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Beach Notes: Camel Rides

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by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh

Camel rides were a popular feature of the kite festival at local Kirra Beach, Queensland, last weekend. In the 19th century thousands of camels were imported to Australia to help with the colonization of less hospitable parts of the country, mainly in central and northern Australia. Then with the arrival of motor transportation, the camels were released into the wild.

They multiplied. So the very accommodating and apparently docile animals in the picture have a great many wilder cousins in Australian central desert regions. An interesting factoid for a trivia quiz is that, with over one million camels now roving free – and estimated to double every nine years – Australia has the largest feral camel population in the world.

Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh

Beach Notes: Don’t Wait for Perfect!

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by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh

The state of Queensland, in which this picture was taken, has a tourism-attracting slogan describing it as “beautiful one day, perfect the next”.

Nice slogan, but there are cloudy days and even here at the world-famous Snapper Rocks break, sometime there are not many waves to speak of.

But these keen surfers were not put off by either the cloudy sky or the lack of big waves.

Are you waiting for cloudless skies and a perfect swell for your business to take off?

Every day is perfect for business.

Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh

Beach Notes: What’s Missing Here?

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by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh

In life some things are better in pairs like shoes, earrings, and gloves. Also “lifeguard on duty” red and yellow flags.

In Australia, the area between two of these flags is the safe area for swimming as it is patrolled by lifeguards. One flag alone does not show the safe “swim between the flags” area that the lifeguard sets each day at the beach.
Is there something in your life that needs a pair?

Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh

Beach Notes: Are You Creating and Seeing?

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by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh

“5 White Shore Birds” by Adriaan Vanderlugt, 2009: beachside park, Rainbow Bay, Gold Coast, Australia – public sculpture courtesy of Gold Coast City Council.

This work reminds me every time I see it of what delight can be provided by a combination of creative imagination and skill with materials. When you look at the pieces in this composition up close, they are basically a set of bent and twisted square metal rods with a small flat metal piece bolted on at the tip of each. When you stand back and allow your imagination to take over, they are birds. Magic!

What magic are you creating, or seeing, today?.

Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh