Night Beach - From May 2017

It's new year's eve, and tonight this little patch of beach and parkland adjoining it will be filled with people, ready to see the new year in.    Will we be joining them?  I suspect not, but stranger things have happened.

Yes it is inviting, but please don't swim here after dark.   The sharks might find you appetising, and if you were to get into trouble, no one else could find you at all.

Mooloolaba


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Wet - From April 2017

April's theme was "wet" and while we had a whole summer where the sort of wet one gets from rain was in very short supply, the pool at Kings Beach was always there to keep anyone that wanted to be wet in a suitable state of just that.

Of course, right now we have an over abundance of the wet stuff, but hopefully the storm will pass and everyone will get back to the pool in a very quick time.

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Kings Beach

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Glasshouse Mountains from March 2017

When all else fails, switch to black and white and tell Ansel you liked his work.

Maleny

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Another view from the Loo - from February 2017

On the lower boardwalk late in the afternoon.   I'd better stop the Loo with a View series right now, before the bad puns and rhymes get out of hand.

Mooloolaba

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Bushfire in the hinterland - from February 2017

Actually it's not the same shot as last Tuesday's, but it was taken at the same time from the same place, or nearby at least.    I liked the odd lighting enough to risk posting a second shot.

Kings Beach

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On Tippy Toe - from January 2017

I guess he's trying to sneak up on us.

Caloundra

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A timeless greeting - from December 25, 2016!

Well the "retrospective" is almost over - we'll soon be returning from our lengthy break and back into the swing of posting in more or less current time.   So in a move that's a bit akin to pasting a bit of paper over the greeting in last year's card and recycling it, please take the following as our heart-felt wishes for the coming year!

Santa, presents, reindeer, snowflakes and a couple of Christmas trees (sans decoration), in a summer wonderland.  It's a bit difficult to find any symbol relating to the actual reason for the celebration, well there is star in the East when viewed from a certain direction, but it's all OK.  

This is Australia, where regardless of one's personal belief, it's still called Christmas, a time for Peace on Earth and good will among men (at Christmas it's OK to refer to the human race as "men" too).    

Here's wishing one and all a very Merry Christmas from the Sunshine Coast, where the chance of snow is about the same as the chance was of a reindeer landing on my roof last night!

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Chillin' - From December 2016

We're currently doing exactly this- one of the great mysteries of life is why we have to travel 400 km to find a beach when we have a perfectly good one at home, nor why we need to live in a tent when we have a perfectly good house there, but we are.   We may or may not be posting updates on one of our other blogs depending on the vagaries of internet and energy levels, who knows!

There's probably no one at the beach right now, because they are all hanging in their hammocks, lying in the shade, relaxing perhaps after a touch of over-indulgence at the dinner table yesterday.   Yes, it's one of those oddities of life, that despite temperatures hanging in the early thirties, we still mostly cling to that old British tradition of taking part in a monster baked lunch on Christmas Day.

Why do we do that?

Probably so we can do nothing on boxing day and feel quite good about it.   "Where are the people" you ask, "Surely if things were as crowded as you suggest, there'd be people in this shot - you didn't take it earlier did you?"

Umm.. you've got me there.   I did perhaps prepare this one a day or two ago, but I can say with confidence that the scene probably looks like this today, because, well, they'd all be at the Sales wouldn't they?

Cotton Tree
Maroochydore

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From November 2016

Sunset at Moffat Beach, looking north.

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Felicity Park -from December 2016

A week or so ago I promised I'd be back to see what the lights looked like after dark.

They look like this, and Council's Christmas Tree is quite splendid as well, albeit a little off the beaten path at this time of the evening.

Caloundra

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A few hundred metres from home - from November 2016

I love living here.

I really do.

This is one of the world's great miracles and one that I can never fathom:  actual photographic evidence that the sun sets in the east!

Moffat Beach

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WINTER SALE! from October 2016

A sale of winter stock here means getting rid of the pink thongs and the orange tee shirts that keep us  so warm in the dead of winter.

Mooloolaba

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Our Library - From September 2016

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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Board-wade from August 2016

Well it can't be called a boar walk when it's underwater can it?

There'll be rain tonight and the creek will break out into the ocean on the high tide and normal transmission will resume.

Tooway Creek

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As you read this - from July 2016

As you read this, we should be camped at a beach some distance from where we live, perhaps I shall mention it elsewhere.  We won't be quite so stylish though.

Did the colour of the car really match the surfboard and that of the caravan in days gone by?

I'm not sure, but it makes for a happy holiday methinks.

Caloundra

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Stoney Grey - from June 2016

More grey skies I'm afraid, but I was tired of all that blue.

Moffat Beach

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Out vile grass! - from May 2016

It turns out I was completely wrong about the kind of grass this was... those seeds were just about the most virulent... aaargh... I've been digging the stuff out for eighteen months and it still keeps bobbing up!

OK, I'm not rolling in it and if I did it has the look of something itchy, but here's the flower stem of one of our native grasses, this one is a lomandra, I think of the variety longifolia, but then all the folia in grass is longi, that's what makes it grass!

