New World Rhythm Choir

A wonderful way to spend a day completing the year of 2019, listening to a beautiful choir at the Woodford Folk Festival.

Tree Vigil

The view north from Noosa Heads toward Double Island Point. An old tree stands vigil on the rocks, weathering whatever comes its way.

Pacific Dreaming

This is a view of the majestic and enormous Pacific Ocean as seen from Noosa Heads. The horizon leads to so many destinations across the world, that I can't help but dream of adventures that are possible.

Noosa View

A beautiful view of Noosa from the top of Mount Tinbeerwah. This might be one of my favourite shots of 2019.

Tinbeerwah Climbing Anchors

The climbing anchors at Mount Tinbeerwah between Cooroy and Noosa.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone and hope your close to 2019 is fitting for the end of a decade.

Deck Of Wood

An early Christmas present to myself, a deck and deck chairs to enjoy the outdoor space.

Old Pacific Highway

The old Avenue of Ficus Trees still exists at the old turn off into Byron Bay from what used to be the Old Pacific Highway.

Lights Time

The Christmas Lights are now up just in time for Christmas.

Tree Is Up

The tiny LEGO Christmas Tree is up in the Tiny House.

Lego Bouldering Wall

A Lego Character goes bouldering on a small wall.

USC Octopus

A more complete view of the USC Big Octopus at the Solar Nights exhibit. Do Electric octopus dream of electric jellyfish? Do octopus even eat jellyfish? This raises more questions than you can poke a stick at.

Field Of Jellyfish

This large field of jellyfish was quite impressive to see. Which made me wonder, do electric jellyfish in fields have a field of dreams?

The Big Beach Chair

Australia has a soft spot for Big Things. And here at USC on the Solar Nights exhibit, The Big Beach Chair was on display.

Solar Nights

The University of the Sunshine Coast has a Solar Nights exhibit running for the next few days (and it's free). This was a close up of what I'm calling the Big Octopus.

Cartwright View

A view of Point Cartwright on a calm morning at the rim of the Pacific Ocean.

Mudjimba

Mudjimba and Coolum in the hazy distance on a still morning by the sea.

Morning Beach View

A morning view of Maroochydore from Alexandra Headland.

Car Park

The carpark at Alexandra Headland on a quiet morning.

Flowering Frangipani

The always spectacular Frangipani flowers.

Flying Kangaroo

The Flying Kangaroo on the engine of my ride back to Brisbane from Longreach. A Dash-8 De Havilland turboprop.

Boeing 747

The QANTAS Boeing 747 at Longreach. A sight you cannot miss as you arrive in town.

QANTAS Founders

The QANTAS Founders Museum entry sign at Longreach.

Winton Jump-Up

The final destination for my trip was the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Jump-Up near Winton. This very new Camry got me there and back from Longreach.

Longreach Airport

My first visit to the new terminal at Longreach Airport.

Barcaldine Solar

As we climbed higher on the way to Longreach, Barcaldine's Solar Power Farm came into view.

Barcaldine Golf Links

Flying out of Barcaldine I got a view of the local golf course below.

Top Rope Solo

Have been trying out some top rope solo techniques at Ngungun. This was on Owl Pillar, a nice little over vertical section with some good fun climbing.

Ngungun Car Park

When I arrived this morning to do some climbing at Ngungun there were cars all the way up past the white Subaru. The most overflowing I have ever seen the carpark here. It is a popular spot, and with good reason, the climbing is great and varied and there's a great walk with a beautiful view at the top.

Quickdraws

My first rack of quickdraws to get into some sport climbing.

BF Goodrich Tyre

This tyre must have seen all six of its landings as the plys are certainly worn from use. Who knew that BF Goodrich tyres had a history of aviation? Apparently it all started with the first tyre supplied to the Model A Ford and then the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic Crossing by Charles Lindbergh, then naturally, the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. A real all terrain tyre.

228 Knots 34 Ply 6 Landings

Some pretty amazing specs on these tyres for the Space Shuttle. 228 Knots is around 440km/hr, that's fast, no wonder so many plys are needed to hold the tyre together.

Frangible Nuts

These nuts and bolts are what hold the Space Shuttle to the launch pad until the engines and boosters have ignited. Once the thrust is ramped up, the explosives are triggered and the nuts fracture allowing the shuttle to be released for launch.

Memory, What Memory?

This is a photo of the Memory Module used on the Saturn V launch rocket. The module on the left has 14 of the memory 'array chips' on the right. The thing is, each of those ferrite core wire arrays only has 1024 bits of memory available. That's just one kilobyte - and it's about the size of my phone. Technology has come a long way in just 50 years, imagine what the next 50 will bring.

The Eagle Landed

The Apollo 11 Eagle Landing Site in panorama with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin doing their thing, on the Moon.

Level One And A Half

Somebody at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane has a sense of humour with their floor numbering.

Brisbane Panorama

A panoramic view of the Brisbane River and Southbank from the Victoria Bridge.

Grinding Grooves

The Grinding Grooves on the old Landsborough formation at Little Rocky Creek.

Little Rocky Creek

The Grinding Grooves Indigenous site at Little Rocky Creek, Landsborough.

Paper Beats Rock

In a real life struggle for dominance in the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, it is clear that paper really does beat rock as this example shows. This is at Little Rocky Creek near Landsborough.

Kookaburra

One thing about living in a tiny home is how close you can get to nature. This kookaburra was sitting just outside my bathroom window barely a metre away.

Apollo Fuel Cell

A view of the entire Hydrogen Fuel Cell used on the Apollo Spacecraft.

NASA Fuel Cell

A hydrogen fuel cell used on the Apollo spacecraft, produced by United Aircraft Corporation for NASA.

Space Poop

A model of the toilet on the Space Shuttle on display at the Queensland Museum. I can imagine the things going around an astronaut's head when they use this facility, "That's one small poop for man, one giant poop for mankind."

New York Times 1969

The New York Times Newspaper, early and late editions of the Moon Landing in 1969.

Courier Mail Headline

The Courier Mail from the 22nd of July 1969 after Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon.

Man On The Moon

I went to the Queensland Museum and all I got was this photo of a famous photo of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, taken by Neil Armstrong, taken by me.

Moon Landing 50 Years

The 50th Anniversary of the NASA Moon Landing, an exhibition at the Queensland Museum. Definitely worth a visit if you can make it to Brisbane before the exhibition closes on the 9th of October.

Volcanic Chain

A collection of individual Glasshouse Mountains. A mountain group perhaps, or a chain of volcanic plugs and intrusions.

Mount Coonowrin

An scarcely seen view of Mount Coonowrin from the western summit of the Coochin Twins.