Green

Anything green is my scene.

Kawana.

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Back yards

The problem with medium density housing is that it's so medium density.   To my mind it's neither fish nor fowl - far better to add a few floors and reduce the building footprint.  That would give us all a bit more space on the ground, and from this vantage point even a view to the passage!

Caloundra

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On any Sunday

Another horrid day in paradise.

Trying to sit in peace with our fish and chips, distracted by all the activity!

Bulcock Beach
Caloundra

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Party party party

I wonder if the weather held?

Caloundra

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Tangled Web

As one who has lived for some considerable part of his life on and beside boats, I can attest that the clanking of rigging on hollow aluminium tube as the wind increases is not one of the most romantic sounds in the universe.

But for those who can become accustomed to it, it is no less reassuring and perhaps a little more musical than say the sound of the breeze rustling through the treetops.

Hmmm...

Bluewater Point
Kawana


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Desperately seeking Beach House

Another beach house classic.  The garden comprising croton and lawn almost entirely, the red paint of the highlights could almost have been left over from painting the tractor, and the lattice is tilted at an impossibly correct angle - is it positioned that way because it is about to fall down, or does it deliberately match the angle of the patio columns?

Another beach house for the album!

Caloundra


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Wot no Ammo?

In the good old days, when men were men and fauna was in danger (as opposed to endangered), the sign would have read "Cigs, Bait, Ammo and Ice".

Now cigarettes are served from bland grey cabinets and ammunition is not commonly available, but a litre of milk maketh the man, and he can always use the phone card to tell his friends on Facebook about the one that got away.

Caloundra


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Spotto Lighthouse!

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Beware

For some reason, perhaps it's the angle of its dangle, even though I suspect that any dog as old as this sign may well be incapable of inflicting damage, I don't really want to test it!

Caloundra

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Tall

Another building never to be repeated.

The mock horror of the community after this approval in the seventies led to a blanket ban on buildings over a few stories in height.   I don't understand the logic (or lack of it), surely a tall building surrounded by a huge amount of open space is better than mid-rise buildings spread over what appears to be much of the town?

I can see one or two things I find far more visually repugnant,  but they are public amenities, and therefore "lovely"!

Caloundra
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Always greener.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

So it would seem, are the other plants.

Moffat Beach

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The Summer Equinox

For those who have never seen an equinox, I am told it appears as a flash of light across a beach!

In our part of the world, the sun sets in high summer sometime before seven in the evening, by March it has gone well before six, but in our modern world, technology has rendered the passing of the sun to be of little consequence.

The beach at Mooloolaba is illuminated no doubt to a level which meets some obscure safety standard, so that in the evening, people can go about their leisure activities as though immune to the forces of the night slowly enveloping the rest of the world.

As the days begin to become noticeably shorter, in our household thoughts once again turn to travelling to the hemisphere where the opposite effect is to be experienced, a place where this equinox signals lengthening days and hopefully warming weather.   It is again time for us to adopt the habits of the migratory creatures that we have become and prepare to depart to the opposite end of the earth.

There, we will find that summer awaits once more!

Mooloolaba

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Business Park

The dead heart of Moffat Beach.

Do I need to spoil the punch line by explaining that the business park is actually a couple of blocks away?

Moffat Beach.

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Red

There's been a lot of green about over the past few days, so I thought it was time for some red.

Bottle Brush
Moffat Beach

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Golf

Fairway, Caloundra Golf Club.

I'm not sure that there's anything else to be said!
Caloundra
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Work Happening

Perhaps it's the thought of spring around the corner in the opposite half of the world, more likely it's the prospect of a spell with less rain, but whatever the reason, there are signs all over the suburbs that there is work to be done and things are in readiness.

Cans of paint, piles of gravel and garden mulch abound.

Actually it's time to refresh this site as well I suspect!

Shed, Dicky Beach

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Reflecting on five years

I began this blog on the 15th March 2008, on the day that the three former councils of Noosa, Caloundra and Maroochy were merged by State Government decree into one large "City".

Five years later, the residents of Noosa have succeeded in forcing a de-amalgamation, leaving the southern two-thirds of the region once again in a state of forming a "new" City.   It will retain the same name, and so will this blog.

When the towns were first merged, I was unsure what it was that I was trying to capture.   We are a new community living in a newly created environment.  Our oldest buildings, few though they may be, are less than a century old, and it is unlikely that any of them will see the end of this century.

