A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Caloundra Lighthouse History


In the left corner, we have the "New Lighthouse" which if you follow the link you will discover was built in 1967 and was last in use in 1997.

On the right, the "Old Lighthouse" which has a much more interesting history and worth one more photo I think.

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Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Three Lighthouses


Let me explain:
The one on the left is the old "New Caloundra Lighthouse"
The one in the centre is the old "Old Caloundra Lighthouse"
The one on the right is an apartment block which blocks the view (and light) to the shipping channel for both of them.  Appropriately or not, it is named "The Lighthouse".

A history lesson follows tomorrow!

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Monday, 22 March 2010

Where's the lighthouse?


Here's a hint, there are three of them in this picture.

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Sunday, 21 March 2010

Glamour


It does look a bit glamorous from the water, I'll give you that, but it's no Monaco.

Can you see the lighthouse?



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Saturday, 20 March 2010

A spot of revision.


Anyone paying attention over the past few years will recall that Caloundra is to all intents and purposes, the largest settlement at the southern end of the Sunshine Coast.   Like all of the populated parts, it is confined to a relatively small geographic area, huddled against the water's edge.   Unlike many of the other centres, residential development has actually taken place on the hilly bits, giving it a little more interesting streetscape than some of the lesser endowed suburbs.


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Friday, 19 March 2010

Layers but not much Sky to Watch!

I think I could take a thousand photographs of hills at sunset and be happy with them.  Or I could just tear up newspaper and spray paint a cheap imitation.   I love the way the colour changes every second, and how it becomes unbelievably odd at times, but I'm not going to bore you with the other twenty in this set!

Of course with a clear sky we have to rely on the texture of the land to create the focal point, so if it's dramatic photos of the actual sky you are looking for,  pay a visit to Skywatch headquarters!

Maleny

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Thursday, 18 March 2010

Battens

I know I'm standing here with a camera, but I love the way that timber battens on the picnic shelter give a framed view on what's going on outside.  Even though there are no walls one gets a subconscious feeling of enclosure, and ownership of territory.
That's why I asked the people at the table if it was OK if I came "in" to take the photo!

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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Loo with a view too.


Mooloolaba has its "Loo with a View" but I think the one in Golden Beach doesn't fare too badly either.


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Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Loo with a habitat.


Much has been written about our vernacular building methodology, and to my eye the juxtaposition of timber and tin can provide a very pleasing visual result.   Of course as it ages, all those gaps provide homes for all manner of spiders and lizards and frogs and other crawly things, and the girls in our household aren't at all happy with public conveniences constructed like these.


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Monday, 15 March 2010

We're two!


Unless I'm mistaken, and I know I'm not, today marks the second anniversary of this blog, and what better way to do it than with a picture of sunset on a hill near Maleny.   

This is a popular spot for paragliders, and yes in the late afternoon sun the sky had faded to almost white, the rest was the result of a slight overexposure!

The next twelve months will almost certainly bring a number of changes in our situation, including the relocation of the place we call home, but with just a little luck and a bit of energy to be expended, we'll be able to continue with a photo each day, just as we have done thus far!   It's all pretty much downhill after the first couple of years I understand.

Thank you to all who drop by and comment, your comments are greatly appreciated.  As those who follow my other blogs will realise, we are often on the road with limited internet access, which does make regular reciprocal visits quite challenging, so thank you for your patience as well!

Here's to another year, three to go and I've caught up with Eric!  ;-)


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Sunday, 14 March 2010

Grassy Knoll


I don't know if this is an actual knoll, but I like the sound of it.

Knoll.

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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Art

 
Is this art I wonder, or a poorly focussed, poorly timed reject?

I don't care, I quite like it.


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Friday, 12 March 2010

Fig


A youngish Moreton Bay Fig tree seems conent enough with its waterfront home.

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Thursday, 11 March 2010

The Tenin Technique


 Congratulations Eric!

