Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Dune Grass

I am surprised at how many places in the world I have visited where the dune grasses look just like this.

Holland, Belgium, Canada, USA,

Dicky Beach

POST SCRIPT:

Having bitten off more than I could chew in the early part of this year, I was unable to produce the catalogue which enables me to post daily on this blog while on our annual migration to the other side of the world.

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Tracks

Only rescue vehicles are allowed on the beach, and it's not hard to see where they've been. Still playing with the iPhone.

Dicky Beach

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

A huddle of Lifesavers

It's Sunday, the weather is terrible and there's no one on the beach, let alone in the water yet they huddle together ever vigilant, always at the ready.

Lifesavers

Dicky Beach

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Overcast

An ordinary day for a walk, but it's good to be out, and it's far from cool.

Dicky Beach

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Sunset at Moffs

There are a few reasons why I'm chugging away with the phone. For starters, when this shot was taken my camera weight was above my surgically induced lift limit. That aside my previous phone(s) supposedly had pretty good cameras for their time, but this one has blown me away. So here I am perservering in mixed (low) light at sunset, and it's just taken control!

Moffat Beach

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Sunset on Norfolks

Oh no! There's at least a month to go at two photos per week, watching him muck around with that darned phone. Good, isn't it?

Moffat Beach

POST SCRIPT:

I did manage to gather a scattering of photos over the last few weeks of my stay this year so sadly will now make this a weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November in the meantime feel free to keep up with our travels on our other daily blog, Fading Memories.

Walking into the setting sun.

This phone can do no wrong! If only it could learn to compose a little better and perhaps send it walking by itself....

Evening at Moffat Beach.

Looking down on the neighbours.

Apartment living.

Maroochydore

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Pandanus

Pandanus on the beach. I wonder if I start to carry my camera around again will the sun come out?

Dicky Beach

That tower

Usually when I photograph the lookout tower at Dicky Beach, I have to squint because of the bright sun reflected off the sand.

Dicky Beach

The deep blue sea

From phone to you - the Pacific Ocean at Moffat Beach

Blurring what a camera can be. Moffat Beach

Unable to gather sufficient photos to get me through the coming six months, this "Daily" blog will become bi-weekly for at least that time. As you read this I am already well on my way to a place far from here!

Day two of my experiments with the new phone, and I'm already beginning to wonder whether I'm game to cut down my carry-on luggage by a few more kilos!

Moffat Beach

faux long exposure - iPhone (the one with the letter for a number).

The New Phone goes to Moffat Beach

Unable to carry the weight of a camera for a time, and needing a new phone, well I went to the top shelf didn't I? Here is one of the first photos I took with it, part of a panorama in difficult light conditions. Forget the composition, I was really just trying to get bits of light and shadow into the shot. I'm not a new phone kind of guy, but let's just say I'm impressed.

Broke, but impressed.

A Night in Hospital

It's been a while, and perhaps some will be relieved to discover it may be a while longer until normal posting resumes. I do want to apologise for the concern I caused some by allowing this blog to go "dark" immediately following the publishing of the hospital carpark photo in March, and thank you to all who contacted me to enquire as to my well being. The photo was an unintentional portent of things that were to come.

I am indeed quite well after a lengthy but perfectly normal recovery from a bit of surgical correction which has left me rather without photographs to share.

To make matters worse it's left me without my usual catalogue which enables me to post daily while on our annual migration to the other side of the world.

I have gathered a scattering of photos over the past few weeks as mobility has improved, and if I eke them out we may well have a bi-weekly blog until our return from places other than this one.

Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully we'll resume full transmission some time in November.

Well that's the plan!

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Another Car Park

My first visit to the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital carpark, left me with a few good impressions.

As these things go, it's not expensive at five dollars for the first hour and a bit, at least at the time I was there, finding a spot was easy, and for those who are used to large hospitals in the middle of urban areas, this one is a kilometre or so from the beach and is bound on the opposite side by dense bushland. There's not much to add about population density on the coast!

Birtinya

Busy 2

It's not the first time I've published a photo from the Home Centre in Birtinya, but it is the first time the monster carpark have been anything near full.

Perhaps it's the new big box hardware store that's brought the crowds, or perhaps they were just out and about before the promised storm. In any case, the landscaping (well the trees at least) are starting to make their presence felt. In a year or two it won't be a forest, but there'll be shade for the early birds.

Birtinya

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Busy

The Sunshine Coast University Hosptial is open for business and it looks the part too - all hospital like and well it looks busy enough even if it's all squeaky clean and happy inside. I wonder though at the need for a big red "Emergency" pole just a few tens of metres from the hospital. What sort of emergency would require pressing the button just there, as opposed to knocking on the front door?

Perhaps someone who knows about these things will enlighten me.

Birtinya

.Thy neighbour's surfboard

Our neighbour has a neat little business making beach showers using old surfboards as a backing, so we never know what is going to be peeking over the fence.

Dicky Beach

Spider Lily

Today I had little more to do that to wonder why Hymenocallis littoralis is called "the spider lily". I've counted the legs, and they don't match.

Perhaps the spiders in its native Latin America are actually insects.

Kawana

"Play"

Today's theme day topic wasn't even a challenge. This is why we live where we live, the smile on our grandchildren's faces when they make it all the way in to shore!

Dicky Beach.

For lots more photos interpreting today's theme, don't forget to visit the City Daily Photo Theme Day Gallery.

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