Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Tired as a Christmas Decoration on the first of February.

Well I'm back from my first ever "Holiday from Blogging"!

I don't mind admitting that I was a bit tired myself before taking a break for the past month, but I must confess that having spent much of that time in the delightful company of our little band of grandchildren (are you sure there are only five of them?) I may be even more tired than I was then!

Hopefully it won't take long to catch up on all the things that need doing - if one of them was for you, please accept my apology. It won't happen again.... possibly.

This photo is my interpretation of this month's City Daily Photo Theme "Tired" - for many more please click this text!

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Night Beach - From May 2017

It's new year's eve, and tonight this little patch of beach and parkland adjoining it will be filled with people, ready to see the new year in. Will we be joining them? I suspect not, but stranger things have happened.

Yes it is inviting, but please don't swim here after dark. The sharks might find you appetising, and if you were to get into trouble, no one else could find you at all.

Mooloolaba

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Wet - From April 2017

April's theme was "wet" and while we had a whole summer where the sort of wet one gets from rain was in very short supply, the pool at Kings Beach was always there to keep anyone that wanted to be wet in a suitable state of just that.

Of course, right now we have an over abundance of the wet stuff, but hopefully the storm will pass and everyone will get back to the pool in a very quick time.

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Kings Beach

Glasshouse Mountains from March 2017

When all else fails, switch to black and white and tell Ansel you liked his work.

Maleny

Another view from the Loo - from February 2017

On the lower boardwalk late in the afternoon. I'd better stop the Loo with a View series right now, before the bad puns and rhymes get out of hand.

Mooloolaba

Bushfire in the hinterland - from February 2017

Actually it's not the same shot as last Tuesday's, but it was taken at the same time from the same place, or nearby at least. I liked the odd lighting enough to risk posting a second shot.

Kings Beach

On Tippy Toe - from January 2017

I guess he's trying to sneak up on us.

Caloundra

A timeless greeting - from December 25, 2016!

Well the "retrospective" is almost over - we'll soon be returning from our lengthy break and back into the swing of posting in more or less current time. So in a move that's a bit akin to pasting a bit of paper over the greeting in last year's card and recycling it, please take the following as our heart-felt wishes for the coming year!

Santa, presents, reindeer, snowflakes and a couple of Christmas trees (sans decoration), in a summer wonderland. It's a bit difficult to find any symbol relating to the actual reason for the celebration, well there is star in the East when viewed from a certain direction, but it's all OK.

This is Australia, where regardless of one's personal belief, it's still called Christmas, a time for Peace on Earth and good will among men (at Christmas it's OK to refer to the human race as "men" too).

Here's wishing one and all a very Merry Christmas from the Sunshine Coast, where the chance of snow is about the same as the chance was of a reindeer landing on my roof last night!

Chillin' - From December 2016

We're currently doing exactly this- one of the great mysteries of life is why we have to travel 400 km to find a beach when we have a perfectly good one at home, nor why we need to live in a tent when we have a perfectly good house there, but we are. We may or may not be posting updates on one of our other blogs depending on the vagaries of internet and energy levels, who knows!

There's probably no one at the beach right now, because they are all hanging in their hammocks, lying in the shade, relaxing perhaps after a touch of over-indulgence at the dinner table yesterday. Yes, it's one of those oddities of life, that despite temperatures hanging in the early thirties, we still mostly cling to that old British tradition of taking part in a monster baked lunch on Christmas Day.

Why do we do that?

Probably so we can do nothing on boxing day and feel quite good about it. "Where are the people" you ask, "Surely if things were as crowded as you suggest, there'd be people in this shot - you didn't take it earlier did you?"

Umm.. you've got me there. I did perhaps prepare this one a day or two ago, but I can say with confidence that the scene probably looks like this today, because, well, they'd all be at the Sales wouldn't they?

Cotton Tree
Maroochydore

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From November 2016

Sunset at Moffat Beach, looking north.

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Felicity Park -from December 2016

A week or so ago I promised I'd be back to see what the lights looked like after dark.

They look like this, and Council's Christmas Tree is quite splendid as well, albeit a little off the beaten path at this time of the evening.

Caloundra

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A few hundred metres from home - from November 2016

I love living here.

I really do.

This is one of the world's great miracles and one that I can never fathom: actual photographic evidence that the sun sets in the east!

Moffat Beach

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WINTER SALE! from October 2016

A sale of winter stock here means getting rid of the pink thongs and the orange tee shirts that keep us so warm in the dead of winter.

Mooloolaba

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Our Library - From September 2016

The reading area in the Caloundra library has possibly the world's "noisiest" mural. For those who don't know who Astro Boy is, he is a little humanoid robot who continually saves the world by punching well above his weight.

He doesn't know he's small I think, and that's a bit like the Caloundra Library. It may not have the biggest collection or the fanciest building, but it does have friendly capable librarians who can get anything from anywhere, and an enormous number of services that can be accessed online.

One can even learn a musical instrument online through it's programmes. It's the way libraries should be I think!

And all of that from someone who isn't backwards in criticising where its due!

This is just one photograph from participants in the City Daily Photo theme day "Library". To see more libraries around the world click this link.

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Board-wade from August 2016

Well it can't be called a boar walk when it's underwater can it?

There'll be rain tonight and the creek will break out into the ocean on the high tide and normal transmission will resume.

Tooway Creek

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As you read this - from July 2016

As you read this, we should be camped at a beach some distance from where we live, perhaps I shall mention it elsewhere. We won't be quite so stylish though.

Did the colour of the car really match the surfboard and that of the caravan in days gone by?

I'm not sure, but it makes for a happy holiday methinks.

Caloundra

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Stoney Grey - from June 2016

More grey skies I'm afraid, but I was tired of all that blue.

Moffat Beach

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Out vile grass! - from May 2016

It turns out I was completely wrong about the kind of grass this was... those seeds were just about the most virulent... aaargh... I've been digging the stuff out for eighteen months and it still keeps bobbing up!

OK, I'm not rolling in it and if I did it has the look of something itchy, but here's the flower stem of one of our native grasses, this one is a lomandra, I think of the variety longifolia, but then all the folia in grass is longi, that's what makes it grass!

Dicky Beach

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Simplicity - From April 2016

It's hard to describe the feeling of solitude.

All it takes is a board, a wave and an ocean.

This is my take on today's theme "the beauty of simplicity". To see many others, don't forget to visit http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au

Moffat Beach

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Umbrella Trees - from March 2016

Another photograph of the umbrella tree canopy, perhaps giving just a hint as to where its name was derived.

Caloundra

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