During 2015 Cardinal Guzman hosted a monthly challenge. The challenge was to choose one place and visit it every month to record the changes. A fascinating project. But unfortunately, last year I could not visit the same place every month because of my Gypsy wanderings.
Fast forward to 2016…
I was delighted to discover that the dear Cardinal has decided to continue his challenge but to add a version 2.
These are the rules for Version 2 (The Changing Seasons V2):
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
- Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month.
- Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
Now this year is also a year of change for me. I plan to stay, more or less, put. After 5 years of roaming far and wide around Australia, I’ll be exploring the Southeast corner of Queensland and Northern New South Wales, the place I call home. No distant travels (to a galaxy far, far away) to far-flung parts of Australia.
So yesterday I went out to search for an image that says “January on the Gold Coast”. The bigger challenge being to do it in ONE photo…
This is Burleigh Beach, my local beach, and it is the last weekend of the school summer holidays. It is hot, it is humid and the surf is pumping. Just look at the crowds, but it is still possible to find an oasis of calm with a book, a coffee and your loved one under a tropical Pandanus palm. Room for a couple of young boys to play ball and a young woman heading for the ocean to catch a wave.
In the background, just visible through the fronds of the Pandanus, the Burleigh Heads National Park keeps a majestic watch over the scene.
Thousands of years ago this was known as a favourite meeting place for the Aboriginal tribes of the area. They would gather for ceremonies and share the bounty of the sea, leaving middens of shells to tell the tale of times long gone.
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THAT is a great beach photo. And I love that it’s January! All the other January photos I’ve seen lately have four feet of snow in them. I like the concept of this challenge. Maybe I’ll join in the festivities…
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I couldn’t do the challenge last year as the rules were you had to go back to the same place each month to record the changing seasons and I was all over the place. But this year there is a version 2 which is more flexible as you can take ONE photo to capture your interpretation of were you are during that month. Now you would love that challenge. The biggest challenge for me was only using one photo!!!
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I better start thinking about this…I’m behind, eh
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Blogging always marches on and waits for no man (or woman!!!)
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I GUESS!!
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It’s a paradise, Pauline 😀
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It is Dianne, but a crowded one…
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Just a little different from what I see outside here at the moment! Not jealous*. Not at all. Of course not.
*Jealous
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Chuckle, chuckle… of course not!!!
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Being in the middle of winter here in the US, I loved your photo of the beach. It seems so crazy to me that your summer vacation months are the opposite of ours 🙂 Maybe you could send me a little of that sun and humidity.
Just to let you know, I’ve tagged you with some #GirlLove on my latest post. You can check it out here: https://ddominikwicklesromance.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/girllove-challenge/
Love your blog and have a great day!
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G’day and thanks for calling by to get some cyber sun. Thanks for the tag, but at this time I do not have time to follow on with it.
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I think your place at Burleigh Heads will be a great place to look at every month…everyone loves a beach, and yours looks very tempting….I love the couple sitting under a tree reading, that would be my dream at the moment…
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It is a lovely place very popular. I’ll look forward to showing different parts of it each month.
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Ahh, that is what sunshine looks like! ☀️ Lol! Looks beautiful there, Pauline! ❤️
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Bit too much sunshine sometimes Jill, it can get very hot through January and February.
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I feel lucky to have seen your beautiful area in person, Pauline. Looks so inviting!
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Lots of lovely places over here Jane, it was a lovely day we spent together.
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Love that you’re always up for a new challenge, Pauline. 🙂 One photo! Not sure that I could manage that 🙂 🙂
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It was hard, now I think I will have to use some of the others in another post!!!
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What a great shot. Makes me a little homesick 😭😭
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Only a short plane ride away DJ…
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Very true!!
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Hope you are having a happy Australia day
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Thanks PP, I am. We’ve been out for a walk and now I’m going to settle in my pjs with large amounts of coffee and YouTube 😊
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I don’t like a crowded beach, but i would be quite happy sitting under the palm with a book. Good photo PP. I look forward to seeing your ‘local’ area this year.
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Head north along this beach and you will get away from the crowds and have it almost to yourself. The tourists prefer to crowd here where the life guards patrol and all the cafes and restaurants are
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Same at Dee Why, walk a few hundred yards away from the cafes and it is practically empty. No shade though.
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and no life savers, but that wouldn’t worry me as I NEVER go in the ocean.
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Me neither, not now.
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It’s too busy for me but I’d be happy to people watch for a while!
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I could take you just a couple of kilometres down this same beach and it is almost deserted. Well away from the madding crowd.
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Great! It’s gloomy outside here, but bright indoors with your picture on my screen!
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Pleased to hear it lit up your day Sue.
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😊
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Your beach looks so like Durban in December/January summer holidays. 🙂
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Do you miss your old home Sylvia?
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Yes of course I do, but I’m glad we’re now out of South Africa with the way things are going there. You can’t have it all ways, and we have made so many new friends here. We can always go back and visit for a few weeks. 😃
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How wonderful to be in such a sunny climate. I like the sound of the monthly challenge so I will check it out! Thanks for the tip.
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Being a monthly one it is not such a strain as the weekly challenges can be.
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What a wonderful place to have as your ‘local’ beach😎. This is such a happy scene and I really enjoyed your description which drew me right in, especially after I enlarged it on my screen. I’d be looking to park myself under a shady tree with a book.
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A great place for people watching, and many photo ops. It was very hard for me just to post one photo, and hard to choose which one to use for this post. But I liked the variety of action in this shot.
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Me too – so much going on!
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Wow! I’d love to spend my January like that!!
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Me too!
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Bit hot in the middle of the day, but lovely early morning or late afternoon, not so many crowds at those times of the day. Thank you for coming up with this challenge CG I am going to enjoy it.
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