Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Monday, 11 November 2013

Vintage

Another view of the foyer, Palmer Coolum Resort.

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The reception are at the Palmer Coolum resort is neatly cluttered with vintage vehicles, reflecting the mining photos of their magnate owner and all somehow neatly coordinating with the dinosaurs outside.

Meanwhile the boss's Blue Star Line has been busy tank testing the models of his new Titanic in Germany while he takes his position in parliament.

"Eclectic" is a term which comes to mind the man in trying to describe the man and his stuff.

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Blue Whale

Smiling Blue whale in the dappled shade of the Moreton Bay fig at Moffat Beach.

Moffat Beach

Chewing the Fat

Same Beach, same day.

And they're no doubt sitting round wondering if my internet problems are sorted, to which I can only reply, "Yes indeed!"

Look out world!

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Slightly faded

This photograph of Kings Beach late in the day has a sort of weird, slightly faded look about it. This could be due to the lighting at the time the photograph was taken, or perhaps to the absolute lack of bandwidth I'm still experiencing has worn it out on the way up to the cloud!

Oh I'm connected to the internet all right, according to my ISP, but of course the people who own the actual lines don't appear to have got their part of the deal quite right.

Perhaps tomorrow the colours will be less jaded!

Kings Beach

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Choices

So do I follow the yellow brick road and end up in the bin, or take the red path, perhaps less travelled?

Kings Beach
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Gush

My internet service provider sent me an SMS last week, telling me to get excited, that my new broadband connection would be in place within twenty four hours of TODAY. By my calculations that is tomorrow, and I won't have any excuses for hanging around libraries and coffee shops and fountains where there is free wifi available after then.

So here is one last gush!

Kings Beach
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Water Play

Late afternoon, the kids are home having baths and tea, and the water play area is just another fountain.

Kings Beach

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Three Lighthouses

The one in the centre is the old one of course, the one that's been there for a hundred years, the one on the right is the one that replaced it, and the one on the left, actually apartments bearing the "lighthouse" name obliterates the line of sight between ships and the other two.

Thank goodness for modern shipping technology!

Caloundra
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Almost Summer

I'm supposed to be working on the house renovation, but after my morning coffee, or sometimes before or even during it, I tend to wander back down to the end of the street to see if the beach is still there after my pre-breakfast check.

Thankfully, it always is.

Progress on the home front is not being made in great leaps and bounds.

Moffat Beach

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Heights!

When one lives at sea level, there are only so many ways of attaining height, but as the caterpillar said when he saw the butterfly fluttering past: "You'd never get me up in one of those things!"

This photograph is one of many interpretations of todays City Daily Photo theme "Heights" Please visit the gallery of others by clicking on this link.

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Take Two

That's better! No seagull and just a slightly different angle makes the water ever so slightly inviting. But it's late in the afternoon, and there's quite a wind blowing so all the sensible people are standing beside the pool taking photographs!

Kings Beach

Photobombed by a seagull

Sometimes, when it's least expected, something gets in the way of the picture.

I suspect the seagull was trying his best to get out of the way, but my exposure was a bit out anyway, so I'll just bin this one! ;-)

Kings Beach

Prosperity

In a time long gone, the Premier of our State used to count the cranes on the skyline as a measure of the prosperity of his domain.

Caloundra, on that basis is becoming prosperous again, albeit only one crane's worth at the moment, but it's a sign that something is happening in the construction industry.

Kings Beach

Colours

Glasshouses, another afternoon.

I really must do my bit to try to capture the colour changes from this one position!

From Kings Beach

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Moon, through the Norfolks

A late afternoon moon appearing through the Norfolk Pines as the last of the sun reflects on the tree trunks.

Kings Beach

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Norfolk through the Fig

"Norfolk" at Moffat Beach viewed from the playground in the park opposite!

Moffat Beach
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DUMB!

I'm certainly not referring to the poor lady sitting opposite me whose identity I've smudged a bit, but to the people who blindly enforce legislation. Here I am in a shop that is four metres deep, and four metres wide with a full width door as it's only access to the shopping mall.

Notice way up high, at the top centre of the door, is an emergency exit sign, just in case anyone missed the way out, on the way in!

Another thousand dollars worth of wiring and annual maintenance costs that serve no purpose!

Ahh, it's good to be home among the world's real problems!

Maroochydore.

Shells!

Sometimes, when the combination of wind and waves are just right, we find little piles of shells among the sand. They aren't huge, and it doesn't happen often, but it's fun when it does.

Moffat Beach

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