More Leaves

And then as the shadows lengthen and reflect in the shopfronts, the leaves become a sort of visual mulch.

I still love it.

Hastings Street

Noosa

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Leaves

 The leafy pattern is not paint, but a perfectly crisp shadow from the sun shining through the patterned glass awning.

Brilliant!  (well I think so at least.)

Hastings Street

Noosa

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Iron Bars

Iron bars, the saying goes, do not a prison make.

Well no, actually they make a pretty good pub enclosure as well.

Sheraton Noosa

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Shadow

 There's nothing too subtle about our light and shade, yet the sail cloth awnings do their best to throw an entertaining shadow.

Bay Village
Noosa

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Screen Fence

Screen Fence - Noosa

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North Shore Beach House

I guess the "North Shore" tag comes from Sydney, where property sharing that location is highly sought after.  

Here, well it's really south of a lot of places as well, albeit on the northern side of the Maroochy River, and some find the prospect of waking up each morning and looking at looking at the ocean desirable indeed.

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Canopy

The pandanus provides a super dense canopy, wonderful to look at, but don't be below when a fruit drops!

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Mudjimba Tower

The Mudjimba Lifeguard tower hovers above the pandanus.

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Rain on it's way

it seems like a perfect morning as we look back towards Point Cartwright, and it is, but the clouds are building in the west as well, and it will storm this evening.

But it's been a lovely morning on the beach!

Mudjimba

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Watching the Waves - 2

And then there's a point where the colour of the sand becomes visible again.

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Watching the waves - 1

I love the way on a clear sunny day, the sand turns blue as the film of water racing back to the ocean reflects the sky.

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Between the flags

On a day when the Lifeguard has not much to do, this is the view from between the flags at Mudjimba!

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Mudjimba

Mudjimba (Old Woman) Island sits out there watching us watching her.

It's nice to see all signs of flood are now completely gone, debris has disappeared and the water is back to looking something more like water should!

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Glimpse

I've often remarked about the excitement evoked by that first glimpse of the beach through the trees as one walks through the dune system.  

Double it if you see Mudjimba Island on the way.

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Hedge

The golden cane palms provide a dense hedging screen to the resort, and are often used where privacy is preferred, or perhaps a service area needs to be shielded from view.

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Are we relaxed?

The view from the sanctuary of our modern day cathedral, looking towards what might have been the cloisters.

Twin Waters


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Our culture is very much about staying out of the sun as much as possible, so I suppose everyone who is at the pool is either in it, or sleeping under the trees.

Twin Waters

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Welcome to the Beach

It's mid week at the resort, and not a footprint to share the beach with.

Just how did they get those buckets there?

Twin Waters

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Cathedral

The closest thing we have to the grand cathedrals of other cities, are the grand foyers in some resorts, offering silence, and a refuge from the evils of the workaday world.

Twin Waters

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Resort Entrance

Japanese designers have used sound for centuries, perhaps millennia, to assist one in perceiving the intent of the space.    

Fountains in resort entries create a holiday atmosphere quite admirably, at once triggering a feeling of calm relaxation as one enters, and a desire to seek out some of the "facilities".

Twin Waters Resort

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WunPalm

But I can count too, no free, or is it for?   I'm guessing wunpalm is pigeon, but there have been a few more planted since it was named.

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Washing

I've never quite got my head around drying swimwear, after all it's only going to get wet again in the afternoon.

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Roadworks

The shortcut to Kenilworth has been out of action for a year or so while the road construction crews reparil the land slip.   For occasional tourists such as we are, this has meant an additional fifty kilometres or so to drive through rather pleasant countryside, but for locals it must have been a pain.

But the road is open albeit with short delays and a couple of detours, and work is continuing, in those relatively rare times in recent months when it's not raining.

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Beyond Nambour

We are just a few kilometres from the ocean, well perhaps thirty or so as the crow flies, but we are miles from anywhere.  Nambour lies just beyond the ridge, but we are still well within the city boundaries.

Obi Obi

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New Year Party

The sign says "new year party here", but I can assure anyone who seeks such assurances, it wasn't just put there for this year.  Despite the lack of signage, I'm guessing this is the Obi Obi School of Arts hall a community hall that's served the Obi Obi population for more than just new years parties over a long period of time!

Obi Obi

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Umm

The steps to the veterinary surgery in Kenilworth (which I mistook for a butcher shop at first glance - oops!) have an interesting puzzle.   I thought I could find the solution by changing the camera angle, and I'm still not convinced that if I walked down the footpath a bit all this wouldn't turn into a cow, but for now, it shall remain a dismembered mystery.

Photographs of the puzzle complete will be welcome!

Kenilworth

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Elizabeth Street

Elizabeth Street is the main street in Kenilworth, and I love it for the hint it gives at what may lie beyond.   It's the sort of street that makes you want to walk to the top of the hill, just to see what's there.

