Gold Coast 2

 

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Christmas Eve in Corinda

The sun sets on a beautifully hot Christmas Eve...

 

My tiny tree (I love fibre optics :-)

Gold Coast - My First Glimpse

First pictures taken whilst visiting inlaws in Tugun, a town on the Gold Coast, not far from Coolangatta.

Gold Coast - A beautiful Summer's Day. You can see the coastline stretching across centre right, Surfer's paradise is just about visible.

The sand is so much cleaner than most of the beaches I've been to in the UK. The sea is varying shades of a tropical blue, the plant-life lush and green and varied...beautiful. I hope to visit the Great Barrier Reef and/or the Whit-Sundays one year and see some underwater creatures...

My inlaws' place is 5minutes walk from this area :-) you just walk straight out on to the beach, very peaceful and not as crowded as Surfer's Paradise for example.

The sky goes on forever here --Hope you know what I mean by that-- It's just that everything seems more open plan, not entirely cluttered with greyness like many parts of Birmingham.

The glare of the sun off the white sand and the pavements was dazzling, took a while to get used to. The heat is not a problem so far --though it is set to get much hotter-- as it is tempered by cool southerly winds that stir the leaves of the gum trees and ruffle the feathers of the lorikeets. They are a kind of small rainbow-coloured parrot that congregates amongst the foliage in the late afternoon and dusk and make an awful racket. Beautiful though.

Stormy Summer Skies In Corinda (pt 2)

 

  

Stormy Summer Skies in Corinda

 

Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens

Various foliage , long branches snaking across. A small lizard that dropped off the branch at the last second it seems :-(

I still like the photo though, even though its subject had decided to launch itself :-P

Tugun

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Simba :-)

Brum to Brissie

The evening flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt on the 9th September 2005 was pretty depressing and nerve-wracking, but thankfully uneventful.

Frankfurt Airport was awful, customs handled my laptop like it was a basketball, and I was really really worried about missing my flight as I didn't know where to go as the announcements were loud and tinny but indistinct, but fortunately I found a nice Scottish lady who pointed me in the right direction.

I watched Downfall on the plane from Frankfurt to Singapore... pretty good film. House of Wax and Monster in Law were shite obviously but by that time I had exhausted the reserves of British comedy and needed something to send me to sleep.

The climb was fantastic, the view once we got above the clouds was awe-inspiring, I wished I could capture it, there was a thunderstorm, splitting the clouds apart, fantastic, I love storms, there have been a few here, but due to the location we only get the tail end, so the storms are rarely destructive... I was really pissed off that I missed the Himalayas, it was night time when we went over... grrr

Experienced severe turbulence over Bali, was very nervous then as it was my first flight... The rest of the flights were fine though, jet lag was bad, got hungry and tired at weird times.

Singapore Airport was nice, though very hot and humid outside and a bit daunting inside as I happened to catch sight of guards with big guns. and hearing what happens if someone plants stuff on you prior to getting searched. I didn't leave my bags for a second. they'd blow it up anyway, hehe unattended bags and all that, can't take chances.

Brief uneventful domestic flight from Sydney Airport to Brisbane Airport culminating in a case of severe luggage strap failure upon retrieval from the luggage area... I forgot such petty annoyances once I left the airport and was hit with an overwhelming blast of heat and dazzling sunshine... "I remember this, it's called 'The Sun', right?"

I'm living in Corinda, in Southeast Brisbane, about an hour's drive from the sunshine coast :) lovely weather here, so bright, and hot, (Queensland isn't called the sunshine state for nowt) and the sky is fantastic, the birds, the plants, the palm trees, everything lush and green :)

For a frame of reference, I'm staying not far from the factory where they make Castlemaine beer hehe. Brisbane people are so nice, so easygoing and helpful and relaxed, but they work hard and go the extra mile :)

From what I have observed they have great taste in music too, British stuff is very popular, I'm listening to early 90's stuff, and also jazz and classical stuff, recently discovered Dave Brubeck, and have been playing him alot on the Dj-ing gigs+events I do occasionally, I do the lighting but because I know more about classical and jazz stuff, I can suggest good tracks to the DJ. He does the sound and I do the lighting and effects stuff, and we both set up the equipment too, (lighting truss and lamps and strobe and effects pieces,  lighting laptop, external drive (full of mp3s) loads of cables, power packs, adaptors, etc ) and speakers and mixers, so, its a roadie's/rigger's job too, knackers your back sometimes...

Id love to go to New Zealand, I'm definitely going to save up and go. The mountains, valleys, forests, rivers and wildlife look great, the climate is similar to the UK I've heard, and the population is made up of little communities where everybody knows each other, like Wales... so I've been told... hehehe

Corinda

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Arrival in Corinda

Corinda, a Suburb in South-East Brisbane

An apartment in Corinda, South-East Brisbane