Celebration.

There's nothing like sitting down after a parachute jump (apparently) and enjoying a long lunch among friends.

Coolum Surf Club
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Elation

Given the vast quantity of adrenalin pumping through Rob's body, one would have to say that this was the gift that will go on giving for a very long time!

Coolum.
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Touch Down

Right on target and as gentle as can be, the chute and its crew arrive safely and quietly.  Well quietly except for the odd whoop on the way down.

Coolum
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Twirly bits.

There's no need to come straight down, you can just muck around for a bit on the way.

Coolum

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All arms and legs

No, it's not a four legged, two headed man.  It's an experienced sky dive instructor with his passenger on a tandem jump.  In this case the passenger was given the jump as a "surprise" birthday present.

I am not sure how one surprises another with a jump from an aeroplane, but it seemed to work.

Coolum

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Coolum - late morning, looking up.

No, he isn't sunbathing, nor is he unwell.  He's been talking to the pilot on the sky-dive plane, and is sighting the divers as they leave the plane at some greater height than I deem sensible to be leaving a plane.

Coolum

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Coolum, late morning.

It's spring,  and not a bad day at all to be standing on the beach doing not much.

Coolum

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As the sun slowly sinks... in the East!

There's not much to see here now, except the faintest glow of vaguely apricot colour in the sky that mysteriously tells us that day is done.   Mysteriously, because this is the east, and unless things have changed since we've been away, this is not where the sun is supposed to set.

Moffat Beach

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Kookaburra

The kookaburra or laughing jackass has that magical laugh that is readily identifiable as a uniquely Australian sound.   This little fellow has half a dozen friends who seem to delight in waking us at four thirty in the morning.

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Serenity

There's nothing more serene than looking out at a power pole at dawn.

Dicky Beach

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Eucalyptus

The flowers of the eucalypts are stunning things when they are close enough to be inspected at close range.  Is there any wonder we have so many parrots!


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Tibouchina

The Tibouchina "Alstonville" is ubiquitous in the suburbs and with it's "Alstonville" moniker I simply presumed that it was native to northern New South Wales.

Unless New South Wales is a state of Mexico, it appears I am wrong, but they do tend to leave us seeing purple in Autumn and Spring.

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More colours

It's strange to think that one day all this beauty will be covered no doubt with white plaster to produce a "Macmansion" that will conform entirely with its neighbours.

I thought I'd post a second similar shot to string out the joy just a little.

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The colour of construction

I used to build once.  In those days timber was timber coloured and the ground was poisoned with stuff that chased termites away and kept them away.   Sadly one day someone drew a link between those poisons and people falling down dead and a new set of materials had to be devised.

Now the timber is treated against attack with more innocuous chemicals, and dyed so there can be no mistake about what has been dunked in which.

It makes for a colourful life on a construction site though.
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Lock.

Some readers know that we spend summer in Europe travelling by small boat on the inland waterways.   This involved negotiating hundreds of locks in any given season, many of them tens of metres deep.

At Pelican Waters, there is a lock and I often go to marvel at it when I feel homesick for my northern life.   The height of the water does vary with the tide, but it's never going to be a challenge for most boaters.

Pelican Waters

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Lighthouse inverted.

Right time, right place, puddle just big enough to reflect a nice amount of the light from the lead.

Golden Beach

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The lead light.

This is one of a pair of lights that work in unison so that ships can align their passage with the narrow channel close to the shore.

It's part of the system that rendered the old lighthouses in Caloundra redundant.

Golden Beach

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Esplanade frontage.

The apartments aren't at all glamorous, and there's a road between the grass and the building, but it's not a terrible place to stay by any means!

Golden Beach

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Shelter

I wonder if this tree will grow into something that gives shade, or if it will remain a scrappy, stunted shrub struggling to find its way in the world.  Perhaps I should return to this spot each year to find out.

Golden Beach
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Fishing at dusk

Hoping to catch a flathead perhaps?

Golden Beach

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Boom!

I am unsure what to say about this - it looks like a sonic boom, but I think it was just bit of a messy turn!

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Twirly twisty things

Just when you thought you'd seen all the ways technology can be misused, someone invents a way to cut shiny stainless steel into a zillion concentric pieces and mounts them in a way that means that those pieces rotate in an entirely inter connected way.

If you surround them with red yellow and blue curtains, you end up with an ever changing pattern which is sure to please the punters, who will take them home hang them in their beige living room, and wonder why they have stopped working.

Christmas present for the girl who has everything.

Eumundi.

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The next big thing.

Velour boardshorts in your choice of colours.

Just when I thought my my chenille ones were coming back into fashion too.

Eumundi

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Pines

We have an obsession with shortening names in this country.

So when one sees a sign that says "Sweet Pines", one does not think of toilet aerosol, but rather one knows that there are pineapples for sale around the next corner.   These were actually at the Eumundi markets, at the Pine stall and I liked the shadow on the canvas back wall.

Sweet!

Eumundi.


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Signs of the times

I really can't decide if the new signs throughout the town are a cheery adjunct or a shame at best.  I think I am tending towards the latter, as old shops seem to be in competition as though there is a prize for the largest most vibrant billboard, and the town slowly turns itself into just another strip mall.

Maleny

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Layers

Once in the village centre in Maleny the Auto Spares Store sat cheek by jowl with the Cafe.  That was in the days before food was "fine" of course, when "Gelati" was sold as "Have-a-hearts" and cheese came in in one variety.

As renewal of the town continues, the loss of these little hints at a past continues.

Maleny

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Shelter

Maleny's modern shelter structures are lovely things,  open and light and visually satisfying.  If it rains, we suggest you sit somewhere else though.

Maleny
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Banksia House

The name "Banksia House" evokes all sorts of images of the essence of Australia.  

I suspect the garden plant selection is a deliberate irony.

Maleny

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Persona non grata

When I was in Maleny a few months ago, I was clearly a bit grumpy, but even the shop mannequins seem to have taken it personally.

Perhaps one of their kind has been taken to the tip!

Maleny

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Curiosities

The Golden Fleece is variously a remnant from Greek mythology, a reference to an ancient gold mining technique, or an Australian Oil Company which was purchased by a multinational brand around thirty years ago and therefore passed into mythology as well.

This petrol station standard in Maleny is preserved for posterity at Watson's Garage (established 1964), and could be the only one still standing in its original environment.

While it has featured on this blog once before, that was five years ago and well, one would have to do a search!

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