Today is the fifth anniversary of Paris Daily Photo and to celebrate this milestone, City Daily Photo Bloggers are attempting to imitate Eric Tenin's Technique! Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

There are a few very Australian things about this picture.  Bare feet for one, and a bicycle chain devoid of any lubrication for another.

I'm not sure whether I've succeeded in capturing Eric's style, after trawling back through several pages of Paris Photos it's clear the light is VERY different to here, and I posted this picture because it reminded me of one that I took last year for my Postcards blog, one that is much closer to the way Eric would portray things I think: a bicycle melting in Paris' summer heatwave, 20 August 2009

Paris Heat

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Balls


Soldier Crabs live here.  How do they make those tidy little balls of sand.

Why do they do that?


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Tuesday, 9 March 2010


I do recall describing Pumicestone Passage as shallow with lots of shifting sandbanks, and this probably proves the point. I may have failed to mention that Bribie Island is also narrow, and there are some fears that the ocean is about to break through its northern tip and restore the course of the passage to one that it's had many centuries earlier.
The main shipping channel to Brisbane does run quite close to shore on the ocean side, which is I suppose one of the reasons that the navigation beacons can be seen from ships at sea.
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Monday, 8 March 2010

The Leads

To put a bit of scale to the light tower, here's a view with some buildings in the picture. Many's the night in the days before GPS and satellite navigation that I've been sailing "outside" and been grateful for it's presence.


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Sunday, 7 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day seven.


The navigation beacon has an interesting structure I think.  Those bracing fins are cut from a single steel beam in a process called castellation, the halves are then used on opposing sides.

Nifty eh?

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day six.

Another day another puddle in the passage.  That murky stuff in the foreground isn't actually murky stuff at all, it's just sand in the very late afternoon, the remnants of excavations by soldier crabs.   More importantly, the tower is a lighthouse of sorts.  It provides lighting to mark the main shipping channel to Brisbane located on the outside of Bribie Island (on the left).  There's a tricky little bend that happens just abeam of Caloundra that's been the nemesis of more than one ship over the years in stormy seas.



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Friday, 5 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage Skywatch
A week of the blues day five.


Caloundra Airport isn't too far from the passage, but it's a small strip used by light aircraft and helicopters.
Sadly, development has occurred around it's perimeter and the new home owners have put enormous pressure on Council to relocate it, so another part of our very short history will soon be gone.
I will never understand this process.  The one where we allow people to build adjoining something that has the potential to cause them nuisance, and then shut down the nuisance despite it having preceded them by decades.

As usual, Skywatch photos with clouds and sunsets and pretty things may be found in abundance by following this link.
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Thursday, 4 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day four.


Being shallow and calm, means the passage is a beaut place for families to play.  It also means at low tide there are lots of puddles for me to play with in the dying light of the afternoon.


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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day three.


The passage is one of those places where the shoreline vegetation is low and the water shallow and narrow, so when the breeze is right, sailboards can play at high speed with little wave action.  Of course most sailboarders I know get bored with that and head out into the surf, and today the breeze wasn't right, so this pilot had a lot of work just to balance the sail in an upright position, let alone to make headway.

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Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day two.


From yesterday's vantage point, looking north.  The passage turns sharply right (east) which is a handy manouvre because it avoids any chance of a nasty collision with Caloundra.   The low land to the right is Bribie Island, and there is a very shallow channel through the surf between it and the mainland.   After that there is nothing but Pacific Ocean.


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Monday, 1 March 2010

Pumicestone Passage
A week of the blues day one.


Today's City Daily Photo theme is "Passageway" and as usual I probably cheated a bit by taking the broadest definition I could find.
Pumicestone Passage is a thirty five kilometre long Marine Park and conservation area, which runs from Caloundra in the North, between Bribie Island and the mainland. For those with a boating intent, be warned that it is very shallow mostly and littered with shifting sand banks.
Of course this photograph doesn't quite take in it's full length, but it is a view from Golden Beach, looking South, with Bribie Island in the background.