Dicky Beach

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Simplicity - From April 2016

It's hard to describe the feeling of solitude.

All it takes is a board, a wave and an ocean.

This is my take on today's theme "the beauty of simplicity".  To see many others, don't forget to visit http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au

Moffat Beach

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Umbrella Trees - from March 2016

Another photograph of the umbrella tree canopy, perhaps giving just a hint as to where its name was derived.

Caloundra

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Things haven't changed - from February 2016

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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Hanging in there - from January 2016

If only the rain would actually come instead of hanging up there looking picturesque.

Looking north toward Dicky Beach.

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The problem with being at the beach at sunset - from December 2016

The problem with being at the beach at sunset is that the photographs are just too pretty to discard.

Sigh.   Be prepared for a day or two of photographs with a lovely pink hue!

Bulcock Beach

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Star of Wonder - from December 2015

Having a cup of tea in our friend Pam's garden the other day we were reminded of this post.

If the wise men of old, the Magi, had followed this particular star they would have ended up sitting on Dicky Beach on that first Christmas, no doubt wondering where things went wrong, and how they had accidentally ended up in heaven.

Had that had actually occurred, no doubt a council officer would be on the spot in no time flat, issuing them a ticket for having unlicensed camels on the beach, just before some over enthusiastic immigration officer carted them off to a detention centre for illegal immigrants, and I can only begin to wonder  if that had happened what  Christmas Card motifs might have been.

Whatever your personal beliefs may be, I hope you you get a chance to reflect on the true message of the season and have a very Merry Christmas!

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Christmas Cheer - From November 2015

Yes it's become something of a hobby-horse of mine, and I suppose if a government can't make plans to provide sufficient infrastructure for growth, how can we expect it to understand that the Christmas needs to be thought about every year!

And so it begins.

Don't get me wrong, I am grateful that the Sunshine Coast Council actually acknowledges the coming "holiday" season by its proper name, but once again in a city, no, a REGION which relies on tourism for its principal income, surely this effort at street decoration could be described as paltry!

To be fair, there is a matching sign on the other side of the street, (which has a more generic wish, no doubt to appease those who would wince at the use of the word "Christmas" while happily buying their cards with snow-scenes on them....) .  Seriously, do two little flags in the main street of a major suburb send an adequate message that we are grateful for your tourism dollar and will do what we can to make your stay a joyous and festive one?

Thank goodness for the good will of the traders in town.

Merry Shopping under Christmas skies!
Woombye



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Lorikeet interrupting my morning coffee - from October 2015

October 2015 brought a change in format to the blog, which those who only view on Facebook or who have never clicked on the "home" button will not have seen, and it also brought this photo, one of my favourites from our own house.

For some it is hard to believe, but unlike kangaroos, parrots do visit many backyards in Australia.   (To be fair, kangaroos do too, but perhaps not quite so many in the urban areas!)

The only problem with having a flowering tree near our front verandah is that we are tempted to waste a bit more time than perhaps we should just watching.   Usually by the time I think to get my camera, the light has gone, or the parrots have.

Dicky Beach

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Serenity - From September 2015

Since this photo was taken, the pole has been replaced with a new, green treated timber one, but still;

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

Dicky Beach

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The Photographer - From August 2015

Surf photographer waiting for the semi-final heat to begin.

Moffat Beach

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Sunday Driver - from July 2015

Surfer watching the view go by, Mooloolaba in the background.

Moffat Beach

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Complete with wonky horizon! (Real time!)

iPhone panorama while lying on the beach - there's a limit to how steady one can hold it!

On a more serious note for my friends experiencing their first snowfall of winter, we are a little envious but this is a small consoloation;  25°, summer is on the way.

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Malibu - from June 2015

We are a long way from Malibu, but not far at all.... I remain fascinated by our need to be somewhere else or someone else!

Maroochydore.

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The gift that keeps on giving - from December 2010

I can't imagine that Seligs Jewellers would have thought they'd be getting mileage out of their little parking promotion seven years later, but I'm pleased to help out!

Today's City Daily Photo theme day is "gift" and I'm glad I remembered this post!

See more "Gifts" at this link.


Today I walked the length of Caloundra's main street looking for a sign or even the merest hint of any forthcoming festivity.   Apart from the odd shop interior, the place was entirely bereft of decoration or anything that hinted at just a little more cheeriness than usual for that matter.   I was hoping for a shot of someone in a fur trimmed hat so I could make the obvious bitingly witty commentary, but no one obliged.

Just as all hope was lost, I saw a present sitting on a post.   On investigation the post usually held up a parking meter, and the present in fact completely enveloped it.

Good on you Seligs Jewellers.  Sure there's a bit of commercial intent behind all this, but in a desert of Christmas Spirit it sticks out a mile!

Caloundra


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The lunch room - from May 2015

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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Clear as day - April 2015

This photo pretty much sums up where I think I am in terms of moving this blog forward!

