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Thursday 28 February 2013

Hibiscus


The last hibiscus standing after this week's rain, and I had to reach as high as I could to get even this view!   The hibiscus rivals only the frangipani for a flower that says "coast and to heck with where it comes from".

Definitely not an Australian Native!

Moffat Beach.

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Wednesday 27 February 2013

Grass Seeds

Indulge me here, it's been years since I went all flowery!   Here are seed pods from Kangaroo Grass, can you guess which country it is native to?

Dicky Beach.

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Tuesday 26 February 2013

Monday 25 February 2013

Autumn Tones

Well yes, to be fair they are Autumn tones, but notice a few things:

It's still summer.

There are no leaves on the trees to speak of,

All of the coloured bits are in fact new shoots popping out of the main branches of the trees.

This is new growth, appearing after the trees were stripped of their leaves in last month's storms, just as they would had the trees been ravaged by bushfire.

It's impossible not to be constantly fascinated by this country!

Dicky Beach

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Sunday 24 February 2013

Furrowed Fields

The grand puppy runs across the freshly swept sand which could quite easily fool one into thinking one was in the middle of a freshly ploughed field if it wasn't for all that ocean just a few metres away.

Moffat Beach

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Saturday 23 February 2013

Cleaning

It's still too early for the sun to have made an impression, but already the tractor has been round cleaning the beach.   I am not sure exactly how much there is to clean, as there is little litter to be seen at the end of even the busiest day, but every bit helps I suppose.

Moffat Beach

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Friday 22 February 2013

Not dead

They aren't dying either, the dune vegetation has been stripped of its leaves by the storms last month, and regrowth is just starting to appear on some of the branches.

That fluffy dog refuses to get out of the shot!

Moffat Beach

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Thursday 21 February 2013

Morning Textures

The sun disappears for a second in the early morning, and I'm not sure if the sand hasn't gone the colour of Belgium.   Or is it that I haven't quite got the hang of colour balancing the new camera?

Perhaps.

Moffat Beach

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Wednesday 20 February 2013

Socialising

"Dogs allowed off-leash between 4:00pm and 8:00am".

It's a great place for the dogs of the neighbourhood of all shapes and sizes to let off a bit of steam, and for their owners to simply stand and chat until curfew.

The sun is out, and the wind is building!

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Tuesday 19 February 2013

Watching grass grow

I have a new camera and am just dying to get out and see if it works, but since it arrived our daily rainfalls have been 50, 42, and 72 mm respectively.   That's 2, 2 3/4 and 3 inches near enough, so the closest I can actually get to "out" is onto our front verandah between squalls.

The bare patches  in the lawn were badly burnt before the rain started, but now I suspect it may have actually drowned.

Sigh.

If tomorrow's post is similar, I will have no need to explain why!

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Monday 18 February 2013

Tracery

The leaves on this monster Moreton Bay Fig trace their lace-patterns on the evening sky while below the multi trunks groan and creak as they rub against each other when the wind blows, but it stands undamaged, shadowing the road, and feeding the flying foxes!

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Sunday 17 February 2013

Heading Home

Packing up to go home at the end of a long day.

Shouldn't take too long.

Moffat Beach
Caloundra


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Saturday 16 February 2013

Wading to the beach

It's not as bad as it looks, sure the storm surge brought exceptionally high tides and our boardwalk which takes us safely under the road to the beach was just a smidgen too low to stay dry.   The slope of the deck makes it look much worse than it was though.

Tooway Lake
Moffat Beach

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Friday 15 February 2013

The calm before the Storm

On any day a month or two ago, the mouth of Tooway Creek looked a lot like this!

See yesterday's post for it's "new" appearance immediately afterwards.   Happily, it is now well on its way to recovery.

Tooway Creek
Moffat Beach

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Thursday 14 February 2013

The calm after the storm

Regular visitors may recall any number of photographs taken at the mouth of Tooway Creek, or Lake, depending on the time of week.

