A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Thursday 30 September 2010

Piles


Old moorings, Noosa River, Tewantin


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Wednesday 29 September 2010

More Pelican Art


At the risk of posting too much of a good thing, here he is again going the other way!

For the curious, the white stripes are a pool fence, the green is a shade structure, and the blue the roof of a public toilet.  (Doesn't that just take away the magic!)

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Tuesday 28 September 2010

Pelican Art


With exactly the right background reflecting on the water, the old pelican seems to be floating on a painting.

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Monday 27 September 2010

Pelicans


Noosa Pelicans seem to be all sun bleached and faded.  The colour seems to be drained from their beaks.  I wonder if it's their family trait or if there's something in the water?

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Sunday 26 September 2010

The Bar


The mouth of the Noosa River has it all.  Fishermen, grassy banks, clear waters, palm trees, clear blue sky.

Not a bad spot to while away a few hours really.

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Saturday 25 September 2010

Noosa River Houseboats


To the chagrin of many who would rather look at the river than allow others to use it, there are places where the banks are lined with moored houseboats.   They are certainly not the most aesthetically pleasing watercraft, but they are a wonderful way of spending time on the river system.

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Friday 24 September 2010

Tewantin Houseboat Moorings


There's quite a fleet of houseboats for hire and otherwise at Tewantin, which once served as a paddle steamer port and is the gateway to the Noosa Lakes System and the Cooloola National Park.

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Thursday 23 September 2010

Moorings


They may look like fenders, but they are actually mooring buoys for the jetski fleet.

The stain in the water is tannin from the ti trees in the Noosa Lakes.

Noosaville
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Wednesday 22 September 2010

Learning the ropes


Actually Jetskis don't have any ropes, so this bunch are learning all sort of other things about using them responsibly.

Jetski lessons, Noosa River.
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Tuesday 21 September 2010

Glitter


I can't make up my mind whether I like this photo enough to post it.  I was trying to capture the sparkle of the river, and I think I did that, but whether that makes it worth the bandwidth is another thing.

That's a jetski ripping past by the way, en route to a jetski area.

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Monday 20 September 2010

Jet Skiing is not a crime


Unless of course one strays too close to the shore, makes too much noise, doesn't stick to the marked areas....  There are of course two sides to the argument, and both have their points to make!

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Sunday 19 September 2010

Seating for all


The outdoor seating at the gallery is... like gallery outdoor seating really, and it's ready for a typical modern family.  

Three parents and two children...

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Saturday 18 September 2010

Gallery Within


The Gallery is quite small, perhaps "intimate" would be a more galleryesque description, and the coffee corner is rather pleasant.

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Friday 17 September 2010

Regional Gallery


Below the Council Offices, one finds the Regional Art Gallery. Although this view technically is of the Council Offices, it looks arty enough to be a gallery I think.

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Thursday 16 September 2010

Regional Landscape


The gardens round the Regional Offices are quite pleasant, densely vegetated, allowing only glimpses of the building through the forest.

Tewantin
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Wednesday 15 September 2010

Council Offices


Noosa's Regional Council Office at Tewantin is the most pleasant of all the town centres, but is still suffers from that age old disease that inflicts all public buildings: The sticky taped notice in the window syndrome.

Why this happens I'm not sure, but I wish it wouldn't.

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Tuesday 14 September 2010

Paddles


Should we hire a kayak, or stay for coffee?  
Hire a kayak, or stay for a cool drink?

Noosaville

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Monday 13 September 2010

A Sea of Kayaks


Why isn't that the collective noun for Kayaks?  A Sea?
Part of the hire fleet at Noosaville.

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Sunday 12 September 2010

Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel


Coloured canoes and hire boats take no skill to photograph.   Just line them up and click and you'd have a pretty postcard if it wasn't for that bit of cable breaking through the sky!

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Saturday 11 September 2010

One more fishing fellow


Winter fishing off the old swimming enclosure at Tewantin.

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Friday 10 September 2010

Another Bloke Fishing


Gently retrieving the net, hopefully with a few little bait fish within, watching all the time for signs of prey out there.

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Thursday 9 September 2010

Bloke Fishing


Sometimes  I think people go fishing just to give themselves an excuse to wear their favourite hat.

Of course the best side of the river to fish from is the southern one, so that the sun is basking the front of one's body, but it's the most awful perspective from a photographer's point of view, looking into the light, body in shadow.... sigh, life is just hard!  (OK it's not, it's a lot of fun wandering around in the sunshine!)

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Wednesday 8 September 2010

Yep, Corellas


After "terrorising" the town, the birds all seemed to be heading to the park on the riverbank at Tewantin so I thought I'd stake them out.   They were all taking refuge in the dense foliage of the fig trees, so I couldn't get a shot in clear light, but they're corellas alright.   

I watched this pair preening themselves for several minutes, but they refused to move into clear light for me.

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Tuesday 7 September 2010

Corellas

From this distance they look and sound like white cockatoos, but technically they are corellas.  A particularly noisy bunch, they arrive by the dozen I have to say, and quite destructive if they feel like it, tearing apart seed pods and vegetation to get to their favourite foody bits.   They seem to like chewing on bits of timber trim and arriving en masse to harass shop customers with their squawking.

 This pair is having a spell on the roof tower at Woolies, Tewantin.


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Monday 6 September 2010

On any Sunday


Or on any weekend day for that matter, the parking bays are full of empty trailers, waiting patiently for the return of their boats.

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Sunday 5 September 2010

On the same theme


I wonder at the origin of wooden fish.  We have one or two of our own hanging around the place, but they make no sense at all.  They aren't decoys, and they don't taste at all like the sort of thing one would make a habit out of eating.

They do come in colours that seem to be ever changing to match the seasons though.

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Saturday 4 September 2010

Household Decor


Bits for Sale.  Everything seems to reflect the riverfront environment, although I'm not so sure about the need to keep cotton buds in fishnet.

Noosa River Marina.

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Friday 3 September 2010

River Decor


The seagulls are paid to sit on the mooring piles on the Noosa River.

It's good for tourism you see.

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Thursday 2 September 2010

Resting


Boats moored on the Noosa River at Noosaville.

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Wednesday 1 September 2010

The old baths.


All that remains of the old swimming enclosure at Tewantin is a few oyster encrusted supports.  It does add a little bit of historical texture to the waterfront too.

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