A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Sunday 31 May 2015

Carpark Downtown Mooloolaba


If you want to shop at Mooloolaba, expect competition for the best car park.

Mooloolaba.

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Saturday 30 May 2015

The Esplanade at Mooloolaba.


Another in that occasional, but increasingly more frequent series of random photos of streets.

Behind me is the beach.

Mooloolaba.

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Friday 29 May 2015

View through the carpark


Some buildings have a sort of translucency that does add an accidental something to the street.

Kawana

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Thursday 28 May 2015

Sunshine Coast Skyline


There are those who would protest against high rise buildings in order to keep our skies clear and uncluttered.

Give me that sort of clutter any day as an alternative to this!

Kawana

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Wednesday 27 May 2015

Nicklin Way


If I had to have an educated guess, I would guess that this is the busiest thoroughfare on the entire Coast.    I guess those two chain-saw attacked Queen Palms are Council's way of explaining why we shouldn't plant them.

Leading by example so to speak.  They aren't "self-cleaning" you see, so to keep them tidy, they chainsaw the old fronds off, and leave a little bunch of whatever is still green.

All they need is some cross trees and a transformer or light fitting and they'd fit right in.

Currimundi.

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Tuesday 26 May 2015

Ramp or stairs


The old beach house awaits its inevitable fate.  It may not be this decade or the next, but redevelopment will happen.

Depending on when it does, its newer neighbour may well find itself at the end of its economic life as well.  Such are the perils of building in salt air with a limited budget.

Alexander Headland.

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Monday 25 May 2015

The Blues


Two Kombis and a block of flats in Blue.

Alexandra Headland

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Sunday 24 May 2015

Messy


A view north to Maroochydore on a day when the swell was rising, but so was the wind.

Not much in the way of waves to catch, nor blue sky to catch them under.

Alexander Headland.
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Saturday 23 May 2015

The Lunch Room


One of the pleasures of working in a town like this, is that in the right you can go for a quick surf or simply hang your toes over the revetment wall by the ocean while you have your lunch.

Alexandra Headland

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Friday 22 May 2015

Another random street.


The Esplanade at Alexandra Headland is called the Esplanade because it runs along the shore front.  Had I taken this photo from the other side of the road, you would have seen ocean, not buildings, just as you do from all of those balconies.


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Thursday 21 May 2015

More of the yellow building.


We are definitely in resort territory here, quite near the top of the hill overlooking the ocean.

Alexandra Headland.

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Wednesday 20 May 2015

Yellow building with green glass.


I haven't left much out of the title, so consider the photo described!

Alexandra Headland.

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Tuesday 19 May 2015

A collection of Palms.


Two of the three palms in this view are not found in Florida.   The bushy one in the centre is a native to a tiny piece of Queensland near Cape Melville in the far north, it's a Woodyetia or "foxtail" palm and is one of millions sold around the world originally propagated from seed stolen from the the National Park established to protect it.  

The other skinny one is an Alexander or Bangalow palm, not sure which, of the Archontophoenix family.

Alexandra Headlands.

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Monday 18 May 2015

Danger Zone


Coconut Palms are not particularly prevalent this far south, and its not something we are unhappy about particularly.

Those nuts can really do some damage if they happen to find something other than the ground to break their fall.

Alexandra Headland

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Sunday 17 May 2015

Foreigners


That curious little plant with the largish leaves in the bottom centre, is an Australian native - Macaranga tanarius, a coastal rainforest tree that is a new-growth plant.  It's job is to grow from a clearing and quickly shade the forest floor so that slow growing plants can come up beneath it.

I don't think there's much chance of it consuming those American desert dwellers though.   They are indicative of that whole era of the sixties when California was everything we needed to aspire to!

Alexandra Headlands

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Saturday 16 May 2015

It's Patina!


I was overjoyed to find that right here on the brand sparkling new Sunshine Coast, we had our own little version of a faded painted billboard.   No longer do I have to travel to France to get my fix of patina - it has begun!

Shemara Court
Alexandra Headland.

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Friday 15 May 2015

The Main Drag


I was curious as to why we came to call the main street a "drag" and whether the origins were at all related to "drag" racing.  

The internet tells me it was an American (U.S.) expression first coined in the 1920's and that yes, drag racing referred to racing up the main street.

I guess that makes it a fairly rare piece of Australian slang, where most of the origins came from the other side of the Atlantic.