Post Script: Bribie Island, as you will see in coming days, is a very low, very narrow strip at this its northern end, offering little protection to this shoreline should a tsunami make it to this side of the world.  One did of course, yesterday, in a benign but none the less sobering way drawing us closer to those suffering from the consequences of the earthquake in Chile just an ocean away.  Our thoughts are with them.

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Sunday, 28 February 2010

The Same Old, Same Old


View to Maroochydore on a murky day.  Lots of fresh muddy river water in the bay mute the colour of the ocean, and the rain just managing to stay away leaves a sort of European light really, not quite what we're used to on a summer day, nor any other for that matter.

Amazingly, I look at my calendar and discover another month has gone wooshing by!

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Saturday, 27 February 2010

Fashion


Matching board, shorts and top.  Quite nice, but  I feel as though I'm working for a fashion magazine.


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Friday, 26 February 2010

Skywatch with Surfboard


With a sky like that you'd really wonder why the surfboard was still sitting on top of the car!
Well the surf didn't quite live up to the promise of the sky.

If you think blue and green should never be seen, perhaps you should check out all the other Skywatch photos!
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Thursday, 25 February 2010

Mining


When a surfer goes straight down the wave, and his board buries in the water ahead, there is only one end to the ride; going "down the mine".  This bloke isn't going to do that though, he's about to happily trundle off, to left of screen.    The water is an "interesting" colour because of all the silt flowing out of the river mouth after a week of heavy rain.

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Wednesday, 24 February 2010

In the slop


Out on the water, a lone kayaker attempts to make the most of the conditions.  The sun tried valiantly but really only managed a feeble peek through the cloud.

Well we made Watery Wednesday at least.



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Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Waiting his turn


The surf was shocking, blown out murky water from all the recent rain, so there was no surprise that no-one seemed overly enthusiastic about hitting the beach.


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Monday, 22 February 2010

Surf Kayaks

The Australian Surf Kayak championships were on at Alexandra Headland over the weekend, so I suppose it was to be expected that I'd find a few sunbathing between the showers.


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Sunday, 21 February 2010

It's Obvious!

 Well I quite like this anyway.  I can't excuse it, and I can only explain it by offering that perhaps I'm going through my "taking photos of reflections in shopfronts" phase.

I'll stop now, but I do quite like this piece of 'accidental' art.


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Saturday, 20 February 2010

Trying too hard

 OK I admit it!  Sometimes I should just give up, but well, the mix of the postergirl holding onto the branch and the reflection of the leaves from outside, just fired my imagination.


Sorry.

Perhaps a less cryptic reflection tomorrow!


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Friday, 19 February 2010

Mooloolaba Breakfast
Tinted Skywatch Reflection


Pesto Scrambled Eggs with Sausage and Turkish Toast $12.90.

Did we mention we were beachfront?

Of course the grey sky reflected in the tinted blue glass doesn't do much for avid skywatchers, but they can get their fill at SkyWatch Central.



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Thursday, 18 February 2010

Wildlife Corridor



At Maleny there is about a hundred metre wide clearing on the ridgetop from which it is possible to see all the glasshouse mountains.  To my surprise, when I arrived at sunset, it was illuminated by hundreds of "lanterns".  These are plastic tubes protecting new plants, beautifully caught by the sun for the benefit of my photograph at the moment it left us for another day.

Now presently I am rather sensitive to habitat, as my house is about to be resumed due to a freeway realignment to conserve habitat, (not mine) and selfishly I wonder why this planting could not have happened just a few metres further down the hill face, so that the one view of the mountains won't be obscured in the future.

Wherever I go it seems, conserving the habitat of other creatures is more important than conserving mine!

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Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Glasshouse Sunset



There are better days to photograph sunsets, but to my dismay when I arrived at my vantage point, I discovered hundreds of trees have been planted in front of it, and I reckon I've got a year or two at best to try again before the view simply won't exist!   So enjoy this for all its flaws!


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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Crookneck


The last of the day is almost gone, and it was hazy and murky and I thought I'd wasted another trip to photograph the glasshouses.  Then just as the sun dipped below the horizon, the faintest glow appeared on the trees in the foreground and the haze turned a murky orange.

