Abandoned - a day early

Tomorrow is a theme day I'm quite excited about because I picked it.  So excited I have two photos, so I can let this one go a day early.

I like the cupboard door handle, I LOVE the colours in the kitchen and I am sad that all that asbestos cladding both in and outside mean that none of this will be preserved.

Military Jetty
Golden Beach

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Learn to dive while we have coffee.

View through a diving class room, with turtle and fish pictures on the walls.

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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HMAS Brisbane

When they sunk the Brisbane a kilometre or so offshore, they said it would become one of the world's great dive sites.  I have no idea whether it is or it isn't, but I'm told it's coral encrusted now and full of the sorts of fishy things that divers love to see.

Dive Shop
Mooloolaba

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Not abandoned. Just not loved.

It looks deserted, but somewhere down there, there is at least one real life  shop selling things to all who come.  It must be a hard way to make a living.

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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Bike Hire

Bike Hire.

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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What do you call those things?

Is it a lantern or a roof light?  Actually it's fake, there's a false ceiling way below with all the air conditioning bits running in it, but it's wearing rather nicely in my humble opinion.

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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Bridge with a river view

I wonder if those in the squillion dollar houses across the river get as much joy as I do out of the slowly decaying building opposite them?

Mooloolaba

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I'm sure I've posted this before.

Here it is again anyway, a fake hoist support with no opening below to actually hoist anything into, and stereo speakers for the fun of it.

Party crane?

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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Green not verdigris

I was so taken with the bare timber and it's remaining paint that looked so much like lichen clinging on for dear life, that I posted this photograph despite its complete absence of any point or merit.

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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A few days of patina

Plywood wet suit tub ageing beautifully.

Mooloolaba

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View reflected in a cafe window.

When I shot this image, there was a waiter inside setting the tables, he stopped and posed with a nice smile for the camera, completely unaware that the lens couldn't see him.

This shot is for you young man!

The Wharf
Mooloolaba

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Cathole - and a lesson in nautical terms.

The rope, like all but a few on a ship is not a rope, it is a hawser.   There very few actual "ropes" aboard any vessel.  There is a bell rope (to ring the bell), a bolt rope (attached to the edge of a sail for extra strength), a foot rope (on old square riggers for the sailors to stand on while reefing or furling the sails), and a tiller rope (to temporarily hold the tiller and keep the boat on course), but I can't think of any others.

The hole through which hawser protrudes is called variously a cat hole or a hawsehole (pronounced horse-hole and no they never had an ass aboard.)

Mooloolaba

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The wharf finally aging gracefully

After thirty years without maintenance, there are places on the wharf which have evolved beyond the point where a quick lick of paint will sort them out.   We are at the point where I think we can say genuine patina is beginning to make its presence obvious.

It's actually starting to look quite mellow now that it's gone beyond the "just needs a clean" stage.

Mooloolaba

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Back to the Wharf

I know I've published similar shots, but this time I was actually able to get onto the marina opposite, so here is a (slightly) different view of our white elephant.

Mooloolaba

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Well worn

A tattered flag is usually a sign of a boat well used.  Technically it should come down at sunset, but I suspect this one doesn't.   Ours takes about two summers to look like this, but I always replace it before the fraying gets to the star.

Mooloolaba

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Be a dobber

A "dobber" is someone who "dobs in" their mates.   I'm not sure that it's in our culture to report others doing illegal stuff if it's not harming us, but perhaps we should understand that anyone taking fish in protected areas is not just potentially harming us but our grandchildren as well.

I'd be curious to see how many people make a note of this number though.

Mooloolaba

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Another contribution to the whitening of the world.

I for one, think that Caribbean Resort looks a lot better without all those dark green and blue bits.  I have now a recurring theme about the whitening of the Coast, wondering if it's just another fad and whether the buildings in time will all be repainted in pastels and peaches or if the blanket of white will see a gentle consistency evolve throughout our urban landscape.

Mooloolaba

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Still there.

Eight years ago, I did explain that the apparent misspelling of "Peninsula" was quite possibly not and was probably used a legitimate context.   I don't think I'll have to correct myself when I say it needs a bit of love and care almost a decade later!

The curious can see my previous explanation here:

Mooloolaba

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Esplanade through the palms.

Not all of the Norfolk Pines are in the best of health, but I imagine that when the view opens up behind as a result of their demise not everyone is sad.

Mooloolaba

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Esplanade through the Norfolks

It was a monster planning mistake to promote a vast wall of buildings along the waterfront in Mooloolaba, but from this perspective the outcome could have been worse!

Mooloolaba

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The Club Car

I went to the club car but there wasn't even a fridge there, let alone someone serving drinks.

The confusions of an international traveller.

Isn't this a 'cart' technically?

Pelican Waters.

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Pergolas

I'm a lover of shadows and things that create them, but I wonder if these monster pergolas are taking things too far.   I shall return in bright sunlight to draw some conclusions.

Pelican Waters.

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Internationalism

It's a bit odd really, but there's a certain "international" style of architecture that follows golf courses around the world.   If it doesn't look like this, it doesn't sell because it's not "international".

Just another small step in the vanilla coating of the world.

Pelican Waters

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Not just any grave.

Well I wandered over to this headstone and saw the name "Greg Norman", wondered in the blink of an eye why he was buried here, before embarrassing myself by reading at the same time as remembering, that he had designed this course and it wasn't his tombstone after all.

Pelican Waters

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Cool by our standards!

Here I am, technically trespassing on the Pelican Waters Golf Club land, feeling all cold and wintery and quite miserable in the drizzle, when I come across the clubhouse and its illuminated thermometer reminding me that it's a wretched twenty-one degrees C.

Brrrr.

Pelican Waters

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What is cool?

It's weird, that little algorithm that determines "cool" in culture.  

Whatever it is, kombies and street rods have some sort of happy synergy in the cool stakes.   An underpowered efficient box from Germany competes on equal footing for street cred with an overpowered, uncomfortable relic from the US (that sounds very cool!).

Go figure, as they say.

Caloundra

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Deliverance

Err... Delivery!

A ute with a washing machine aboard.

Caloundra

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Workmanship

In days gone by, car guys used to show off their skills, no matter how amateurish they took pride in their ability to turn a hand to anything.

Now it seems that there is pride in making it look as though they know nothing.  The odd thing is that it is often harder to make it look bad than to make it look as though they had a really good try.

Pfft!  Fashion!  What would I know?

Caloundra

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What's wrong with this picture?

Returning to car culture for a day or two...

Yep... left hand drive.   I am amazed at the number of classic cars imported and not converted to Right Hand Drive.  I am not sure why I find this unsatisfactory, but I think it's a wholesale importation of another culture rather than seeking to define our own that gets to me.

It's not that there's anything wrong with collecting foreign cars, or importing them, but.... well it seems to be cheating or something if they are left unconverted!

Caloundra

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Library

The reading area in the Caloundra library has possibly the world's "noisiest" mural.  For those who don't know who Astro Boy is, he is a little humanoid robot who continually saves the world by punching well above his weight.  

He doesn't know he's small I think, and that's a bit like the Caloundra Library.   It may not have the biggest collection or the fanciest building, but it does have friendly capable librarians who can get anything from anywhere, and an enormous number of services that can be accessed online.

One can even learn a musical instrument online through it's programmes.   It's the way libraries should be I think!

And all of that from someone who isn't backwards in criticising where its due!

This is just one photograph from participants in the City Daily Photo theme day "Library".  To see more libraries around the world click this link.


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