Here is the main drag in Woombye.  We can tell that's where we are because that's the Woombye butchery, and the Woombye Bakery on each corner, and I think we need to celebrate the fact that this town has both of those businesses still operating prominently.  Long may they live!

Woombye.

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Thursday 14 May 2015

Queensland Rail


Yes, yes, I know that improvements are constantly happening and the new lines are going in as we speak, but seriously, here we have a major commuting line that is limited to a top speed in perfect conditions with the wind behind it, of sixty kilometres per hour.

Yes folks, there is so much congestion on our rail link to the City, that Queensland Rail runs buses to relieve it!

This photo was not taken at a time of congestion.

Woombye Station.

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Wednesday 13 May 2015

To Nambour


I know I have been disparaging about Nambour at times in years gone by, but here's one of the good things about that centre: the train to Woombye!

Woombye Station

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Tuesday 12 May 2015

Mechanical Repairs


The mechanical repairs shop has a sculpture cleverly assembled out of old truck fenders.   Not quite so cleverly, the photographer chose to show them in a light that didn't clearly portray the dolphins that their forms now allude to.   I like it this way better - sorry Mr Dolphin sculptor - perhaps on my next visit....

Woombye

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Monday 11 May 2015

Scouts.


I am old enough to remember when the "Scouts" were called "Boy Scouts".  Their hall in Woombye is old enough to remember too, and while it's probably had the same shade of green its whole life, the colourful murals on it's walls are certainly something from this century.

Woombye

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Sunday 10 May 2015

Memoria Park


Perhaps it's surprising that the Memorial Park doesn't have the word "Woombye" in its name, but there's no real reason to forget where you are when the station is just a stone's throw away.

Woombye

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Saturday 9 May 2015

Rural Supplies



The hardware shop in Woombye has just about the biggest collection of community notices I've ever seen.  Actually I am fairly sure it is the biggest collection by far.

Woombye

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Friday 8 May 2015

Footpath


I'm sure there is a Council by-law prohibiting placing of merchandising on the footpath, but I'm equally sure that it adds an element of something nice to the Woombye experience.

The florist shop awning reminds us exactly where we are if we have forgotten, (as do many other businesses).

Woombye

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Thursday 7 May 2015

Post Office



Woomby Post Office is not one of the classiest buildings, but it's honest and it sits in the hub of town. I may be mistaken but I have the distinct impression that there is a renovation on the way across the street to rehouse it.    We shall revisit in a few months perhaps to determine its fate.

Woombye


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Wednesday 6 May 2015

Woombye - a clean little village


Woombye is such a tidy, pretty town that I thought I'd begin this series with a photograph of the Laundromat, a tidily renovated shop, probably originally a butcher's I am guessing, and one of the trademarks of Woombye's pride in itself, is that every business seems to want to identify itself with the town.

If you are looking for a place filled with clever puns in their business names, this is not it.

Woombye.

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Tuesday 5 May 2015

Pandanus 4 of 4


Mostly I love their monster pineapple shaped fruit, the way it ripens to a golden orange and weighs so much that it represents a genuine health (or life!) threat to anyone basking unwarily in the shade of the tree.

Kings Beach

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Monday 4 May 2015

Pandanus 3 of 4


It's the theatre of the things I really like, the way they throw their trunks and branches around, trying to create drama where there is none.    And they know about the interplay of light and shade too.

Kings Beach

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Sunday 3 May 2015

Pandanus 2 of 4


Even when the canopy is relatively sparse, there is some shade, and the pattern of your sunburn will be quite distinctive.

Kings Beach

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Saturday 2 May 2015

Pandanus 1 of 4


I've tried before to photograph the canopy of the pandanus with limited success.   It's amazing how dark it can be in the shadows beneath a healthy grove of the things.

Imagine you are lying on a beach towel looking up.

Kings Beach

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Friday 1 May 2015

Revolution


When I was a kid, surfboards were quite heavy planks of things that used to go pretty much in straight lines, that was before the revolution that saw them becoming smaller and lighter with more fins and surfers arrived with ridiculous levels of skill.

Now we are seeing aerial three hundred and sixy degree turns, and flips and well.... complete revolutions really.  Boards like this one that in the hands of the right skipper can do a u-turn inside it's own length.   

For more interpretations of today's theme "Revolution" please visit the City Daily Photo Theme Day Gallery.

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