Hard Bits

We're not just about sparkling white beaches and perfect surfing breaks you know.

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Waves

Rocks and deep water.

Good for fish.

Good to photograph.

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Point Arkwright

Point Arkwright from Point Perry.

Yes indeed, Coolum is a very very pretty spot!

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Colours

While in this part of the world, we don't really experience the change of colours that marks the new seasons among deciduous trees, we do have many opportunities to find vibrant textures and colours through sunlit canopies. We just need to get closer to see it, that's all!

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Cupaniopsis

The Tuckeroo as it is known colloquially can develop into a large dense shade tree, but it's mostly found in exposed situations on the beach front where the wind burns it constantly keeping it neatly trimmed.

It's not often one gets to see the new growth in this state, completely pruned by the elements, or perhaps it's just not often one goes looking.

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Palms

Well when you've only got a few metres between your property boundary and your building, what else can you plant?

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Pigface revisited.

Here's my old favourite again; The pigface. With the light behind it it takes on an almost ethereal glow. Ahhh I love rubbish like this!

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Macaranga

The macaranga was not named after a latin dance craze, it is however, a rainforest primary species, which thrives on the edge of any forest or in pockets of light. It drops lots of debris, leaves, flowers and seeds, and has a relatively short lifespan, allowing stronger plants to grow up in it's shadow, feeding on the mulch it creates.

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Watch Out

A sign that really means what it says.

Even in some of our urban areas, wildlife can prove to be a hazard particularly after dark, and while a kangaroo may not win an argument with a car, in the event of contact at any speed, serious damage can occur.

I like the way the sign matches the colour of the gazanias down the road too.

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The Gazania

Well it's about time I featured the flower that sits in the Blog title box, and I do have a confession. In much of Australia it's a non native plant, a declared nuisance, just short of being an illegal one.

The furry seeds often blow into dunes and it is becoming a major environmental weed. It can tolerate light shade under Coastal Wattle which has a lifespan of about 8 years. On its death the Gazania beneath thrives in the extra light and prevents any regeneration of coastal native species.

Here though, as with many things, it's not only tolerated for the moment (until someone realises what it's doing) but it's planted as an ornamental species by our council! There is something deliciously symbolic in that, although surely I don't need to draw anyone's attention to the way our planners have stifled truly creative development in favour of imported models from the past century!

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Another Norfolk

Yes it is!

And the building is in the main commercial area of Peregian Beach.

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Tagged

I don't like giving publicity to vandalism, and I thought tagging was sooooo 1990, so I hope the grubs that have nothing better to do that tag someone else's building get their own foreheads tagged with a lump of timber!

It's a pity it makes such an interesting photograph, perhaps art really can come from complete rubbish!

Dear tagging vandal, with such a talentless display, perhaps you think about a different sideline.

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Leaving on an Airplane

If all has gone well, today we arrive back at the Sunshine Coast, probably on a plane a bit bigger than this one. It will be terrific to get back into a bit of routine after four months on the road, and we'll see what sort of a mess we've gotten into relying on remote postings for what turned out to be a rather extended period of time.

I know nought about aircraft so I know when I say here's an ultralight flying over the beach with nothing much to bump into, someone will enlighten me within minutes as to its manufacturer and probably even its date of birth!

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Ha! We can finally get rid of that annoying message at the foot of every post!

Folly Ceiling Panel 3 of 3

The Willy Wagtail.

Now I have to find a real one to photograph. That may take some real patience as I haven't seen them in the numbers depicted in this panel, not ever!

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Surely this is an Osprey! A seabird, or shorebird at least as photographed on my post in June

These birds are the most amazing fishermen, it's amazing what one can catch if one doesn't have webbed feet to contend with.

I'm not sure that there wasn't sinister intent in placing this panel between two depicting smaller birds which could also make a tasty meal for a raptor.

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Folly Ceiling Panel 1 of 3

The ceiling in yesterday's shelter has three etched panels providing some distraction from the view beyond. This one looks to me to be a butcher bird, although I'm sure an ornithologist will correct me if I'm wrong.

I was taken aback at first as I expected it to feature seabirds, then I thought about it, and the bush typically runs right up to the ocean in this neck of the woods, so of course it's entirely appropriate!

Point Perry
Coolum


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Point Perry Picnic Shelter

A modern folly I think.

There should be more of it!

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Green Means Go

And that's what's happening at Coolum Beach, Go Go Go as the old centre is being replaced by a brand new complex containing retail and apartments. Whatever did we do without all this scaffolding and wrapping of buildings?

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Confession Time

Hmmm... I couldn't just go in and take a photo could I? I left with two flavours of spectacular icy goodness.

As I was walking along savouring my wonderful concoction, I passed a certain international fast food outlet, which sells small cones of icecream. Hmm I could have bought seventeen of theirs for the same money, but it was worth it!

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More Gelati

Another day another Gelati Shop, this one at Coolum and it wasn't till I got home that I realised the little "candles" in the niche are actually buckets ready to fill with the luscious stuff.

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Giant Gelati Chair

The giant Gelati Chair isn't really, it just looks it from this angle but it does add a certain flavour to the Caribbean Dreams Gelati shop at Peregian.

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Steps Down

Once these stairs landed on metres of white sandy beach. Recent storm activity has taken its toll, but eventually nature will take its cours, and the beach will return.

Coolum

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Sunday Afternoon

Not a bad thing to be doing.

Coolum

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Uncertainty

I'm not sure why this surfer appears so concerned.

Perhaps it was the oyster clad rocks behind him and the thought of what the oncoming wave ahead might do.

Coolum

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Looking Down

There's nothing better than a warm rock after a cool dip.

Coolum

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Adonis

A rock, a wave and a few deep breaths.

Coolum

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Self Portrait without Wheels

Not five minutes after I'd taken yesterday's photo, I stumbled across one of those good old fashioned silly mirrors.

It's a sad reflection on one's body shape when one's distorted reflection turns out looking normal!

Coolum

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Self Portrait with Wheels

I really hate it when I find a hot rod VW in great condition, take a photo from a rather pleasing angle (if I do say so myself) then get home and find I'm crouching in the bumper bar.

Coolum

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Wheels

Well if you aren't old enough to drive, how else do you get to the beach?

Peregian

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Surfing Scars

It was once a common sight to see vehicles with rust patches on their roofs after years of carrying surfboards. I'm not sure whether it's a sign of a more affluent era, or just that surfboards tend to be rinsed and kept in covers these days, that this sort of damage is no longer so common.

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