Coonoorin from the north west.


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Monday, 15 February 2010

Glasshouse Mountains Revisited


At first glance this shot is almost the same as yesterday, but it's taken from quite a bit further round the range and it provides a perfect spot for a bit of revision while the sun is still high in the sky.  From left to right (heights are in metres, and because we are located pretty much at sea level, the height above sea level is pretty much the height above ground:

Coochin - 230 and 235m high respectively

Ngungun - 253m (the flatter hills in the background)
Tibrogargan - 364m (the first prominant square top)
 Beerburrum - 278m (the dome shape)
Tibberoowuccum - 220m
Coonowrin (Crookneck) - 377m
Tunbubudla Twins - 338m,  294m
Miketeebumulgrai - 202m (just visible in the haze)
Beerwah - 556m

 For those who are new to this blog, the full story was published back here.  Or to see all the previous shots, visit our September 2009 Archive.



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Sunday, 14 February 2010

Glasshouses Revisited



Well it's time to have another go at capturing my old adversaries, the Glasshouse Mountains.   I thought I'd take a spin into the hills late one afternoon to see what I could see.  This is the view heading up towards Maleny from Landsborough.   I rather like the khaki in the green at this time of day, it says "you are in Australia."



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Saturday, 13 February 2010

Rocky Beach

If you have to have a rocky beach, there's no prettier way of having one than the one at Noosa National Park.

Noosa Heads

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Friday, 12 February 2010

At last! A sunset sky!



I'm not sure if this isn't my first ever Skywatch post that didn't have some sort of oblique sky reference in the corner somewhere.  If one stands on the top of Mt Coolum and looks vaguely west north-westish when the sky is strangely greeny orange, this is what one sees.

It reminds me of the sky in a painting depicting the battle of Waterloo that hung in my grandparent's house half a century ago.

We lived to fight another day though.

Coolum

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Thursday, 11 February 2010

Hot Tub



In a crevasse in the rocks, two chaps with a death wish, frolic in the foam.   It's an incredibly foolhardy pastime, and they have to dive under each incoming wave to avoid being dashed against the oyster covered rocks.

Noosa Heads

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Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Monochrome Naturally

 If you are here for Watery Wednesday, you will easily spot the patch of blue, (or you could just visit yesterday's post!).   The monochrome look doesn't necessarily rely on sun and water, sometimes the trees take on the colour of the rocks as well.

Noosa Heads

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Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Another for good measure



I liked yesterday's photo a lot, so I thought I'd post another.  Once again in full colour, it's enough to make one want to experiment in monochrome!

Noosa Heads

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Monday, 8 February 2010

Full Colour


Before sunset, when the sun is low but still at full strength, the ocean sucks the colour out of the day.


Noosa Heads


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Sunday, 7 February 2010

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Seven Days of Wood
6 - Plywood




The Wood is there somewhere.   Wood I lie to you?

This weird yellow light was to be my skywatch photo for Friday, but, well I just got my days a bit muddled this week!  Strangely the sun looks very high in the sky going by the reflection on the cloud, but as can be seen from the depth of shadow in the background, it was in reality almost beyond the horizon, hence the strange illumination.  

There's still time to and check out all the other Skywatch photos!


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Friday, 5 February 2010

Seven Days of Wood
5 - Old Meets New


In days gone by the vertical pieces of this picnic shelter would have been morticed into the bottom rail, and over fifty years or more the mortices have probably had their share of water resulting in a bit of rot.   The modern solution is simple: whack on a new bit with a few screws out of a gun.

New screws look terrific for about half an hour, before the salt air descends for the first time.

Then every thing new is old again.

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Thursday, 4 February 2010

Seven Days of Wood
4 - the Paperbark



The melalueca is often referred to as a "paperbark" as it's bark is very reminiscent of a strong tissue paper.  Each layer is in a different hue,  and it was quite fashionable for a time, for artists to create entire pictures using different coloured bark pasted to a board background.

I suspect that that particular art movement has now been relegated to the "tourist kitsch" school.


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