Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Wiggly Wall

This wall was obviously built on a windy day and the mason's stringlines weren't pulled tight enough. To make matters worse, the metalworkers plumbs were out of whack as well.

Despite all of that, it looks rather pleasing.

Bulcock Beach.

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Picnic Table

Picnic Table - Bulcock Beach

Caloundra

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Looking Down

The Boardwalk at Tooway viewed form the road bridge.

Dicky Beach

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In days of old, rubbish bins were small and kept behind fences. On collection day, the nice men would come and collect them, empty them into their trucks and leave them back behind closed gates.

Now it is not good enough to have one small bin, we must all have at least two large ones (one for recycling) a sad reflection on the amount we consume, and the amount we waste.

The combination of power lines and wheelie bins do not make a terribly positive statement in the streetscape, thank goodness for the trees opposite.

Dicky Beach

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Pumicestone Passage

On a clear day, it looks .... clear.
The Pumicestone Passage is as enticing as it looks, but swimming just here is not advised as the current can be a little beyond the ability of the average swimmer. A few hundred yards inland is better for those who would like to survive!

Caloundra

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Sunset Facing East

Sunset is not an easy thing to capture when you are facing east, but it does show the grass in dire need of a drink. We have drought again!

Moffat Beach.

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Fig eats Fig.

I'm not sure what's going on here - I first noticed it earlier in the year. The new fig is planted in mulch in the fork of the existing one. Originally it was in a hessian bag, now wrapped in plastic. Is it a council parks job, or someone taking nature into their own hands?

Moffat Beach

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Waiting

Waiting, presumably for school to finish!

Dicky Beach.

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Lifesavers!

Lifesavers from a generation ago marching on the wall of the first aid station.

Dicky Beach.

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Landmark or Icon

I almost used this photograph as my contribution to the "Landmark" theme, but in the end decided that no matter how we use the beach flags as meeting points and markers as well as for their intended purpose, they were temporary, moving every day to the safest bathing position, even being removed some days when conditions are not safe, so they probably aren't a landmark strictly speaking.

Mooloolaba

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Opposite Landmark Resort

Just opposite landmark resort there is a building which has been slated for demolition for at least a decade. The "coming soon" signs are gone now, but so are many of the tenants.

Is there a line that can be drawn between "urban character" and "eyesore"?

Mooloolaba

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Landmark

Strictly speaking it's Landmark Resort in Mooloolaba, looking seriously in need of some love and attention. It's seems to be a bit of a recurring theme on the coast: buy and apartment all shiny and new and expect it to stay that way forever without spending a penny on maintenance.

The salt air does not treat things kindly, perhaps eventually someone will notice.

Mooloolaba,

Disappearing Landmark

There's so little of it left that it's hard to believe that it's still a landmark, but those jagged black bits which breach the surface of the water, are all that remains of the iconic wreck of the SS Dicky, the ship from which the beach derives its name.

The other bits have been removed for preservation apparently, but I am yet to find out their present whereabouts.

Dicky Beach

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One of those days!

Have you ever had one of those days when even though you had a whole list of things to do, you couldn't get motivated?

That was today. I tried sitting on the beach till the feeling passed, but it never did.

Mooloolaba

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View from the Bank

The back streets of Mooloolaba have a sort of sub-tropical, comfortable feel, despite the wall of concrete between them and the water's edge.

Mooloolaba

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Spring

Spring is a strange time in our part of the world. It brings with it moderate temperatures (approaching thirty degrees C), usually little rain, cloudless skies, and a sort of listlessness that promises little. Colours become muted, and lost in the afternoon haze, the sky annoyingly subdued.

Perhaps I am being annoyingly ungrateful!

Glasshouse Mountains (the village!).

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Iceland

It's funny how when one travels one is constantly reminded of places near home. Here though we are home and reminded of our travels.

This stranded jelly fish for instance, looks so much like a piece of glacier ice that for a moment we were taken back in time to another place!

http://bitingmidge.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/some-days-are-diamonds-vic-to-hofn-10.html

Dicky Beach

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Twilight

I've been trying to identify some of the things that perhaps we take for granted, or simply just don't notice when we live here. One of them is twilight, or actually a complete lack of it.

The shadows grow long and soft across the beach, the sand changes colour from gold to brown, and then someone throws a switch somewhere and it gets dark.

Dicky Beach

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Cure for jetlag
Dicky Beach

There is something quite soothing about dipping one's jetlagged toes in the rockpools near home, the sky impossibly clear and the water temperature warmer than the air temperature in the places we have just left.

No doubt about it, we're home for summer!

Dicky Beach

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Stumers Creek

Where creek meets ocean, or doesn't as the case may be.

On a higher tide the two will be reunited.

Coolum

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