Progress as of Jan 27, 2017 on the construction and installation of the 15 megawatt Sunshine Coast Solar Farm at Valdora, with Mount Coolum in the background.
Sunshine Coast Solar Farm 2AM-000023 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Sunshine Coast Solar Farm 2AM-000018 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
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The Kings Beach beachfront salt water pool, and water fountains (very popular with the children), as viewed from above during first-light at Caloundra – on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.
Kings Beach 2AM-000446 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Kings Beach 2AM-000449 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Kings Beach 2AM-000457 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
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Point Cartwright greets another glorious Sunshine Coast morning.
Point Cartwright 2AM-000075. ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
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These aerial (drone) scenes include Kings Beach, Wickham Headland, Shelly Beach, Moffat Headland, Pumicestone Passage, Bribie Island, the Glasshouse Mountains (in the background), and Caloundra – on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.
Kings Beach 2AM 0424-0425 panorama stitch ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
The sea-sawdust slicks on the water surface in the following images is likely Trichodesmium sp. – a cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), and is also called whale food, sea scum and, incorrectly, whale sperm. Found in nutrient-poor tropical and subtropical ocean waters, Trichodesmium are ‘nitrogen fixers’- they can take nitrogen gas from the air and ‘fix’ it in a form that can be transferred through the food chain. This function is very important as Nitrogen is essential to life and while there is an abundance of it in the air (air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen), most plants and animals can’t make use of it in that form.
Wickham Point 2AM 0434-0437 panorama stitch ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Trichodesmium 2AM-000408 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Trichodesmium 2AM-000419 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Trichodesmium 2AM-000422 ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
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Aerial images of Windang and the mouth of Lake Illawarra, NSW.
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Aerial and terrestrial images of Cabarita Beach, Norries Head, Hastings Point, and Cudgera Creek – on the Tweed Coast of NSW.
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Hastings Point, NSW – where Cudgera Creek enters the sea after it’s sinuous meander.
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Humpback Sunrise 2AM-007774
Maggies Beach 2AM 3413-3414 Panorama
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Norries Head 2AM 262-263 Panorama
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The impressive Belmore Falls, in good flow. These falls are in Morton National Park, very near the town of Robertson in the Southern Highlands region of NSW.
The Belmore Falls is a plunge waterfall with three drops on the Barrengarry Creek in the Southern Highlands and Illawarra regions of New South Wales.
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Some images from Austinmer in the northern Illawarra area of New South Wales, Australia.
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A very powerful weather system is impacting a considerable portion of the east coast of Australia this weekend. Here is the Bureau of Meteorology link and the ABC link.
Here are three images: the first is an aerial image (drone) at Scarborough showing clear weather conditions before the system began to directly impact this section of the Illawarra Coast, and the remaining two images from Bald Hill show the first wave of weather making its way to the coast.
Scarborough-2AM-0014. ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Bald Hill 2AM 2771-2772 Panorama. ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Bald Hill 2AM-002769. ©Andrew McInnes. All Rights Reserved.
Here’s to hoping the farmers and graziers get good rain where needed.
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