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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Back to the Flats then

It's not just the caravan parks that enjoy strong occupancy, judging by the number of lights in the beachfront apartments, occupancy is pretty high in winter there too.

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Back to the Caravan

During winter our caravan parks are full of southerners, here to enjoy our mild climate. This one looks to be a veteran of the seventies, judging by the style.

Mooloolaba

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Time for Dinner

When it's a chilly twenty degrees (celcius) no one in their right mind is going to go out to dinner. Well not without the beanie on anyway.

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Late Afternoon 3

Late afternoon means no one wants to throw your stick anymore.

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Late Afternoon 2

Late afternoon at Cotton Tree means a bit of sitting around, a drop of your beverage of choice, a bit of fishing......

Cotton Tree

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Late Afternoon

Late afternoon at Cotton tree means a bit of fishing, a bit of cleaning the catch, a bit of playing catch.

Cotton Tree

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Winter fishing

It's winter for crying out loud.

It must be less than 20° C and I'm walking on the beach with wooly socks, jeans and a light jacket on in deference to the season if not the temperature, but that doesn't mean it's right to be a tourist and pretend that there's warmth in that there sun. Not even if you're fishing!

Mind you, this photo was taken a month or so ago, and last week's temperatures have been in the balmy thirties and even thirty-seven yesterday... just like the height of summer!

Cotton Tree

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Tinny

I've mentioned the tinny before, and this is what they do second best: sit out in the open with little or no need for maintenance between fishing trips.

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Yellow Eyelids

Surely it's the next big thing in fashion!

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Fast Food

Pelicans have a sqeaky clean image round here, not like the greedy seagulls, but it wouldn't be smart to stand between a pelican and his dinner!

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They're coming back!

A few months ago we visited the vast seabird breeding colonies in central Australia. Slowly the birds are reappearing, wandering around casually and pretending that they never left.

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The Last Bike Path Challenge

If you made it through yesterday, the last great challenge awaits. Now the trick is to go THROUGH the power pole, since clearly there's no room either side.

Happy Trails!

Buderim.

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The Bike Path Challenge

Every now and then I get the impression that no one in Council's office ever rides on bikeways. Here is a lovely downhill bit, but the challenge is to duck under the street sign, while setting oneself to so that one's handlebars miss the big post, and one's wheels miss the embankment.

If there's someone coming the other way, you both die.

Buderim

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This means YOU!

Is putting more posts in a way of emphasising a point in the same way as using multiple question marks is ????

I like to ride my bike in and out between the posts in the hope that they'll just keep putting more in until I stop.

Buderim

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Fluffy lowers on the bike path too!

If one isn't riding too fast by the time one reaches the edge of the dark foresty bit, one can stop to smell the fluffy flowers, like this callistemon.

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Bike path prettiness

If one looks around, even the rattiest of weed can look quite pretty if the sun hits it from the right direction. It's worth getting off the bike to take a picture I think.

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My bike path.

Here's another piece of my commute.

The path isn't very wide, but it's a delightful interlude, and it happens just before the hilly bit.

Buderim

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Bikepath Skywatch

I ride my bicycle to the office, there's a particular path that runs through a little patch of rainforest. Sometimes I stop for a bit, just to look up into the canopy.

Buderim

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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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Five Fluffy Flowers Six Well I never claimed I could count!

The trouble with deciding on a number in a series is that there are just so many pictures that have to be left out. Dear me, I haven't even started on the Banksias.

Never mind, after this Calistemon we'll get back to something else for a time!

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Five Fluffy Flowers Five

The Wattle tree does of course provide Australia's floral emblem, but the wattle flower comes in many shades of yellow ranging from this beautiful cream, to a vivid yellow. The form also varies from these long strands, to simple pom poms, but one thing is true of them all: when a wattle tree is in flower, no one can mistake it for anything else.

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Five Fluffy Flowers Four

I love this flower, and to my great shame I can't recall the name of the bush to which it is attached. Perhaps it will come to me shortly, or perhaps someone can assist!

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Five Fluffy Flowers Three

Eucalypts have a great range of flowers, usually little fluffy things like this, but they are in the tops of the trees and are not visible to the casual passer-by. I was a bit lucky to find this on a small tree a few metres above the ground.

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Five Fluffy Flowers Two

This is a bit of a girly shot if I do say so myself. I thought if I did a bit of an arty focus thing, no one would notice that I can't remember the name of the plant.

