A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Sunday 31 August 2014

Note to file.


It may be very cool to hang upside-down from the roof while creating your art, but the outcomes may be affected!

Wall art,

Marcoola

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Saturday 30 August 2014

Not Sure


I suspect this is a pair of starfish errr..... being very close.   Do starfish get very close to one another?

Maybe it's a ten legged octopus with no body... yes that could be it.

Or maybe there's a very deep and meaningful thesis floating around on the artist's intent, I don't care, I like it.  

Marcoola

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Thursday 28 August 2014

Fun with plant names


This little guy is about thirty centimetres tall.  He's a casuarina of course, a small version of the she-oak, whose common name is "Cousin Itt", named after the character of similar appearance in the almost ancient television series "The Addams Family."

If you don't believe me, you can look it up!

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Wednesday 27 August 2014

Real Men


Real men need monster four wheel drives to get through hedges.

Marcoola

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Tuesday 26 August 2014

Back to civilisation


Returning from the beach, the transition is just as interesting as the first five story building comes into view, but it's the opposite experience to the excitement and anticipation one feels when the first glimpse of blue water appears between the trees on the outbound journey.

Marcoola

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Monday 25 August 2014

Watercolour Sky


It looks dark and miserable, and the reality is that I am wearing jeans as a sop to the cold, and have bare feet and no need of any other protection than a thin tee shirt with a moustache printed on it.

Looking south towards Mudjimba

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Sunday 24 August 2014

Red jumper


It's amazing to be able to live in a place amid a moderately sized community, yet have the opportunity of being alone on the beach whenever I choose.  Alone, except that is for the fellow in the red jumper walking towards me.

Perhaps he will complain that I've interrupted his solitude.

Marcoola

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Saturday 23 August 2014

Gateway


Even on a day when the weather is unsettled and the sun buried deep above the clouds, the little paths that wind through the dunes to the beach hold a special fascination.

They provide a wonderful transition from the harsh realities of the built environment, to the natural fantasies at the oceans edge.

Marcoola

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Friday 22 August 2014

Coastal Banksia - 3

Best of all are the seed pods, after the "hairy bits" have been shed, the seed pods site patiently waiting for a fire to spring them open and start the germination process.


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Thursday 21 August 2014

Coastal Banksia - 2


A little earlier, before they get to the "bottle brush" stage, the flowers are really quite beautiful in another way; robust and plastic like.


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Wednesday 20 August 2014

Coastal Banksia - 1


I think Banksias in all their forms might just be my favourite flowers.

Maybe it's their haircut that reminds me of my own.

Marcoola

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Tuesday 19 August 2014

Colour


On a bright sunny day, this building used to stand out just a bit.   I suspect that the owners will eventually realise the folly of painting a building in colours that fade, and it too will join the sea of amorphous white that adjoins it.

Marcoola

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Monday 18 August 2014

What's in a name?


I guess this is proof that they aren't called "plumbers" because they run things perfectly vertical every time.


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Sunday 17 August 2014

Potential.


Vacant land on the beach front means only one thing: it's a SITE!

How long will it be until someone takes advantage of it?

Marcoola

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Saturday 16 August 2014

The grumps continue.


Mount Coolum is one of the few things that qualifies as a natural landmark around these parts.

It's a pity it can't be seen all that well behind the barrier of power lines.  Perhaps they are more indicative of where we live.

Marcoola

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Friday 15 August 2014

Strange bedfellows


I'm not sure if I get it, nor if I like it even.   I am usually a fan of structured topiarised gardens and they look wonderful in front of seventeenth century French Chateau, but the thought of tweaking Australian native plants into these unnatural shapes somehow takes something away from it all.

I don't know why.

Mudjimba

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Thursday 14 August 2014

Wall Art


I like the thought here, the wave that could very well be beach, the background that could very well be ocean, the pandanus tree, the leaf.... no, I am not quite sure what the leaf represents, nor do I have a clue about the ice-cream cone with the purple prickles in it.

