The view from my "office"

[JessicaTam]

Pondolowie Bay Yorke Peninsula. There is a small modern boat smashed on the shore. Not sure when it was beached.

Ah Pondie!

Magnetic Island this morning

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It looks like an attractive place.

 

[OATEK]

Cronulla beach on a beautiful, clear but cold morning.

 

[Major]

Palm Cove...not much happening

 

[Major]

Port Douglas Marina shopping centre

 

[JohnM]

Turquoise Bay.


It’s here:

 

[stoney]

Cronulla beach on a beautiful, clear but cold morning.
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I grew up on that beach, it has not changed much in 60 odd years, Beautiful memories!

 

[p--and--t]

Turquoise Bay.

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It’s here:

The resolution of the second photo not that great on my laptop, at first glance thought you promoting nude bathing

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Port Douglas Marina shopping centre

OMG ! Major is anything open ? The shopping centre looks EMPTY ! Restaurants ?

 

[TheRealTMA]

The resolution of the second photo not that great on my laptop, at first glance thought you promoting nude bathing

Once can always hope!

 

[Major]

OMG ! Major is anything open ? The shopping centre looks EMPTY ! Restaurants ?

1 restaurant at the Marina and a couple of coffee shops in the main street. There are quite a few clothing shops open but a lot more are closed. A lot of restaurants are open along The Esplanade in Cairns. Only 3 open in Palm Cove.
We saw signs for a lot more opening in July

 

[Major]

Kuranda
I would estimate 75 % of shops are closed



Barron Falls

 

[Captain Halliday]

Kuranda
I would estimate 75 % of shops are closed

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Barron Falls

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I would estimate 75% of the water is missing!

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I would estimate 75% of the water is missing!

The last time we were in Cairns, they only turned the waterfall "on" when the train went past, when we drove up in the car - it was a trickle !!

 

[Major]

The last time we were in Cairns, they only turned the waterfall "on" when the train went past, when we drove up in the car - it was a trickle !!

The train is due to start operating again tomorrow. There might be more shops open and water running

 

[RooFlyer]

Not my view, but anytime there is significant rain on Mt Wellington, behind Hobart, a depression in the ground up there fills with water. Called the 'Disappearing Tarn'. Well, Mt Wellington has had about 300mm in the past week and the tarn is back, and the word got around (its not easily accessible). Of course some twit has to go swim in it, but otherwise a beautiful, and transient thing.






Its somewhere in the middle of the skyline in this shot. brrrr!

 

[Pushka]

Kuranda
I would estimate 75 % of shops are closed

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Barron Falls

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We are booked for Cairns in August. Open up please. Sad times.

 

[drron]

I would estimate 75% of the water is missing!

I am not surprised by this.In northern Tassie most shops and restaurants have reopened as in winter it is mainly locals that frequent the these places.
On the Gold and Sunshine coasts and FNQ a large part of their business is interstate tourism in winter.

 

[kookaburra75]

Escaping Canberra for a few nights in Coogee, Sydney

 

[drron]

Actually visitors to my office.yesterday the butcher birds noticed I had returned.
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And today they were joined by a white faced heron which has no fear of us.
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We were having coffee on the patio.A couple of guests joined us.
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[JohnM]

Me and my office buddy yesterday at Ningaloo.