Something Old, Something New.

I hope it is the cleverness of the designer of the new house to be blamed for the similarity in proportions to its neighbour, and not some happy accident.

Actually even if it's a happy accident, the two wildly contrasting styles of building sit quietly together, just the way things should in a diverse urban streetscape!

That's what the planning books say anyway, and in this case I agree with them.

Moffat Beach



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Chicken, Egg.

I smile every day as I pass this sign and the swing over the water at Tooway Lake.

The swing is difficult to see, but the stick that appears to be floating is actually a handle designed for the brave to hold onto while swinging from the bank into the water.  The swinging rope is near invisible sadly, but the one below the stick enables it to be dragged shoreward for the next "swinger".

So the question must be asked:  What came first, the sign or the swing?

Tooway Creek
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Green Bumps

In contrast to yesterday's photo of brown lumps, today they are green!

This little patch of lawn deserves watching, as it matures the thatch will join and it will turn into a lumpy, no-mow lawn.  It's a Korean species I think, but it seems to be just the thing for a small low care garden!

I shall return next year to check on progress.

Moffat Beach


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And another thing....

While I'm in the mood for peevish protest:

Council sets a high standard for private developers when it comes to landscaping and the need to incorporate indigenous species and even more importantly to maintain them to a proper standard.

Why then, does it pay enormous amounts of money to have it's own landscaped areas planted to those standards, and not educate those who must maintain them?   The planting at Tooway Creek has been decimated by over zealous use of the whipper snipper and glysophate!

The little brown clumps are native grasses, planted in a revegetation project and happily killed by the maintenance guys.  The green lumps, well they are weeds.

Why?

Tooway Creek

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How it begins....

Our Council generally does a great job, dispatching graffiti as quickly as it arrives, but every now and then expedience should not be the priority.

The polished concrete surface on the bridge for instance, is already sealed in some sort of "anti-vandal" coating, so why wouldn't "Mr Grey Paint" not think to himself that there may be a better solution - like cleaning off the mess rather than leaving one grey panel on the bridge?

I will never understand!

Tooway Creek

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Being Prepared

I am not sure if our plumber carries his surfboard with his other gear in case the waves become irresistible at lunch time, or whether he thinks he can use it as a sort of life raft if a leak gets really bad.

Somewhere on the Sunshine Coast.

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Shades of Grey

Modern beach house geometry.

Moffat Beach

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Wave Gate

It's the colour that throws me off.  Is the gate meant to evoke the movement of the ocean, ripples at sunrise perhaps, or is it just that the guy who built it didn't have straight steel (or ocean coloured paint)?

Perhaps I should just enjoy it for what it is.

Shelly Beach

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Bollards

I am not sure why someone made the decision to place a row of bollards separating the grassed nature strip from the other side of the grassed nature strip, but I'm glad that when they did, they went to some trouble to make them note/photo worthy.

Shelly Beach

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Tangled Web

The coastal banksias do a good job of keeping the riffraff from the northern end of Shelly Beach!

Thicket
Shelly Beach

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Waste

One of the fundamentals of good street furniture design is that an object's function should be immediately recognisable without the need for big red signs on the side!

Hmmm.... I wonder what that black box with the curved roof and silver trim is for.

Moffat Headland

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Queen of the Colonies

The "Queen of the Colonies" monument on Moffat Headland takes the form of a Pandanus tree and roots with the name of the ship carved on it.  While the tree has long gone, the concrete replica remains.  The plaque reads as follows:-

On the 8th April 1882 the ship Queen of the Colonies sailed into Moreton Bay.  A woman passenger had died and it was decided to take the body to Cape Moreton for burial.
While returning, a storm arose, the ship was lost to sight and the small boat was driven onto rocks below this spot.
The survivors were marooned for fourteen days living on shell fish and berries until rescued by a search party from Brisbane.
One of the sailors carved the name "Queen of the Colonies" on the pandanus tree. This led to their rescue.
This plaque was presented by the descendants of Captain Robert Cairncross.

Moffat Headland

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Pigface?

Horror!  I'm too lazy to look up the actual name of this plant, but anything succulent is called Pigface isn't it?

Perhaps this is Mini-Pigface.  I shall find out I suppose and make a note!

