HNT and other Sunny Piccies

In order to ensure that 'The Great And Powerful Os' doesn't put a karma destroying hex on me, I am getting my Half Nekkid Thursday post up with at least five hours to spare!

HNT this week uses a fairly common photographic technique employed by many an HNTer. Aim a digi camera at your own feet. Note my clever use of a prop, The Pacific Ocean, which was a most pleasing temperature at the time. Scroll down for more beachy photos.



Noosa is a fairly busy place a couple of hours north of Brisbane. We spent a day up there strolling on this beach, cruising the shops on Hastings Street and people watching from a streetside trattoria over lunch and a chianti.









South West of Noosa, near Nambour is "The Big Pineapple", which was a source of much fascination to me as a child. Australia seems to have a disturbing number of tourist attractions along this theme. The Big Banana, The Big Merino, The Big Trout, The Big Mower, The Big Cheese, etc. etc.



I promised pictures of Nemo and I don't like to disappoint. I found him in a shop, shrinkwrapped, but he seems happy enough.



Drove back to Brisbane via the coast, and found ourselves on Castaways beach, which goes on for about 16 kilometres, we were about half way along, and the photos below show us looking left, looking right, and then taking our own picture.







Inland a little are The Glass House Mountains. So named because they reminded Captain James Cook of glass houses he had seen in England. Obviously he had spent too long at sea. The aboriginal names for each mountain are far more spectacular. M and I want the house in this picture. The photo doesn't do the view justice.



Just behind me when I took the above photo was a rainforest where we did a bit of walking. Below was taken late in the afternoon so is a bit dark.



Spent a day wandering around Brisbane as well. There is a speccie fig tree growing in the centre of town.



For a city near the coast, with some of the worlds best beaches within reach it was a little comical to find a man-made one in the middle of the town, a stone's throw from office blocks and carparks.



Brisbane's Story Bridge.