Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Monday 29 February 2016

Mooloolaba

I'm not sure if the fretwork is representative of plant or fish, or perhaps both. It is very palmy, but very butterfly cod-ey as well.

Whatever it is, it feels right for it's location, at one of the nicest spots there is for a picnic.

Mooloolaba

Picket Fence

I don't think anyone can argue that as far as picket fences go, this one is a beauty.

There are mixed reactions about its location though. It very tidily prevents diners at the coffee shop from straying onto the road, but at the same time it is a little disruptive to pedestrians! No more, it must be said, than the not so beautiful plastic blinds that surround it's neighbours, and I know which of the two I'd rather see.

The Pocket,

Moffat Beach.
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Almost missed a day!

I've been burning the candle from both ends and the middle as well of late, and by the time I had enough of a break to find a photo, there wasn't all that much natural light left.

Here's a pandanus tree in Eleanor Shipley Park, Moffat Beach, with just a hint of sea mist in the air.

Moffat Beach

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Arcade

Arcades in theory are exciting things, meant to draw customers to the mystery that is the other end.

Then there are the kind that aren't.

Caloundra

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Chainsaw Carving

It is truly entertaining in a "I wonder if he'll cut off his arm" sort of way, but truly, what do you do with it when he's finished?

Garden fish in Camphor.

Edmundi

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Toadstool

If they aren't mushrooms they must be toadstools. How did that come to be?

A view of my garden a few days after a lot of rain.

Dicky Beach

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America

You can buy a barely used "America" album for about the price of a complete stereo system when it was recorded.

Caloundra

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You didn't have to dress up...

The last customers ever in Comino's Drapery sift through empty shelves, chatting on worn floors, best thongs on to celebrate the occasion.

Comino's Drapery
Caloundra

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Seventy years of errant punctuation!

Sadly Comino's Drapery closed last week after seventy year of service to the public. It was there before the footpaths outside were paved, in a time when they were simply sand paths.

There has been much written in the local press, celebrating the natural conclusion to a much loved family business, but not one article questioned the punctuation of the sign above the door.

Sure in 1946 people were generally fastidious with their full stops and 'apostrophes. Not so apparently.

Comino's Drapery was the major tenant in Comino's Building for all those years yet the answer to the question "C. E Comino's (WHAT?) & Co shall remain a secret for ever.

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Please Explain

There is so much going on in this photograph that a full explanation is difficult. For instance, what do all those arrows mean?

On the other hand the blue sign, admittedly a little faded, declares Caloundra to be Australia's tidiest town in 2013, no doubt left a little untidier by residual banners declaring it to be so. This begs a question though: How could this be?

Caloundra ceased to be a town when the Sunshine Coast Council was formed in 2008! Some of us are clearly having problems integrating!

Caloundra

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Ugh

It's always great to see new products used, but sometimes maintenance becomes problematic.

How for instance, does one clean in the little tubular hollows of the twin skinned polycarbonate. It's a rather nifty effect though.

Caloundra

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Girls day out.

The family that plays together...

Has fun!

Caloundra.

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Art, Life. Life, Art.

I wonder why the graphic on the side of what is very clearly a garbage truck, needs to be a view of a bin being emptied, when one can see the real thing only a few metres away?

Caloundra

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The weather is a bit "iffy".

One could be forgiven for thinking I only visit Bulcock Beach in the rain.

Perhaps I do.

Caloundra

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Forget me not.

Gazanias from South Africa, and despite having miles of the little blue guys in my own yard I can't for the life of me think of the name!

Public planting

Caloundra.

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Changing Rooms

The advent of laser cutting has opened up all sorts of opportunities for architectural expression.

I must confess I have an overwhelming urge to colour this in!

Bulcock Beach

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The Barista and the Bean

Mmmmm.. coffee time at the beach, and we are so glad a caravan just happens to be there for us!

Caloundra

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Happy Valley

Makes you wonder what Unhappy Valley would be like, doesn't it?

Happy Valley
Bulcock Beach

Caloundra

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Humidity.

We had friends from the Phillipines with us for a few days. The humidity and temperature wasn't a bother for them, but it would have been nice to have had more than a few metres of visibility when we drove up into the hinterland.

Montville

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The point of it all.

I've published plenty of photographs of verandahs over the years, but it occurred to me that I hadn't taken one from the inside.

So here it is: cool and shady on a rainy day where the temperature barely made it past the mid thirties. (Celsius).

Montville

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Handrail in the rain

I'm not sure that I can describe the pleasure that is to be had on a rainy day, simply watching the rain splashing off the verandah handrail.

Montville.

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Texting home.

Port in the storm

If the Kebab shop is dry, we'll stop there for a bit.

Mooloolaba

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Tornado!

Note the bowing of the shop blinds, the general blur of the leaves in the foreground, and the strange blurring of the "New Tornado" sign.

This is the moment the storm made it's presence felt. In 1/80 of a second (which coincidentally was the time it took to take this photo) that sign is going to narrowly miss me. The leaves are going to disappear, and an inch or so of water will fall in minutes!

Mooloolaba

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Out of focus evening scene, reflected in a rubbish bin.

The caption tells the story. A small note on how desperate daily photo bloggers can get sometimes.

Mooloolaba.

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Esplanade; evening

The evening grey will soon give way to a cloudburst, but we weren't to know that. Actually we'd have to be stupid not to know that, but I'm trying to find an excuse for walking in the face of an oncoming storm.

How does "Well the temperature was thirty-nine degrees and it was more than a little muggy" sound?

Mooloolaba

Hot Day, Evening Storms, No Customers

The Mooloolaba Esplanade was a wet and lonely place last night.

Mooloolaba

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Dog's eye.

The "dog's eye", rhyming slang for meat pie is as much a part of traditional Australian culture as the kangaroo. In the not so distant past they were by far the largest selling food item in the country. They are often drowned in "dead horse" (tomato sauce) although strangely it's called ketchup just about anywhere else in the world, but this one is covered in "mash" - mashed potato.

Pie culture cannot be better described than in this advertisement from a year or ten ago:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2TF2aU6BU

For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the accent we use when at home when speaking to one another, the conversation in the clip goes as follows:-

"Do you reckon they know what they are missing out on?"

"They wouldn't have a clue by the look of them."

Moffat Beach

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View from a Coffee House

Back in Lamkin Lane at the Espresso Bar, the contents of that frosty bottle are the perfect pick-me-up on a hot day. Cold-pressed coffee lovingly dripped as nature intended, using only gravity and entirely without heat, through a series of glass contraptions no doubt stolen from one of Jule's Verne's daydreams before being mixed with fresh full-cream milk (from actual cows) then sealed with a proper bottle cap and lovingly refrigerated.

Sipped straight from the bottle, if you are in the northern hemisphere and nestled under your snow blanket, it's probably hard to imagine right now, but take my word from it, it's PERFECT on a summer's afternoon!

Lamkin Lane Espresso Bar
Caloundra

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