But I like the thought.

Mudjimba

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Wednesday 13 August 2014

Cynical recycling.


On the back of the airport carpark ticket there is a voucher to enable one to purchase two small bottles of water for and amazingly expensive six dollars.

Of course to redeem the voucher one would have to spend more time in the terminal, pushing up the cost of parking, and if the voucher were to be taken on redemption, who knows how expensive the parking would be with a "lost ticket'.

Perhaps I'm just grumpy because I'm thirsty.

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Tuesday 12 August 2014

Air Fans


There are ceiling fans at the airport which must be close the larges in existence.

They are very aeronautical in flavour too, being a little reminiscent of a cross between an ancient radial engine and the wings of a jumbo jet.

And the place is airconditioned too.

I wonder what their purpose is?

Sunshine Coast Airport

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Monday 11 August 2014

Finding the car.


At the airport, the carpark is neat and sub-tropical and holiday landscaped.  There are even shade structures every so often to provide shelter of sorts.

At this point, I was wondering if I had made it within the seven minutes that would have allowed me to park for free,

Seven minutes!  Who thinks this stuff up?  I'll bet there was some sort of survey carried out which showed that the average visit is seven minutes and thirty seconds.

Sunshine Coast Airport.

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Sunday 10 August 2014

The arrival experience


When one arrives at the Sunshine Coast, the arrivals lounge such as it is, is located in the baggage collection area, but the welcome sign is large, the one marking the toilets clear, and there is a large koala with a sore arm begging for money.

It is so quiet that even with one other person in the building it would have seemed a little more bustling.

Sunshine Coast Airport
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Saturday 9 August 2014

The picture doesn't do it justice.....


I tried an experiment.   I thought I'd make these photos look as though they were taken by a tired traveller arriving on a flight.

That worked!

The walkways between Arrivals and Departures are, I must admit, much prettier than this photo would have one believe, but I'm not going to spend another five dollars to take a photo when the light is better.  This series has cost me a dollar a shot after all!

Sunshine Coast Airport

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Friday 8 August 2014

This is no LAX


Even the least sophisticated traveller can see that this is not Los Angeles.  The traffic is travelling in the wrong direction for a start.   Actually the traffic is on gazillionth of what one would expect in LA (or perhaps any other airport in the world for that matter!)

Sunshine Coast Airport

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Thursday 7 August 2014

Welcome!


Airports are not usually happy places for me, they are busy and dirty (even the clean ones) but this one is different.   It only serves a few commercial flights per day, and when it's not awake, it's very much asleep!

The flag, by the way, is the state flag, that of Queensland.

Sunshine Coast Airport.
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Wednesday 6 August 2014

The Five Dollar Fotos



It looks very much like a guard tower, perhaps they are on the lookout for bandits, but it's actually the cute little control tower at the Sunshine Coast Airport.

I went off on a hunt for photos in the rain, and thought "Airport".

That was my first mistake - parking is free for SEVEN minutes, the nine I was there cost five dollars, and I could have stayed for another two hours if I hadn't been so lonely.

Sunshine Coast Airport

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Tuesday 5 August 2014

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Sunday 3 August 2014

The View North Again



The view north from Moffat Beach, on a day without waves.

Moffat Beach to Mooloolaba

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Saturday 2 August 2014

Two


Two trees, two people, two garbage bins.

Two minutes of your time.

Wasted!

Moffat Beach

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Friday 1 August 2014

Take Away Store


Colloquially, newsagents are referred to as "paper shops", because they sell newspapers.

 I wander past very early in the morning.  I pass the mat proclaiming "Welcome" and the message that implores me to "Win Big, right above the poster that reads "Woman Crushed by Car, Man Drowns", and wait for the nice lady to tell me to have a nice day.

Do I really want to take this sort of news away?

Dicky Beach
 
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