Nursery

In this case, "Nursery" is the name we give to "garden centre", perhaps because it's where baby plants are nursed into being?

Maleny

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Ye Olde Butcher

The shopfront is real, as is the awning, but I'd be curious to know how close to original the lettering style and the lovely leaf motif is.   I suspect that our perception may be different from the historic reality, but I'd love to see an early photo to prove me wrong.

Maleny

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Frangipani Paving

Brick paving on a hot day.

Montville

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Sub Tropics

Not a native plant in sight, but a rather nice display none the less!

Montville

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Courtesy Vehicle

If ever you are in these parts and without transport.....

Caloundra

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Steve's Boards

Published simply because I like the photo.

The late Steve Irwin "The Crocodile Hunter", was a keen surfer who from the time he was jus the kid from the reptile place on the highway,  could be found most mornings on a wave somewhere on the Sunshine Coast.  He went on to turn his parent's reptile park into a world famous zoo and himself into a warrior of sorts for conservation, but whenever  he was home he'd still be found out on the waves, and not always wearing his boots and safari suits.

Some of his boards were/are on display in the "Surfing through the Decades" exhibition in Caloundra which closes tomorrow.

Caloundra

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Moffateers

A badge of honour - this board has been ridden on waves higher than six feet at Moffat Headland, and in the days when six feet was taller than most men!

I don't think I've ever seen an "12 plus" badge, but they did exist in the good old days.

Caloundra

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Down Memory Lane

A super collection of old surfboards "Surfing down the decades"  is currently being exhibited at the Caloundra Performing Arts Centre.

Admission is a gold coin donation to Surfers with Disabilities, and you have three more days to get down there.  For those in the northern hemisphere... just be content to look at this photograph and be assured it was a nostalgic old ride for some of us!

Caloundra

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Entry - Moffat Beach Post Office

Unlike some countries in which I happen to live, dogs and bicycles are not necessarily welcome inside trading houses here.  The nice folk at the Moffat Beach Post Office make provision for that, and there's even somewhere to charge your electric bike, (or dog if you don't have a real one) or perhaps have a shave.

Actually I've been parking my grand dog at this very spot for several years and hadn't noticed the power outlet until reviewing this photo, but I'm sure I'll find a use for it in future!

Moffat Beach

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From the hinterland

A few days ago I posted a photo titled "Stags, Elks and Monsters".    If I'd adjusted the exposure just a little to ignore the heavy shade of the trees, this is what we would have seen.

The coast looms somewhere near the change of colour.  We can't sit in Montville looking down without remarking on how sparsely populated our town really is.

Montville

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Clare and Michael

An old European tradition seems to be gaining a foothold here, no doubt (with the greatest of respect to Clare and Michael whose lock tells me they were celebrating their first anniversary), spurred on by commercial interests from interested parties such as the people making these heart shaped locks.

Originally the tradition had the lock clasped to a bridge stanchion on the wedding day of those concerned, and the key thrown into the water so that the bond could never be broken.

I am not sure what the symbolism in the barbed wire is.... hopefully it's not a reflection of that first year.

Glasshouse Mountains
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Roofscape

It's all fake, a pastiche as Kevin McCloud might say, new buildings that don't quite mimic the old in detail or proportion, but at the same time the result is not at all unpleasant so who cares?

Montville

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Concerns

I am not at all concerned that this shop has metal sheep for sale, nor that anyone might actually buy one, but I am bothered quite a lot by the front fork on the bicycle beyond which appears to be welded on back to front!

Montville

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Whirlygigs

It's possible to buy just about anything that spins in the wind at the whirligig  shop in Montville!


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Road Signs - Australia Day

No, it's not a porcupine, it's an Echidna or spiny ant eater, and yes we do see them quite often trundling across the road.

This sign has a lovely graffiti touch to it, with the wobbly eye stuck on, and it has the merest hint of what was once a common sight - the impact of some sort of missile perhaps from a slingshot on the image itself.

Once, when guns were more easily available, many if not most road signs such as this were used as targets, often with the image of the animal so littered with the dents of bullets that it was obscured entirely.   It wasn't just the animal images though, if there was an "O" in a sign, it would be targeted as well.

Happy Australia Day!  (If that is an appropriate greeting, and I'm sure it isn't!)


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The rooster question

Here it is, a life-sized chicken, made in some exotic country to our north no doubt, and rendered in baked enamel.   In the background is another and a rooster to watch over them.  They are for sale in a shop in Montville and while they look terrific, I can't help but wonder... what would I do with it?

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Stags, Elks and Monsters

Staghorns, Elkhorns and Monsterio growing in the forest garden.   The monsterio is not a native, but  texturally it just slots in happily I think.

The post title?  Well we do have a propensity for shortening any name and that is how we'd refer to the above plants if we were in conversation.

Montville

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Same View - Different Morning

I could get all misty eyed wondering how this can possibly be the same place as yesterday, the difference is extraordinary.   But it is.  Perhaps it's a little later, but not much, and of course the tide is in.

It makes getting up early a pleasure!

Moffat Headland

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Ray of Hope

For the first time in almost seven years (gasp!) a few days or actually over a week of posts are missing!   I have no idea where they have gone, but shall restore them over the coming day or two!

The internet remains one of life's great mysteries, I think about it often as the sun rises over Moffat Beach.


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Fan not fanning!

It was thirty-five degrees on the day I took this photo, yet the fan was stationary.

Perhaps we all felt that the reflections of the shaded bush beyond would be enough to provide sensory relief!

Montville

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