Incoming!

Another plane load of tourists on final landing approach, bringing with them all the resources that keep the accomodation houses, supermarkets and all of us really in the manner to which we would like to become accustomed.   None of us like the holiday crowds of course, but we all benefit from the business they bring and the infrastructure that they pay for.

Maroochydore

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Double Standards

Sure, we all need electricity and the services have to go somewhere, but this photograph doesn't even show a quarter of the installation on a busy Maroochydore Road.

I can't help but feel sorry for the developers of the brand new showroom next door, as I imagine them negotiating with the planners over the exact shade of blue to match the neighbouring structure.

Wouldn't it be good if Goverments actually had to abide by the planning regulations they impose on everyone else?

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Credit Where Credit's Due

Some may remember back in August, I published a series of bike path photographs, and may have inadvertently implied that some places were less than satisfactory from a cyclists perspective.  One of those photos is shown below, and the new look path above in the main picture.  While neither of the photos in today's post could be described as art, but the  new superwide path and retaining wall could be!

My goodness, they've even chopped out the  bushes on the corner so we can actually ride around it now.

I can't take any of the credit other than that for waiting till the sky matched the colour of the new concrete, but I can thank whichever Council Officer was responsible for the upgrade, and wish them all the best with their continued efforts!

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Safe Cycling

After four months in some of the world's most cycle-friendly countries, it's come as a shock to be back home where bicycle safety means a pole with a sign on it!

As the wagons circle, one wonders just what one is supposed to do with one's bike.  Stand by the post to lessen the impact perhaps?  Or is this the stake where cyclists, once captured are tied as punishment for their transgressions?

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One of my favourite views

Maroochydore, from the rocks at Mooloolaba.

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The Glasshouses6 of 6 - What Tibrogargan Sees

There's no doubt that even through the winter haze, the mountains don't have a bad view of the coast. The jumble of civilisation on the horizon is the urban centre of Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Alexandra Headland. From this viewpoint it all looks a little.... unnatural, I suppose it is.

This photo once again puts the residential density of our city into a rather more focussed perspective than the photograph. We really do have a lot of open space around us.

Mooloolaba
Maroochydore
Alexandra Headland

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Maroochydore from the north

I think it's time we said goodbye to the river for a bit, but the water is so rarely calm enough to reflect the buildings that I thought for good measure I'd better pop in this shot, taken from the north shore.
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One Sunset - Seven Pictures7 All the way to the mountains

And finally, what started out as a whimper six photographs ago, ended in a blaze of fiery orange. The saddest thing about long sunsets like this is that most people see the twilight time as their cue to pack up and go indoors to watch the news (or live pictures of sunsets)on television.

A little bit of patience is all that is required, along with a jacket of course!

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures6 - Cotton Tree at the river Mouth

There's a bit of a gap in the time sequence between this and yesterday's shot, because it was getting too dark on the beach to take a meaningful photo without some reflected light, so I high-tailed it back over the bridge to Cotton Tree, where I knew I could find a sandbag groin to get me out over the water.

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures5- Fisherman

They reckon sunset is one of the best times for fishing.

I'm not sure whether he caught anything, but I'd have to agree with the sentiment.

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures4 - Maroochydore from up the beach a bit.

And then we turn to the south and things start to glow. That's Pt Cartwright in the distance (but you knew that!) and on the right Maroochydore, just a few kilometres south across the river.

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures3 - Mudjimba Twilight

There's a time each evening, before the sunset action happens, when one wonders if the lights aren't just going to go off tonight without any fuss.

The water glows, the land goes dark, and it's all very anti climactic really, specially when there are no clouds to liven up the scene.

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures2 - Mangrove seeds with long shadows.

There's something about young mangrove sprouts that I find quite appealing. Of course very few of these will ever make it to maturity, or for that matter even set down a root, but they do seem to be enjoying just lying there on the river bank, watching the sun go down.

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One Sunset - Seven Pictures1 - Maroochydore from across the rver

I was strolling around Mudjimba on the Maroochy River north shore early last month, just clicking away mindlessly, and when I arrived home I wondered what on earth I was going to do with all these gratuituos sunset shots.

Of course!

I'll inflict them on the City Daily Photo mob!

Maroochydore

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Maroochy River Bridge a little BIG

The Maroochy River Bridge is a major connecting route, or come to think of it the only direct connecting route really between Maroochydore on the southern bank of the river and the improbably named North Shore. It's the biggest bridge we have on the whole Sunshine Coast, unlike our mountains.

This photo will remind you, that if someone from round here says he lives on a mountain, he doesn't.

Even the hills have flat bits on the tops.

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Everything New is Old again!

Then someone says, "Our factory will look fantastic with a funky new entrance statement".

And it does.

Until they change the business name, and only blotch out the sign, then let it all fade to a uniform state of muck, before parking the bin across the doorway.

Maroochydore.

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Paint me

I've been in meetings where the design manager enthusiastically waxes lyrical about the synergy of the blue and turquoise facade. The wiley old development manager waits for a break in the waxing, and declares sternly "but it'll fade so fast I'll have to paint it twice more before Christmas."

Maroochydore

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Sugar Road

Sugar Road is a busy little byway, with a mix of car sales yards, industrial buildings and showrooms that are desperately struggling to find an indentity.

This strip couldn't be mistaken even in the dark, but the weathering on the facade after a very short life, does not bode well for their presentation in future years.

Maroochydore

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Not just about flowers!

The Sunshine Coast isn't all pretty flowers and no substance you know. Ohhh no, we can do signs too.

Lots of signs.

Maroochydore

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Blue White Yellow Red

When the right choice is also the biggest!

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