Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Dumpers.

When the waves drop vertically like this onto shallow water they are called dumpers,

Anyone who suffers the misfortune of trying to catch a ride on the wrong wave risks breaking a surfboard, gravel rash, or even a broken neck.

The lifesavers need to be particularly vigilant despite most of their charges being barely knee deep.

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Bluebottles!

In some countries, "bluebottles" are merely bothersome insects. Here they are a kind of floating jellyfish, with a bubble on one end and long trails of stinging tentacles that follow.

It would be a bit harsh to say our summer was ruined by them, but we couldn't swim for quite a few weeks as easterly winds brought something of an inundation to our shores!

Dicky Beach

May's theme day - PURPLE

I'm thinking my shot for this theme day isn't exactly a surprise, but faded purple is OK too!

To discover dozens of different interpretations of the theme, why not visit the City Daily Photo Theme Day Gallery?

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Accident.

I am not sure why I liked this completely accidental photo of my printer enough to call it "worthy" of this blog... perhaps it's because of its sunny disposition... or it might be the mark of a desperate man!

Dicky Beach

Maroochydore Sunset.

I saw a movie a few years ago, or was it twenty, called "Siam Sunset". The title described a particular colour and the plot turned around a bizarre quest to rediscover it.

I wonder how many people are looking for "Maroochydore Sunset"?

Sunday Afternoon

Late afternoon, Mooloolaba

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Lighting.

The little LED street standards don't light up much of the boardwalk, but they do make an interesting reflection.

Tooway Creek

Moffat Beach

Had enough.

It's late in the day, and a swimmer has had enough.

Mooloolaba

Shaded Conversation.

I guess if they'd wanted us to make sense of the body language, they'd have moved into the sunshine.

Mooloolaba

Bumper Stickers

What is the collective noun for "Bumper Stickers"?

I don't know, nor do I know why I wish I'd had the Warning one on display a number of times during my working life!

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Yellow/

Today's City Daily Photo Theme is "Yellow" which is probably a bright and breezy kind of colour to once again attempt a return to regular posting on this blog.

"Regular"... well once a month counts as a fall back doesn't it?

When good business names go bad.

Best to use parallel parking bays only I suppose.

Moffat Beach.

Sea shells by the sea shore.

If it's broken it's not collectable apparently, but I think it has a place in our garden now anyway.

Moffat Beach

Summer Evening

Waiting for the bad moon to rise. It never did, so we snapped a quick shot with the phone and wandered home in the balminess of it all.

Moffat Beach

Off Home Then

The last of the day's sunshine heads off down the path away from the beach, it's job done for another day.

With a bit of luck it'll be back tomorrow.

Moffat Beach

Beach Combing.

Sometimes, when we are wandering along the beach late in the day, we find things that are worth keeping.

Overgreen.

I'm back after a lengthy break from social media if not social life, and while I've been busy elsewhere the jungle that is our back yard began to encroach where it shouldn't.

We've had plenty of heat, and despite the monster winds and seas and threats of storms, precious little rain, yet the green engulfs us!

This month's City Daily Photo Theme Day subject is "Green", co-incidentally. If next month's is "lots of gardening" I should be right for that as well.

To check out lots of other interpretations of the theme don't forget to visit the theme day gallery at:

https://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2019/02/march-2019-gallery-green.html

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Across the flats.

On each point, the rocks have a distinct formation.

Dicky Beach.

Late Afternoon.

Moffat Headland

Walking with Dogs.

Dicky Beach

Two Houses

Moffat Beach

They probably don't use the garage for parking.

Shed, disused.

Moffat Beach

Beach House

Modern house, ancient surfboard.

Moffat Beach

Two Chairs

Moffat Beach House.

Low tide, wet rock.

Dicky Beach

LImpets.

Dicky Beach

Swamp Banksia 5

The end of the flower.

Dicky Beach

Red head

Swamp Banksia day 4 of 5

Dicky Beach

Swamp Banksia 3 (of 5)

Soon it will go red.

Dicky Beach

Swamp Banksia 2

It's just that at every stage of flowering, different birds appear.

Dicky Beach

Swamp Banksia

You'll get tired of these before I do! Day one of five!

Dicky Beach

Can't see the bottom.

Tooway Creek is not very deep, but sometimes it's bottomless none the less.

Moffat Beach.

Why no sunrise photos?

I have been asked why I never seem to take photos at sunrise. I am not sure what other people are doing at 4:30 in the morning, but I am not taking photographs!

Almost sunset.

Moffat Beach.

As the sun goes down.

That last patch of sun on the beach.

Moffat Beach.

Puzzle

Just one post, rounded at the top and completely green with algae. Why aren't they all like this?

Moffat Beach.

Not Gum Nuts

Seed pods from a bottle brush.

Moffat Beach

Bottle Brush

The Calistamon flower is more commonly known as the Bottle Brush, for obvious reasons and there are plenty of bottle brushes round these parts.

Moffat Beach.

Golden Cane

The Golden Cane Palm is a native to Madagascar, and there's enough of it round here to make any Madagascan feel quite at home. It's almost as ubiquitous as the rubber thong.

Moffat Beach.

Purple Pea

There is just one question to be asked: Is this a "nice" dune pea, or a "nasty" one, and invader from across the seas intent on the destruction of all that lies beneath it, or a native happily preserving the status of the dunes for future generations?

Moffat Beach.

Crossing the bridge.

Shadows of a handrail, late afternoon.

Moffat Beach

Going...

Stripped of its asbestos cladding, the skeleton of what once was a family home sits on death row. Tomorrow a digger will come and it will be painlessly taken from this world.

Several, Not Fifty Shades of Grey.

There's a disturbing trend in our street, which is seeing the world return to the days before colour film was invented. Thankfully the inhabitants are not so beige.

Dicky Beach.

Two Grey Houses

Dicky Beach

Two nights, Two Sunsets

Moffat Headland

After Sunset

Shipping News

Barely back from a world of checking what lurks over that horizon, as the jetlag finally begins to subside with it comes that whiff of wistfulness as we gaze out to sea, hoping it'll all be waiting for us when we get back!

Moffat Beach

In the bush.

I've often tried to capture this little patch of bushland on the path to Moffat Beach. Today was the day it sort of worked for me...

Moffat Beach

That first sunset.

After an extended absence, that first sunset over Tooway Creek.....

Moffat Beach

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Ever Changing.

It has a. name, this little creek at Dicky Beach, and I can't think of it to save myself! It doesn't appear on any of the internet maps which makes me think it was bestowed in recent times.

Dicky Beach

POST SCRIPT:

Having bitten off more than I could chew in the early part of this year, I was unable to produce the catalogue which enables me to post daily on this blog while on our annual migration to the other side of the world.

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Wave Form

It's a pet peeve of mine, buildings that try to look like waves. But from this angle, at this time of day, I'm not peeved at all.

Moffat Headland.

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Top of the hill, late afternoon.

Well no, actually it's still early morning - the shadow on the western side of the trees is a dead giveaway. My bad,,,

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

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