This one was taken the day after the storms had subsided, but with a monster sea still roaring "outside". What was once a calm bathing lagoon populated by small children is, for the time being at least, a deep hole devoid of anywhere to sit along its edges.

Tomorrow I shall post the same view taken a few days before the storm.

Tooway Creek
Moffat Beach

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Wednesday 13 February 2013

Milking it

 When one's home beach has been subjected to a one in one hundred year storm, one can be excused for milking it for all it's worth for a week or two!

Moffat Beach the day after, bathed in foam.

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Tuesday 12 February 2013

Oddly Tropical


Mid-storm, the pandanus trees have been neatly pruned, and the rain is heavy enough to take the sting out of what would usually be quite a vibrantly coloured seascape.

Kings Beach
Caloundra
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Monday 11 February 2013

Oblivious

As the storm rages around him, one lone swimmer enjoys the sanctity of the pool at Kings Beach.

Kings Beach
Caloundra

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Sunday 10 February 2013

Surviving

I arrived minutes before the umbrellas were removed, but I was taken by the colour, or perhaps the lack of it.   I have published photos before of these umbrellas, against a brilliant blue sky, with the water in the pool a stunning turquoise.

I guess the rain just washes the colour away!

Kings Beach
Caloundra

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Saturday 9 February 2013

No longer under sand


A week ago the park was a sandy garden, with no paths.  

I suspect the orange machine has had no small part to play in its reparation.  Either that, or there has been a visit from someone who is heavily into extreme sandcastles.

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Friday 8 February 2013

Business as Usual

After sunset yesterday, and the beach pictured in yesterday's post has been restored naturally.  The sandy slopes however have had a bit of a helping hand.

In a few more days, no one will have cause to remember nature's fury.   I suspect it's a bit like childbirth - with each new event the pain is quickly forgotten in the face of the pleasure it brings!

Tooway Creek
Moffat Beach

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Thursday 7 February 2013

Precarious


Less than two weeks ago, what once was a placid lake and a sandy slope down to the beach was a raging mess, intent on sweeping away all before it.

Eventually the sand behind the protecting rocks below the house was attacked, but it remained unharmed.

Tooway Creek
Dicky Beach

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Wednesday 6 February 2013

Time flies when you're having fun.

In the twilight, almost half way through the second month of the year a fisherman stands and wonders where the time has gone!

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Tuesday 5 February 2013

After the Australia Day Storm



The Norfolk Pines on the right are the very same that were pictured on the left yesterday.   What a difference a week makes!   No beach umbrellas today, and Dicky Beach is all but invisible through a cloud of haze, so with the mouth of Tooway Creek all but consumed by ocean, here is Moffat Beach again!


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Monday 4 February 2013

Down on Dicky


It was just before a long weekend so  where else would one go?   Dicky Beach is "holiday busy" mid January, and the wreck of the Dicky is visible amid the crowd (to the right of the shot, at the water's edge).

More than anything, this photo illustrates just how much the urban sprawl is encroaching on our way of life!

Dicky Beach
Caloundra

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Sunday 3 February 2013

And now the grass is gone


 The pandanus tree of yesterday can be seen through the fork of the tree in centre frame.  What was once a grassy park with pebbled paths meandering through it is now buried under a foot of sand.

The cleanup has commenced though, and a small army of machines is working to place the sand back on the beach where it belongs.

Moffat Beach
Caloundra
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Saturday 2 February 2013

Pandanus by evening

Even in the evening half light the pandanus finds some shade to throw over the grass.  I have no idea how as the sun was well below the horizon, but it does.

Just a week ago, when I took this photo, the poor grass was crying out for just a drop of rain, anything at all to relieve its thirst.

In the interim, three hundred millimetres of it per day for a few days should have fixed that,  instead it brought with it huge seas and moved the beach over the trees.

Tomorrow I shall post the "now".

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Friday 1 February 2013

Umbrellas

After the weather we've been having, there is probably not an umbrella game to show its face lest it should be turned inside out, so here's a photo of some wall art in Memory Lane.

Memory Lane
Caloundra

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