Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Elevation

Would the architects really have gone to the trouble of ordering colour-matched cars to park outside?

Maroochydore

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The asbestos cement sheeting on this house has been damaged for as long as I can remember, which admittedly is not as long as it once was, but in any case it's a couple of decades since the holes appeared.

The puzzle to me though is whether they were inflicted by a particularly severe hail storm, in which case one would expect other walls and the roof to be damaged as well, or whether the windows too have been broken by errant play on the neighbouring golf course.

Maroochydore.

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Desperately seeking patina.

Amazingly, the gossamer curtains over the face of just one half of this window, are actually fly screens. The fibreglass reinforced plastic mesh has disintegrated in the sun to the extent that only the fibreglass reinforcing is left.

I have to admit I haven't seen that before!

Maroochydore

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The world begins at the end of the street

It may well be just a trick of the early morning sun, but it looks for all the world as though something special is happening in downtown Maroochydore!

Maroochydore

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Fibro

Its just another old "Fibro" beach house, but I do like the proportion of the windows.

And the way the roof over the landing was constructed as an afterthought but ever so carefully in the hope that it wouldn't look like it.

Moffat Beach

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These zigzag tracks are tunnels made by the larvae of the Scribbly Gum Moth (Ogmograptis scribula) and follow the insect's life cycle. Eggs are laid between layers of old and new bark. The larvae burrow into the new bark and, as the old bark falls away, the trails are revealed. The diameters of the tunnels increase as the larvae grow, and the ends of the tracks are where the larvae stopped to pupate.

Despite appearances it's not impenetrable, but it is quite easy to get lost within.

The black is ash, where the paperbark has done its job, insulated the tree from the heat of the fire and allowed it to live to see a cooler day.

Caloundra

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On my bucket list

Watch a game of cricket at the Caloundra Cricket Club. How terrific is it that we have a cricket ground that is still completely fenced with traditional pickets?

I hope the National Trust sees this post and takes action appropriately.

Caloundra

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