On the other hand, as if to reflect the transience of the population of the town, our own life has taken a turn in that time.  While we still call this place "home", we now live in a world of perpetual summer, alternating between northern and southern hemispheres, moving with the tides and sometimes with the wind.  Now "the Coast" as the Sunshine Coast is known locally is more our place of refuge from our travels, a place we visit for four or five months a year, so this blog cannot be a place to publish the latest news, rather it will become a collection of my impressions of the time we spend here.

That in itself may shape the photos and my approach in the coming years, we will see.   In the meantime I would like to thank all who are visitors, regular or otherwise for your support and comments.   I REALLY do appreciate them!

Here's to the next five years!


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The road from Noosa

Actually this is a view of the pathway in the National Park, as the sun sets.

My last post from Noosa, perhaps not ever, after all there is still quite an administrative process to follow, and something may yet prevent the restructuring of our city, but tomorrow will see our anniversary and the beginning of a new City as far as this blog is concerned.

Noosa National Park

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North Shore

As the sun sets on National Park, I am reminded that in the past five years, for one reason or another, mostly to do with the fact that access isn't all that easy, I actually haven't been to the "North Shore", and the Cooloola coloured sands on the northern side of the Noosa River.

Oh well, if the de-amalgamation fails, I'll go there first thing!

Noosa National Park.


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deja vu

Yes yes, I know it's pretty much the same view as yesterday, but I won't be back to National Park for quite some time, so I have to milk it for everything it's worth!

Noosa National Park

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Misty

No, it's not our eyes going misty at the thought of Noosa leaving us, it's the evening sea mist rolling in over the national park.

Noosa Heads.
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Hey Mum!

Texting home, from Noosa National Park.

Noosa Heads

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Grave Days

Perhaps the sign wasn't really meant to indicate that the Caloundra Cemetery is truly a business park, but today may well herald the death of the Sunshine Coast as we have known it!

Today, the people of the former Noosa Shire were given the opportunity to vote for de-amalgamation of the Sunshine Coast Council and have effectively voted to succeed!  After five years as one City, one third of us is leaving!

For this blog, it means little, fifteen kilometres or so less coastline to cover, and some pretty scenery, a market or two that will remain unphotographed, but plenty of the good bits are left to share.

The timing of the separation is not yet known, but I think I may bid Noosa a Ceremonial farewell on the 15th March, our fifth anniversary!


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Mellow

Traditional beach-side buildings often comprise an eclectic mix of elements thrust together over the years as bits wore out, or other parts were scrounged or donated.  I'm not sure if the current trend to thrust together eclectic bits of detail and material is going to achieve the same mellow patina.

Well actually I am sure.

It's not.  In the short term at least.

Moffat Beach.

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Sky of grey

I can only suppose that the roof sheeting is yet to be installed. If that is not the case the structure is disappointingly inelegant, but really I should wait until it's finished to pass judgement.

Moffat Beach

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Not so mellow yellow

 Only every second window warrants a shade, but sunglasses would be advisable to passers by on a sunny day!

Moffat Beach

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Sea of Green

 Supergraphics on new buildings are getting to some sort of crescendo I think, in a year or four the red will be a lovely pink, the green will have faded to pea, the blue to the palest of pastels, but we may not be able to see any of them anyway, as careful inspection shows a wire trellis carefully draped over the building.

It may actually end up a sea of green planting.

Moffat Beach

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Walking Home after the Fish and Chips

Walking home in the evening, with that storm hanging in the air, refusing to leave completely.

There is no need to fear the traffic after sunset in times like this, in wet weather after the holiday makers have gone!

Moffat Beach,
Caloundra

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Busy no more!

It's easy to see that the holidays are over.  Well and truly over.

Perhaps I spoke in haste yesterday when I said "not tonight".

Since there was no waiting, and the rain seemed to be at bay for a while, we thought we'd have the fish and chips after all!

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Fish and Chips

See that table under the tree?  Sometimes we sit there of an evening and eat fish and chips from the shop behind us.

Not tonight though, it's actually raining again.

Moffat Beach
Caloundra

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Cafe Chairs

We've had just on 1.2 metres (four feet) of rain since the 23rd of January, and today, while dry in spots didn't bring the sort of evening that was conducive to walking down to the fish and chip shop for a fix of deep fried unrecognisable.

But empty chairs are easy to photograph I suppose, if a little boring to converse with.

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