Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Shady Deals

The Real Estate Agent's window looks quite pretty in the dappled shade of the lattice overhead.

Kings Beach

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No Entry

"Kings Beach" says the sign, "No Entry" says the other, but it's OK, one can park around the corner and walk back.

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This is a very rare sight indeed. An abandoned block of flats awaiting redevelopment has been the target of vandalism over a long period of time. The site is for sale, presumably the developer has some financial issues, and now it's too derelict even for squatters.

Kings Beach

More Rhythm

If it weren't for the repetition I suspect it'd be just another house rather than an entire block of apartments!

Caloudra

Setting sun

A sensible young photographer may well have waited till morning to take this shot, but I like the monochrome effect, and sometimes I just don't do mornings that well.

Caloundra

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Ready to Rumba

Yesterday I borrowed its pool, so it's the least I can do, show off some of the geometry which has a certain rhythm to it after all.

Caloundra

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The Turn

If he'd forgotten to turn he'd have bounced across the road, onto the beach and into the Passage. The first floor pool at Rumba Resort is pretty cool though.

Caloundra

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Beach House

What exactly makes a house a "beach house" I wondered to myself, and there began the first of a series which is destined to carry on for quite some time.

A dracena, a fish skeleton in timber and blue paint are a good start.

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The Passage

Looking toward the sea, the entrance to Pumicestone Passage looks innocent enough, but the current is swift and the lifesavers can't afford to snooze.

Caloundra

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Spot the odd man out!

Can you pick it among the sea of mid rise development? The one lonely blue relic of a different past?

Caloundra

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Oblivious

It had been quite a dull day really, and then, late in the day, the sun came out, and so did all those who for what ever reason decided to test their immunity to skin cancer.

Oblivious to the danger, to the photographer behind, and the fact that nothing was perpendicular. Even the horizon seemed to be slipping away.

Caloundra

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PInk

It may not be quite a riot of colour, but before dawn it's pretty enough.

The lack of focus is a reflection of the lack of sharpness in my brain at that time of the morning, so I decided to keep the photo for posterity.

Dicky Beach

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Sunrise

Sunrise where the waters meet.

Twoway Creek

Moffat Beach

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Guess

I was afraid to look in case it read "read other side."

Noosa Beach

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Happy Daze

Paradise

A hundred metres from world class hotels, if one has a shallow draft boat, one can more for free.

Surely it doesn't get any better than this?

Noosa Woods

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Noosa Woods

Before I was old enough to be called a youth even, I would fish here with my father, climbing through the fallen casuarinas, wading knee deep in the soft sand, catching our dinner in the tannin stained waters.

It looks like erosion, and it is, but it's been happening for centuries. Estuaries are dynamic creatures.

Noosa Woods.

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Waterfront Living

Much of our youth was very well spent pretty much at the spot on which I stood to take this photograph. Back then there were no houses opposite, just sand banks and casuarinas and fish and birds and the odd well tanned surfer camping in an old panel van (as indeed we were).

Later we returned in our boat to live among the millionaires for next to no cost.

It's still one of the great mooring sites in the world I reckon.

Noosa Woods

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Once Was Advertising

When one removes the beer prices from all those little squares, and allows a couple of shadows to liven up the geometry, the result is.....

Art!

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