I hope the person who designed the sign and road system for the Maroochy Botanic Gardens got a pay rise.

I'm still trying to work out how to leave.

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Moffs on the Rocks - March 2015

 The Rocks and Moffat Beach - just made for fossicking on - carefully!

Moffat Beach

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Another sunset - February 2015

It's hard to believe that this building is in the middle of a built-up area, but it is.  The grassy "dune" is a pile of debris on a construction site, the building is predominantly white, but if one catches it at the right time of the evening, anything can happen.

Let's call it "art" and be done with it.

Kings Beach

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Sunset over Tooway - January 2015

A lot has changed since 2014.  That clump of trees is gone, succumbing to erosion, and at this point not fully recovered from jet lag,  I haven't been near the beach at sunset!   It will happen!


Actually it was taken at sunset yesterday, and the real reason I have chosen it is not because it has any particular merit, but that it says much to me about why I live where I live.

It is taken from the bridge over Tooway Creek, a few hundred metres from home, and when I am not gallivanting around the globe I can often be found not far from here, particularly in the early morning or late afternoon.  

I hope that all who are reading this have a "prosperous" (in every sense) new year, and I look forward to being able to find more photos just like this one as the year rolls on!



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Holidays - December 2014

With the summer holidays beginning yesterday for many, and the first cricket test of summer underway, this seemed like an appropriate post to resurrect!

What will it be, the holiday home or the caravan?  

In our house, without those choices to make and the rain set in for the day, a warm couch with the television beaming the Cricket is be a fine alternative.  We are happy to leave the beach to those who are only able to enjoy it for a few weeks a year!

Moffat Beach

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Where's Willys? - November 2014

Life can't be easy when you are the only one that isn't a Kombi.

Caloundra

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Beachscape October 2014

I never cease to be amazed at how the same scene can vary so much, from deep shadows and rich blue skies, to subtle pastels with the hint of humidity.

I never ceased to be amazed at how beautiful it is and how privileged I am to be in a position to record just a small piece of it.

Coolum

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One of those days - October 2014

Have you ever had one of those days when even though you had a whole list of things to do, you couldn't get motivated?

That was today.  I tried sitting on the beach till the feeling passed, but it never did.

Mooloolaba

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Dimples - September 2014

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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Mixed messges, or why I don't read newspapers - August 2014

Colloquially, newsagents are referred to as "paper shops", because they sell newspapers.

 I wander past very early in the morning.  I pass the mat proclaiming "Welcome" and the message that implores me to "Win Big, right above the poster that reads "Woman Crushed by Car, Man Drowns", and wait for the nice lady to tell me to have a nice day.

Do I really want to take this sort of news away?

Dicky Beach

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Brrr....Winter on the coast. July 20145

Clear blue skies, sparkling water, gentle breezes, and southerners who think it's warm enough to swim.

Is there any wonder I move to the northern hemisphere in search of summer at this time of year!

Tooway Creek

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The retrospective continues! - June 2014

I really should go off in search of more sunrises, but sunrise currently is at 4:40 am and it's a fair old journey to get to the top of the hill....

 If you blinked you would have missed it yesterday, but there it is again, Mount Coolum looking suspiciously like Uluru in profile, but the ocean says we aren't in the centre!

from Mooloola

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from May 2014

There is no time limit on that piece of dappled shade on the grass.  We can sit watching and listening to the waves for as long as we want, or until we get hungry!

Moffat Headland

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The bathroom wall - April 2014

Perhaps we are making progress in the seemingly never ending quest for the bathroom wallpaper.

Another of my favourite things; the way the little waves at the edge of a giant ocean seem to chase their own shadows.

Moffat Beach

Flower- March 2014

I don't know what's come over me... I just felt the urge to take a photograph of a flower.   I used to do that all the time.  Might do it again soon!

Landsborough


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Where to now? -February 2014

While I'm still pondering that question as far as the blog goes, the retrospective continues!

Clear signs that an Ibis has been quite lost.

Moffat Beach


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Claire and Michael - January 2014

In a barbed wire canoe....

An old European tradition seems to be gaining a foothold here, no doubt (with the greatest of respect to Clare and Michael whose lock tells me they were celebrating their first anniversary), spurred on by commercial interests from interested parties such as the people making these heart shaped locks.

Originally the tradition had the lock clasped to a bridge stanchion on the wedding day of those concerned, and the key thrown into the water so that the bond could never be broken.

I am not sure what the symbolism in the barbed wire is.... hopefully it's not a reflection of that first year.

Glasshouse Mountains


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Sunrise over Tooway - December 2013

Sadly the grand-puppy is no more, so early mornings on the beach are without his exuberance, but we  are glad that we had the opportunity to share them with him

It's just after sunrise, well before five a.m. and the small fluffy grand-puppy and I have the beach to ourselves!

I suspect that I can be forgiven for not being here often at this time, but when I do make the effort I often can't believe the sheer beauty of the light!

And all those sleeping wives, daughters and grand-children missed it!

Tooway Creek


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