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Five Fluffy Flowers One

I was walking through our suburb the other day, basking in the glorious winter sunshine, when it occurred to me that we are blessed to have so many plants which flower all year round, or specially in winter. Then it seemed that so many of them had extended stamen or petals that it was worth a short photographic series.

This one is the Golden Penda, Xanthostemon Chrysanthus and they look fabulous when the trees are in full flower.

Mountain Creek

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Blue White Black

I wonder if the engineers who designed the freeway overpass ever held the model up to the sky, and whispered.... "Yesssss, it looks terrific."

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Blue White Yellow Red

When the right choice is also the biggest!

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Night

I thought it might be fun to see the difference between night and day, so I returned the next evening to repeat the shot I used yesterday. This photograph was taken approximately two minutes after last light, all signs of the sunset had disappeared but there was just enough light to illuminate the clear winter sky and the sand below.

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Cotton Tree

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Evening Skywatch

These buildings have featured a few times over the past year or so, but usually they are in the far distance.

Evening on the beach, an hour before sunset brings crisp light and long shadows and of course that Sunshine Coast trademark clear blue sky.

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Cotton Tree
Maroochydore

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This is not an Island

Actually there are two islands here, the "smaller" on the left, is actually Mudjimba or "Old Woman" Island, while the larger, is what is left of the northern spit at the entrance to the Maroochy River.

If one was keen enough to search Google Earth, one would see that until quite recently there was rather a large amount of sand connecting this small hill to the mainland, which in part will help to explain the stairs and outlook structure. Now, well swimming seems to be the ideal way of visiting!

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La Balsa Park

In November 1970 a raft carrying a crew of somewhat intrepid explorers, arrived from South America and landed at Mooloolaba. This pretty park near the point of the landfall has been named in commemoration of the Raft and the expedition:- La Balsa

Just over that ridge is the ocean, the beach and rocks below Pt Cartwright that I've been posting pictures of for the past month. Behind me is the river mouth, and all of that might be a nice tidy way to bring this series to a close.

What's next? Buildings? People? Flowers?

Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Buddina

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Reality Check

There have just been too many pretty beach photos of late, so despite the fact that I've been threatened with a horrible end if I publish any more boring Nambour photos, I've taken my life in my hands just for today to bring you this one!

With it's patchwork roads, and disused cane tram lines running through town, it's hard to believe that it's just a few kilometres from the beach. The Sugar Mill was closed in 2003, and some say the heart was ripped out of the town, although by many other benchmarks that wasn't the case, unless of course one happened to be from a family who lost employment in the industry.

For the curious among us, here's a link to a video from YouTube, recalling those glory days of not so long ago, when steam and soot and industrial noises made their way romantically through the heart of town! The video is credited to Ken McHugh.

Nambour

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At Cartwright Finally!

I hope it hasn't been too much of an anti climax after all that. Here we are at the base of the cliff after risking being swept out to sea, or buried under a landslip, or maybe wasting so much time paddling round in the rockpools that we'd be home late for tea!

No we didn't climb the cliff, there's a nice gentle slope round the corner that is much more appealing to those who want to arrive with all limbs intact.

Pt Cartwright

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Reflecting on Pt Cartwright

Well we've nearly made it to the point, just a few larger rockpools to go and we're there!

That water tower does nothing for the aesthetics of the neighbourhood, but it does stop people in the surrounds from going thirsty! Pt Cartwright would be the highest spot for around ten or more kilometres, so it's a fairly practical place to place a water storage structure, but it's definitely been designed by an engineer not an artist!

Pt Cartwright


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Danger

If we go too far left, we'll get very very wet. If we go too far right, there's a very real danger that we'll get squashed by landslips, just as this warning sign did.

OK, we'll wait till tomorrow to wrap up the Pt Cartwright tour!

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Skywatch with Lighthouse

I suppose enough time has elapsed that we can continue our tour round Pt Cartwright eh?

As the waves crash on the rocks, they fall into pools of all sizes, reflecting the sky and of course the ever-present lighthouse.

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Crash

Today it's very calm indeed, but the ocean is full of surprises. The dangers of walking round the rocks are hidden well, but if a wave can appear from a sea as gentle as this, just imagine what happens when it's angry.

Pt Cartwright

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Hard Bits

I do believe it was Sir Francis Chichester who remarked that crossing oceans is easy, it's just the hard bits round the edges that one has to be wary of.

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Rockpools

Somewhere between the ocean and the shore, rock pools form, and as rock pools seem to do, these house all manner of marine life.

Mostly these are inaccessible as wave action ensures that only the fool hardy or ignorant will venture there.

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