Maroochydore photos

[Dug]

If Newcastle get photos up then here are some of Maroochydore.

this one I took a while ago when I was in the RAAF just after WW1 about 1920

[Dug]

this one was taken last year.

I lost an 82mm polarizing filter somewhere over Kawana if anyone got hit by one it was not mine OK!!!!

[searaider]

Hi Dug ,
Top photo's both the early & resent one .
Its interesting to see how things have changed .

Peter
Searaider 2

[Fin_Addict]

Thanks for sharing the pics mate [smiley=2thumbsup.gif] What were you flying in the RAAF? Ross

[Dug]

I was not really flying in 1920 sorry;-( #I'm not quite that old.

I don't fly, I'm a photographer so I just hang out with a camera. I was usually in choppers, I spent some time working with the Canberras of #No 2 Squadron doing survey work and all sorts of other stuff.

I once hung out the back of a Caribou taking photos of an active volcano [smiley=stunned.gif]

To become old and wise you have to be young and stupid.

I'm old and I look forward becoming wise.

The new photo was shot from a Cessna 172 with the door off on the passenger side so I can get a clear view form about 7,000 ft.

[smiley=angel.gif]

[Derek Bullock]

Tell me if I'm wrong but I reckon the Cotton Tree Caravan Park is in that top pic.

Derek

[Zeeke]

sure is Derek, the mouth goes from side to side on Pincushion Island (sometimes making it completely surrounded by water) every 7yrs...buuuuuuuuut.. since they dug out a massive lake and stuffed up the system, and flooded the river with 1 massive sandbar.. i dont know what is going to happen.. maybe maroochy river will fill up with sand and become completely useless

Tim

[Dug]

One damm good cyclone season and all bets are off;-)

An engineer recently told me that the Twin waters area is the first natural overflow to the Maroochy river in a major flood. It could make an interesting wreck dive and artificial reef?

[ba229]

Great photos and a nice looking place.

Hope I haven't started something here :-)

[DICER]

No doubt it will be very interesting in a cyclone.... (now when does that occur....once every how many years????)

Dug, do you have any pictures of Mooloolabah? Or is it just a Melalucca forrest?

I was astounded by the amount of change when I drove up there just the other day after at least two years of leave.

My old pa lived in Buderim in the ~1960s so I only hear stories (but I have seen some of the fish pics :o :o :o )

great pics....ta!

DICER

[notts_so]

Would have been a wise move to buy some realastate back then and hand down a couple of generations

[Zeeke]

my mums family owned half the side of Buderim that looks over the coast.. only got something like 220,000 pounds for it...now a block of land goes for $450,000+

wish they kept it, id be a rich bastard ;) my uncle still has the family house tho

Tim

[Girella]

We've seen your boat you rich bastard.

No one else has "headlights"

[Dug]

In 1942 beach front land in Sydney was selling for $5 pounds a block if you could find someone to buy it!

A much better investment.

Dam where is my time machine? :P

[ba229]

ahhh yes but how much did a working man take home a week in 1942?

[mako_5.2]

That had something to do with the little visitors in submarines didn't it

[Zeeke]

I aint that rich :-[ infact im pretty bloody poor! :'(

Tim

[mako_5.2]

Zeeke
It is all relative to who you are comparing yourself to, Kerry Packer or some beggar on the streets in Calcutta.

[DICER]

Zeeke which side of Buderim? Was the view up the coast or straight out?

It's unbelievable what has happened to some of the old houses!

My opa's house had a great view and there was a creek off + down the side with amazing fish, freshwater prawns, eels and cicadas that would be screaming. Stunning, but gone - buldozed.

DICER

[Zeeke]

true there mako

Dicer, Wirreanda park side, going from short street area towards Mooloolaba road and down the hill.. with some areas having wide ocean views..

Tim

[Dug]

Can you claim some tribal connection with the land and claim it back perhaps?

[Zeeke]

probably, seem to be alot of black fellas named Williams around..

Tim