Children in the shade.

There are places where on nice cool sunny days, everyone would be on the grass in the sun.  This is not one of them.

Coolum

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Dappled

I'm lost for words!

Coolum
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Here he goes again...

This is the bit where I bang on once again about how bright the light is, and therefore how deep the shade is and therefore how pronounced the colours look if you are standing in the shade and looking out.

We take it all for granted, and at the same time wonder why our photographs have so much contrast in them!

Coolum

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Not Smart

It hasn't really occurred to me until now, but hanging around public toilets with a camera in my hand is probably not the smartest thing I've ever done.

Here's another shot of the Coolum amenities block anyway.

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Timber Textures

I can rely on Coolum to give me my "fix" of textured timber construction.  Here's a view of the public toilets near the beach.

Coolum

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The way we were.

Among all the crisp new buildings in Coolum, there are still one or two left to remind us of how things were.

Coolum

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Four

Four beautiful slots in one lovely letterbox.

Coolum

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Staples.

Coffee and surfboards, two of life's essentials.

Coolum

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The way it once was done

Once upon a time, the front face of commercial buildings was made beautifully, a facade if you will, to hide what was going on behind.

Behind, there was an honest presentation of the facts.

The brutal facts.

New buildings don't look like this!

Coolum
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Am I going loopy?

Or is this shadow note even the tiniest bit reminiscent of the form of a particular bridge in London?

Shadows, like clouds, can be whatever you want them to be.

Coolum

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Life on the Hill

An almost randomly framed photograph of life on Coolum Hill (not to be confused with Mount Coolum), really just to have a record of what it looked like in 2014.   It's a reasonable blend of building and tree I think.

Will it last like that?

Coolum

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Protected!

The scrub turkey could never be accused of being attractive, and if it wasn't a protected species, and didn't have a flesh that some suggest is reminiscent eating of old boots it could very well be on the endangered list, if only because pretty much every gardener who lives near the habitat of one of these guys would happily put it out of their (the gardener's) misery!

I'm not sure if they have any redeeming qualities, but the red is pretty.

Marcoola

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Turkeys!

They have been known to break the hearts of many a gardener, wild scrub (bush) turkeys like nothing better than to scratch vigorously in places that people would prefer they didn't.

Perhaps it would be tolerable if they stuck to one spot, but they don't!

Marcoola

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Irony

On the other side of this pathway there is a grass buffer and a naturally vegetated dunal system which the community conservation group works to maintain in its pristine state.

On the building side though, a well known international resort chain is happy to let "Singapore Daisy", a plant so damaging to the native environment that it is virtually banned from sale, run riot in the interests of ease of maintenance!

Marcoola.
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Community Nature Conservation

Community Nature Conservation is a Council initiative which allows community groups to tend for bushland areas in their neighbourhoods.  

The groups take responsibility for removing undesirable and noxious plants from the bushland areas, which are often prone to invasion from garden species, which compete with natural vegetation.

Here a few bags of some sort of exotic pest awaits collection.

Marcoola

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Once common

Years ago, the site of a vehicle slowly dying of rust was a common one.  Now they seem to be replaced long before the paint disappears.

The character of our town is changing in so many subtle ways.

Mooloolaba

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Romantic Mess

There's a romantic myth about boats and harbours and moorings, but the reality is that our perception ignores the reality.   Really, have a look at this photograph, they are just a mess of tangled stainless steel.

Mooloolaba

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Dimples

I have a pair of these thongs with the little dimples on them.

After wearing them for a day, I can go barefoot and not slip on any surface!

Mooloolaba

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Hire

Stand up paddle boars (SUPs) can be bought of course, but why buy when you can hire?

Mooloolaba

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Changing times

When I was small, occasionally there would be some sort of static "ride" installed outside a supermarket.  It would always be a horse that jigged up and down, occasionally it was a model of Roy Rogers' horse "Trigger".

Now the same rides are monster trucks with coyotes on their sides.  Where has the romance gone?

Mooloolaba

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A tale of two boats.

The sports cruiser sits like some sort of ornament at the bottom of the garden, while the trawler returns from a night's work.

Who is having the most fun with their boat I wonder?

Mooloolaba

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Who?

In this day and age, when a set of bathroom scales costs less than a cup of coffee, who actually would be desperate enough to part with one of their hard earned dollars to weigh themselves in public.

And why?

Mooloolaba

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Sinister

Is it just me, or is the friendly shark just a bit too creepy?   I tell my grandchildren not to trust it, that smile is a dead giveaway.

Mooloolaba

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Meanwhile back at the wharf...

I've been there many times before, but never noticed that the floor boards were left untrimmed to assist with the rustic flavour.

The peeling paint assists as well now!

Mooloolaba

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Waterway

A simple view across the river to Minyama Island.

Mooloolaba
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Modern Space Requirements

I thought about how affluence has changed our perception when I saw these two boats side by side.   The old yacht has less volume than just one hull of the modern catamaran, yet forty years ago it would have been the envy of all who saw it, the epitome of every man's cruising dream.

Now it's an uncomfortable relic, best suited as a model for romantic photographs of cruising sunsets, viewed from the air conditioned saloon of it's neighbour.

Mooloolaba


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Not Fake

Is there a word to describe something that looks so real it has to be fake?  This timber planter is actually weathered timber, but it looks so impossibly over detailed that I thought it was some sort of reproduction.

It probably started life as a sandblasted distressed finish which has exaggerated the grain over the years.  I'd like to see if I can do this at home.

Mooloolaba

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A few minutes later at the Glasshouses.

A few minutes later, and the sky has taken a sort of murky, misty quality, but the colours of the day are yet to fill it in.   Despite appearances, there is neither mist nor murk in the atmosphere, and within half an hour the sky will be an uninteresting bright blue!

Glasshouse Mountains.

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Glasshouses at Dawn

I was there at the right time, but the combination of sunrise, mist and a not very deft hand on the processing button, give this view a vaguely "Chinese Sunrise" sort of quality.

Glasshouse Mountains.

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Rust and Ruin

This photograph was taken in late May for several reasons.  The most important of those is that the wreck of the SS Dicky, which has featured here many times before and gave its name to the beach on which it rests, is being moved, and I wasn't sure that it would still be here for a current photograph.

My absence from the country at this time is also problematic, but not to worry.

I can't make up my mind whether moving a wreck, a few bits of rusted iron, to a park several hundred metres away is actually "preserving it" as the good intentioned folk who are responsible for the move believe, but that is what is happening.

A wreck is a wreck I would have thought, but the next photo I take of it will tell a different story.

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Dicky Beach.
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