Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Sunday, 26 August 2018

PIneapple? Nope!

A week out of sequence, but here we see the fruit of the pandanus. On the left the hard green bit impersonating a pineapple, on the right the ripe orange one, with fruit segments already fallen. For a peek at what those bits look like, go back one week! (perhaps that's only one post?)

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.

Nuts!

Technically these are the fruit of the pandanus, not the nuts but they are the size of a child's fist, hard, and heavy and they give a fair old bonk if they hit you on the head.

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.

Beach Graphics

And the shady bits move too!

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.

SUP

Once upon a time "SUP" was a contraction for the greeting "What's up?" Now of course it's "Stand Up Paddleboard". A year or two ago, some visiting friends from Europe were astonished to see them being ridden in the surf - we on the other hand were astonished that anyone would contemplate using them in still water!

Moffat Headland

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.

Winter.

This photograph was actually taken in May, which technically is in Autumn, and the giveaway is that there is just a touch too much cloud about, but it's still quite reminiscent of a winter's day at Moffat Headland.

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.

Headland Forms

Curving the balcony face is not something that's difficult to do in construction terms, but it does make a huge difference to the street. Imagine if these buildings were all big square boxes lined in one plane....

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.

Pointless destruction

Our Council has an interesting dynamic. The planners plan, and someone pays vast sums of money for designers to design, and landscapers to landscape. Then, the maintenance guys come along, and don't like maintaining anything that can't be trimmed with a mower, so out it all comes and off to the tip.

This, at the end of our street was once a nice hedge of native grasses less than a metre high. Perhaps it will be lawn by the time I get back.

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.

Winter 2

Moffat Headland, Winter 2018

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.

Winter

There are definitely days when one thinks there's nothing wrong with spending winter at home.

Tooway Creek

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.

Another experiment

Still experimenting with that phone. Still a little amazed, but then my last one was pretty much from the clockwork era.

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.

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:

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.