 February 2017

Something Blue


In most places around the world the "blue hour" is arguably the best time to take photographs, occurring as it does around an hour before sunset or after sunrise.    

Well here, pretty much every hour is a "blue hour".

Just hanging about watching ships go by.

Caloundra

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Tuesday 7 February 2017

Yes it does.

Seriously?   

No warning about sand being gritty or water being wet though, perhaps we should sue!

Kings Beach.



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Monday 6 February 2017

Colour and texture, nothing more to see here.


Theres a whole lot of texture going on here, and the colours are muted because the sun is low in the sky and I'm looking into it more or less, but I like them none the less.  It makes a change from all that deep blue and vibrant green that is impossible to escape!

Kings Beach


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Sunday 5 February 2017

Pandanus Roots


Not much more to say really... nice, aren't they?

Kings Beach


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Saturday 4 February 2017

Differently Abled

I don't for one moment begrudge parking for disabled people, but I do begrudge those who are not disabled using them, and perhaps ask just a teensy question about appropriateness of location when I see one at the bottom of a long set of steps leading to a lookout!




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Friday 3 February 2017

Coastal Pathway


If one arrives at exactly the right time, the shadows from the trees behind make it look as though they are coming from the other direction.   Or is it just me?

Shelly Beach


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Thursday 2 February 2017

In case you missed it.


Actually it's not the same shot as last Tuesday's, but it was taken at the same time from the same place, or nearby at least.    I liked the odd lighting enough to risk posting a second shot.

Kings Beach


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Wednesday 1 February 2017

Loving life


Who's loving life more?  Miss six with a mouth full of missing teeth and gaps for more to grow into, salt in her hair and sand underfoot, or her grandparents happily feasting on her boundless optimism?

This month's City Daily Photo theme day is "Loving Life" and as ever you can see lots more on that theme at this link.

Dicky Beach


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