Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Looking Out

There are all sorts of things to look out for when one is at the edge of the ocean, or is it the edge of the continent itself.

This photograph is one of many of the City Daily Photo community's celebration of "Looking Out", the theme for the first day of this month.

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Not Today

This was not taken today. Today was (relatively) bleak, windy and wet, although compared to winter in the northern hemisphere the temperatures were quite pleasant.

No one was playing volleyball today either.

Moffat Beach

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Faking Old Photos

I am not sure why after investing quite a lot of money in a nice camera, I would invest even more in software to degrade the photographs that it takes, but I have and I can produce photos that would pass for something from another era to all but the most observant.

For instance, wheelie bins weren't around in the seventies, and the dark strip of bitumen at the edge of the pavement is a giveaway as well. The sealing of roads to the edges, and proper kerb and channel for rainwater is a very modern convenience.

But it's bin day, and that's probably all that matters.

Moffat Beach

All it takes

A beach towel, a belly board and a solitary flip flop are all it takes to have a great day at the beach. I am not sure why one never sees flip flops in pairs, but one doesn't.

Moffat Beach

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Beachy Greens

We've seen a whole range of colours over the years signifying "the beach". Once they were bright, cheery, almost gaudy presumably evocative of the good times to be had by all, and then we had the terribly exotic "spanish" influence, all whites with orange and mission brown.

Lately we've been all sea-mist and beige.

I'm not sure whether it's because I am of a certain age, or whether the current fashion truly is a longer term sign of maturity of our community, but I rather like the way the colours have stopped fighting with their surrounds.

The Dawn Treader

It's not the first time, nor will it be the last, that I have taken a photograph of the "mouth" of Tooway Creek. Or the silted up lake as the case is at the moment, until the next rain falls.

This one, as yonder breaks the dawn of day.

For those who are curious, that's well before five am at the moment. The things we do for our art.

Moffat Beach

Tooway again

I was sort of hanging over the hand rail watching the reflections in the water, and came to the realisation that I hadn't photographed the walk from this angle.

So I did.

Moffat Beach

Your yellow grass matches your car.

We do need rain, and the early morning light only serves to highlight the desire of the lawn for a long cool drink.

Dicky Beach

Green Pole

One could be forgiven for thinking that the pole was coloured to tone ever so cleverly with the colours of the suburb, but it's actually just a CCA (Copper Chrome Arsenic) treated pole carrying electric wires to the houses behind.

Dicky Beach

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Yellow Slash

OK, the yellow is the lid of a recycle bin, but it made a nice highlight against a sea of neutral green-grey.

Dicky Beach

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Red Square

We are no fewer than twelve thousand kilometres from Mexico, yet sombreros and sleeping Mexican figures seem to bob up from time to time, along with suitably exotic desert-motif planting.

It's all a part of the "Californian" influence I suspect, which swept through our housing styles in the sixties, but I also suspect that it's not a deliberate expression of that style.

The square? Well that is a deliberate expression!

Dicky Beach

Finz

I can't say for certain that anyone actually spells them with a "z", but if I was to be in charge of spelling for a day, I'd change the spelling of surfboard finds to better reflect the ZZzzzing they provide the rider!

Moffat Beach

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Dilly

At the end of the line on the river bed is a flat crab net, or "dilly" as my grandmother would have called it. At the other end is a bridge.

It's probably not allowed, crabbing from a bridge, but no one is likely to complain, and I get to take a photograph of a piece of string with a story.

Tooway Bridge

Lemon, Lime and Bitters

It's quite warm outside, and we're ready for a drink, but the tinted glass does add a disconcerting glow to the air conditioned space within.

Alex Surf Club
Alexandra Headland

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Meditating

A solitary thinker sits watching the procession of ships heading out to sea in the early morning.

Moffat Beach

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The Lunch Menu

Reading the lunch menu, Alex Surf Club.

Alexandra Headland

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Journey's End

The Short Tailed Shearwater, or Mutton Bird is one of, if not the most prolific bird in Australia.

Each year about this time they arrive along our coastline in their squillions from their northern hemisphere habitat in the Baring Strait, or fail to arrive as the case may be. This year dozens of dead or dying birds have washed ashore somewhat ignominiously on every beach on the East Coast of Australia, beaten by the journey.

They who know about these things are quick to assure us that it is not a particularly unusual event, that each year many emaciated birds perish on their journey, but do not necessarily was ashore as has happened in the current circumstance.

Having flown a similar distance myself quite recently, I suspect I have an inkling of just how they feel, and remain ever so grateful that I didn't have to use my own wings.

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Back of House

Behind Sunshine Plaza.

Just add water and a patch of blue sky and everyone will want to buy something!

Maroochydore

Ark

There could be an argument that this piece of retail decor is actually a life boat to be used in the event of inordinate amounts of precipitation, but in reality we have had no precipitation at all for many months, so even a little would be an inordinate amount!

It never rains here, but it pours!

Maroochydore

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Clive's Drive

A glimpse of the entrance driveway from the clubhouse at Palmer's Coolum Golf Course. Relevant this week because the PGA tournament that was once held here was held on the Gold Coast last weekend.

Clive clearly understood that the cost of running the tournament was far more than the income it generated for him, which is fair enough, but it's a pity the city didn't do some numbers to quantify the benefit the business community at large derived from the event. There again, it's probably just as well the town let it slide now that Clive is a MP.

Imagine the hue and cry if he'd been given some sort of grant to keep it running!

Coolum

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