Kenilworth

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Natural Air

There's an old trick to getting air circulation that was employed particularly on commercial buildings and sheds in the old days.   It involves simply leaving out the sheeting on the top bit of the roof, and building a rolled "cap" over the top leaving lots of gaps and the ends open.    The roof sheeting heats the air below, hot air rises and moves out of the cap, bringing in a drift of cool(er) air from the outside.

We ignored these principals for years after the invention of insulation, and air conditioning, but they are making a return.

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Queensland

Nothing says "you're in Queensland" more than a wide verandah and a mango tree.

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Cheeses

The Kenilworth cheese factory produces a number of tasty staples, but I can't help but think there's a certain romance that isn't there.

Why is it that when one thinks of making cheese, one thinks of stone cellars and wooden churns.  The reality is all very much a letdown!

Modern health regulations very much mean stainless steel and concrete, and in the absence of a 600 year old stone building, well concrete blocks are the next best thing.

It tastes OK though, and the ice cream is just what the doctor ordered on a hot day.

Kenilworth

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View from the bakery

No, you work it out, I'm trying to finish my coffee.

Kenilworth

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Red

Pedestrian traffic,

Kenilworth

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Window

 In the old days, metal sunhoods really did a good job of protecting the windows from heat and water, but I have no idea why the glass was "obscure" preventing any view through it.  It was as though the inside was a refuge, hiding all reminders of the world outside.

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Shade

I wonder if the cows get there early to find the shadiest spot.

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Farmhouse

High on stilts, there's plenty of room for a tractor underneath, or for flood waters to flow unimpeded.

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Towards Kenilworth

Heading to the western boundaries of the city, one doesn't have to look very hard to see remnants of what was once a thriving dairy industry.   The industry still exists although I suspect this milking shed is no longer used!

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Fabric

There is lots to observe in the windows of a stranger's house, but I particularly like the way the shadow from the overlapping louvre blades makes a pattern on the fabric.

I'm sure it would cost a fortune to buy it like that.

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Moth

 A Moth of unknown species, but large enough to carry paying passengers, finds a handy spot in the shade of the poor timber cutter's hat.

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Terminator

 Sadly, vandalism has left Eumundi's monument to the woodcutting industry looking more like a monument to Terminator Two.

I'm sure some brave person got an enormous thrill from flogging a one armed inanimate object until it fell apart.   Hopefully one day someone will return the favour.

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Historical

I'm not sure if the clock on the Eumundi and District Historical Association's wall is stopped in remembrance of some important event, or whether it's just always tantalisingly close to Beer O'Clock.

Photographed at ten a.m.

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Empty Markets

The empty market stalls cast rather pleasing shadow patterns on the paving.

Midweek at Eumundi

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More verandahs

More verandahs in Eumundi

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Empty

I never ever see Eumundi like this.  That's because usually I go on a Wednesday or a Saturday when the place is transformed into a bustling market town.   It looks positively deserted in between times.

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Joe's Waterhole

 No prizes for guessing what one goes to the Waterhole for.    Here's a clue: it's not to drink water.

Eumundi

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Shadows

Following yesterday's post, it has to be said that light and shade are elements of extremes. There's no subtle play here, it's either sunlight, or it's not.

Shadows

Eumundi

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Shaded Verandahs

Living in this part of the world, we take shade for granted, if it's not in the sun, it's shadow.  Buildings traditionally have coverings over the footpaths to keep us out of the sun, and as a bonus out of the rain!

Eumundi

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CWAQ

The Country Women's Association was once a mainstay for women living outside the cities.   Anyone who is over forty will know at least one CWA cake recipe off by heart.

On another note, when electricity came to town, no one mucked around being discreet about it, the switchboard just got bunged up beside the front door and to heck with the consequences!

CWA Hall
Eumundi

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Time Travelling

As you read this, I am actually spending some time in France, so the question you may rightly ask is : Is the 2CV a time machine that we've used to commute between hemispheres, or is there something wierd going on with the alignment of the planets?

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Public Buildings

The public buildings originally took a similar form to the houses.  Post Offices often had a verandah which was put to good use providing shelter for the boxes.

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Queenslander

Historically our houses were made of light weight timber, held off the ground on timber stumps with a verandah at the front (in suburbia where space was at a premium) or on all four sides.

This one was a typical plan form, a corridor up the middle, and two rooms on each side of it.  After World War 2 the population boom saw most enclose their verandahs with glass or asbestos cement louvres to create "sleep-outs" or sleeping verandahs.    

Landscaping in most back yards was confined to grass, with a vegetable patch and a "chook" run (where the laying hens resided).

There is a bit of a myth about how cleverly built for climate these places were, but with no cross ventilation or insulation rest assured they didn't provide the respite from the extremes that legend has would have us believe.

Eumundi
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