Moffat Beach

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Mooloolaba Textures 3

Another of the same, but different of course.   I will stop now, and head off in search of blue skies and swimming costumes!

Mooloolaba
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Mooloolaba textures 2

The full picture, picnic shelter, surfboard seats, pandanus and even the loo with a view in the background.

But the shipping bollards still grate.

Mooloolaba

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Mooloolaba Textures

I promised them a few days ago, and here they are.

In the screen, waves turn into skis and then to body surfers before becoming fish.  Or is it just a random pattern?   But what is the bollard doing on the beach front a hundred kilometres from where a ship can stop?

Mooloolaba

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The sea of a thousand rubbish bins

It's just a nostalgic indulgence this photograph of a thousand rubbish bins, but I have to do it every few years none the less.   The brick ones are full of concrete now, but they are still there.

We could do with a drop of rain though, to freshen up the lawns!

Mooloolaba

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Return to the Rock Beach

It's been a while since I've been to Mooloolaba with my camera, so a simple shot of Point Cartwright over what my grandson calls "The Rock Beach" will remind us of what it is like.

Mooloolaba

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Bolt Shop Sculpture

I was buying some bolts and this gorgeous pallet was lying against the wall.

I wanted to take it home, but wasn't sure if the other of us would enjoy it quite as much if it were sitting in our living room.

Maroochydore

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Texture

If you had told someone to paint your meter box so that it would fade in a  sort of stripe and show the marks where you'd started each brush stroke, perhaps to evoke a feeling of racing yachts on a windy day, could they have done it?

My fear is that not everyone sees this as art, and it will soon be painted over once again.

Maroochydore

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Heritage

This little dragon was once a water play device, then after years of drought it became a play structure.  It was brightly coloured and has featured on this very blog several times in the past.

Now it is cream and is a heritage play area.   I'm not sure what that means, but I do know that I like it now while at the same time being not quite to terms with the loss of colour.

Mooloolaba

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Pastel

I could fairly be accused of being ungrateful if I were to complain about an over abundance of clear blue skies and sharp shadows, so I will just happily say that I really quite like the days when the skies are a little grey and the colours muted.

Mooloolaba

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More Danglies

Still hanging outside the shop, still nonplussed at the hopelessness of their situation, surely someone will buy them and put them out of their misery?

Montville

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Looking in or looking out?

Is this frangipani really on tiptoes spying through the window?

I guess not, but what else can I say by way of description?  It's a tree and a window with another tree and some sky behind.

Montville

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Foretaste

Textures of the beach, surfboard seats, screens that make patterns on the ground and trees that do the same.

I have a handful of these shots, and I have decided to foist them on you in a week or two, this is just the taster!

Mooloolaba

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Dingly Dangly Things

A bunch of singly dangly toys hang humiliatingly exposed to the whim of anyone with a camera, and they don't all look happy about it do they?

I kept this shot because of the weird lighting, dark brick paving over-exposed to the extent that it would pop the eyes of a hippopotamus.

Montville shopping.

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Coastal Pathway

Cut out signs like this are a nightmare to photograph because the background often makes the letters unreadable.   That is why there is no pathway in view, but rest assured it exists and it follows the coast for its full length (give or take) and really we should all use it daily!

 One day I shall take my camera and travel the fifty kilometres or so taking photographs just like this, every few hundred metres.

I promise!

Moffat Beach

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Rubbish!

I took this photograph after the last weekend in January and it's taken me until now to calm down.   I give the nice people credit for having gathered all their rubbish and put it in their broken inflatable pool, but how does that help anyone really, leaving the job half done?

Someone has to pick it up by hand and dispose of it.  If it fitted in the car to get them to the beach then it would fit in the car to take it home again!

If I knew where they lived I'd happily return the favour with a tidily constructed pile of debris in their back yard!

Moffat Beach

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Tooway Creek - AGAIN (rolls his eyes)

I never get tired of this view, which is just as well because I walk past it a couple of times a day just for fun.  It's the way the colours constantly change that gets me.

Pastels

Tooway Creek

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Flower

I don't know what's come over me... I just felt the urge to take a photograph of a flower.   I used to do that all the time.  Might do it again soon!

Landsborough

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People on the Street

Today's City Daily Photo theme is "People on the Street" but I was in Kenilworth when I took this shot, so I'll just have to make do with "person on the street".

Kenilworth

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