Overcast, but quite nice!

Despite appearances, the breeze is warm, the temperature in the high twenties, and conditions are very pleasant on the beach today!

Dicky Beach

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Interest

My father used to reckon that if someone was pointing vaguely out of picture it added interest to the composition.

I reckon it just looks as though they are fiddling with the horizon.

Moffat Beach

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No.....

...... driving on skateboard paths?

Dicky Beach

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Decor

 Old surfers don't have to hunt around in expensive interiors stores to find things to hang on the wall.

Dicky Beach

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Getting There

I've been meaning to do a photo series on skateboards as transport.

Longboards, not little short trick things are a fairly common low-carbon commute.   I'm not sure about bare feet and bitumen at forty kilometres per hour though.

Dicky Beach

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Under the Boardwalk

 Actually this is over the boardwalk, under the road, and it's how I get to the beach each day.

It's a relatively pleasant spot to hang out with a fishing line apparently, although I never have.  Today the worst of the heat wave has passed, as have the greatest number of tourists, but the beach was even more crowded than yesterday.

I thought I'd spare everyone three crowded beach scenes in a row though.

Tooway Lake

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Beach Report for Annie

The temperature almost made it to 40, and the people were innumerable!

Sadly for many, the northerly breeze also brought strong rips and a nasty chop which flattened out whatever swell there was.  The majority didn't care though, they were at the caravan park packing up and leaving at the end of their holiday.

Today was change over day!

Moffat Beach

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Holidays!

Late afternoon waiting in the cool for the sun to go down, there are more people on the beach than one would normally expect, but the holidays are at a peak now.  Tomorrow the first wave of caravans and overloaded people movers will head out, leaving us once again to return to business as usual on Monday.

This year many businesses remain closed for an extra week, and of course they won't all go home until school starts for the new year later in the month.

In the meantime, if you can't beat them, join them.

I have!

Moffat Beach


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Temperatures are reaching high thirties, UV index is at an incredible 14, and I can only dream of hanging my towel on a tree and lying around in the water because at the moment my days are filled by shovelling dirt as our yard renovations get underway.

But the beach is nice to think about.

Moffat Beach

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New year reflection

I think for now I will be a little yellow leaf being carried by the wind and tide to who knows where.

The trees can stand firm with the same view every day as is their wish, but I will look forward to waking each day to a different perspective!

Dicky Beach


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Not Fireworks!

I have left posting today until almost tomorrow so that I could wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR as the sun comes up around the globe.

The photo is a detail of a coastal Banksia flower - somewhat reminiscent of some fireworks displays perhaps, if one closes one's eyes and imagines for a bit!

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The Beach House

You can tell it's a Beach House by the way the Christmas lights are stuck on the verandah with sticky tape, the  fishing rods every which way across the yard, furniture that is a miss-mash of mostly plastic throw-aways, washing on the fence and railings, and a game of cricket that goes on all day and over the fence is "six and out".

Moffat Beach.

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The smells of summer

It's late afternoon or early evening perhaps, although the sky may not look dark, the long shadows are a give-away.   Every barbecue is in use, and the smell of summer is in the air:

Frying snags (sausage) and onion.

Moffat Beach
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Gather round for a photo

There is a song written by John Williamson which goes something like:
"Well it's Christmas in Australia, time to remember all the family.
Gather round for a photo..."

How well do those lines sum up the season?  Actually the song is far more descriptive than that, but those lines are enough to describe this photo!

Moffat Beach

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Travelling in a civilised manner.

We drove back from Brisbane today after a fine break with all the family, but the highway was so congested for so much of the distance that we would have been better off rowing.

Tooway Creek

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Peace on Earth

There seems to be great irony in the fact that Boxing Day for our family often is the one that better serves for reflection and a little still in our lives.

We avoid the mayhem at the sales and just chill, happy that our seasonal obligations are over, and to have a few days off.

When we were children, before Christmas trees were made of tinsel, we used to steal a she-oak cutting from where ever we could find one, and for me at least, the smell of Christmas Day, that of a day old branch, is just one of the things shared today with our adult children.

This one was spared, and can be found on the little path near the beach at Moffat Headland.

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Merry Christmas!

In some countries, political correctness has watered down not only the message of the Season, but even its name has been erased from polite conversation.

Australia is thankfully not (yet) one of those countries.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

And the "crappy" photo? Let it serve as a reminder that it's the thought that counts!


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Another Christmas Tree - Still no snow!

I am not sure how I managed to snap this shot with so few people in the frame.  It wasn't because everyone had gone indoors to escape from the inclement weather!

Another glorious day to get the holiday season rolling.  Perhaps everyone is last minute shopping!

Dicky Beach

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Christmas Tree - No Snow

The observant will know that it's not a Christmas Tree at all, just a Norfolk Island Pine on the beach at Dicky, and the tents aren't actually holiday crowds, but competitors in the surf carnival held two weeks ago.   If I'd taken a similar shot today, the tents would have been replaced by umbrellas.

Temperatures in the mid thirties, UV index hovering around thirteen (gasp!) and perfect weather make for monster crowds!

Dicky Beach.
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In the pink

For what it is worth, the clouds didn't bring any rain, but the photo was taken a week or so ago at Dicky Beach during a surf lifesaving competition.

The pink tops were not the uniform of a particular girls' team, although in this case they were being worn by females, but are the high visibility vests required to be worn during competition after the sad loss of a couple of lives during competition in years gone by.

Sadness aside, it is a rather festive scene don't you think?

Dicky Beach
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