Must be school holidays again

 

 

 

The beaches are crowded again. It must be school holidays! This was Cotton Tree at sunset today.

Choice Coastal Cafes #10: The Old Court House (aka Urban Garden)

 

 

 

 

We've been meaning to check this one out for a while, but it's been hard to find a nearby parking spot!

Probably not just for the cafe, but it's at the busy Maroochydore end of Cotton Tree, and it often seems to be full of lawyers, police officers, and hapless victims of the justice system!

It was worth the wait though. It's an interesting place. It's just along the road from the new law courts and the very big police headquarters. And more to the point, the coffee was good,and the breakfast toast was cheap (though you had to toast it yourself).

 

We'll be back!

Looks like a tourist

Not sure it did really, at least not most of the tourists we get here on the Sunshine Coast. Maybe it was designed as comment about Western tourists in third world holiday places.

I came across it at Cotton Tree this evening. 'Looks like a tourist' was part of the Horizon Festival, currently being played out in Cotton Tree and elsewhere on the Coast. It's 'a visual spectacle that saturates the landscape bringing our attention to the complexities of being a visitor in a new place'.

 

 

 

 

 

And then they went home.... 

More on the festival: www.horizonfestival.com.au

Choice Coastal Cafes #9: Envy

 

 

 

 

It's called Envy, and I'm a little envious of those who discovered it before me. I only got there today, and it's all very healthy. But tasty too. It's one of many still-to-be-exploreds along Cotton Tree's Esplanade.

More Maroochydore red

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cotton Tree actually, near the Boat Shed restaurant. Yet another red sunset, courtesy of that Tongan volcano.

Paddling in at Cotton Tree

 

I caught the end of a paddleboard race at Cotton Tree yesterday morning. They'd been doing laps of a course that seemed to stretch between there and maybe Picnic Point or Chambers Island. It looked exhausting anyway.