#Gold Coast Hinterland

[biologistellie]

morning walks at homee 🌿

[oceaniatropics]

Curtis falls, Queensland, Australia 

[phattravellers]

Checking out Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk and Curtis Falls | Gold Coast ...

[wenbochenphoto]

I am so lucky to have this as my backyard, can never get tired of living here. The vegetation here are Gondwana rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest in the valleys and cloud forest on the distant plateau.

[bigvolcano]

SCHOOL HOLIDAY SURVIVAL SKILLS (SUMMER EDITION)

Do the kids go a little wild over the School holidays? Send them our way ... to spend time in the bush reconnecting with nature while having a heap of fun, learning new skills and having an awesome ADVENTURE.

Mon 8th January 2024 – Wed 10th January 2024, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM 3034 Kyogle Rd, Kunghur NSW 2484 Do the kids go a little wild over the School holidays? Send them our way to WILD 1, WILD 2 and the new WILD 3. Your kids get to spend time in the bush reconnecting with nature while having a heap of fun, learning new skills and having an awesome ADVENTURE! Wild 1 – Monday 8th January Wild 2 –…

[paulsautomotive]

So, before contact with Vehicle maintenance and servicing in gold coast, read below!

[fatehbaz]

They’ve built a “Great Wheel” on the Seattle waterfront [...].

The small timber village became a military outpost in the Puget Sound War [...], [and] soon evolved into a trade gateway, with timber tailings and other industrial trash from Henry Yesler’s mill used to fill in the marshlands [...], atop which migrant laborers raised tents and shanties [...] now working to feed raw materials into the furnaces of the Second Industrial Revolution burning in the East. [...] The first nationwide strike ripped across the country’s railways in 1877, but in Seattle the unrest took on a grim character, as thousands of unemployed white workers rioted against their Chinese counterparts [...]. Meanwhile, [...] local elites rebuilt [...] downtown [...] from scratch, hosting the tallest building on the West Coast alongside other new constructs [fueled] with money gleaned from the supply chains linking eastern capital to Alaskan gold. [...] Today the city - again rebuilt [...] - is seen as one of the primary beneficiaries of the “Fifth” Industrial Revolution in information technology, outshone only by California’s Silicon Valley. [...] The digital was increasingly thought of as somehow "immaterial," sustained by intellectual labor more than physical toil [...].

Silicon Valley myths of [...] "immaterial" labor disguise a more gruesome dynamic in which growing segments of the global labor force are being deprived even of the basic brutality of the wage, instead forced out into growing rings of slums, prisons, and global wastelands. [...]

---

Perched alongside a downtown business corridor [...], Seattle's Great Wheel seems to peer out over [...] [the] prophesied “cooperative commons,” an infotech metropolis abutting the beauty of an evergreen arcadia. But travel below Seattle’s cluster of infotech industries and the image appears much the same as that of a hundred years prior - a trade gateway, squeezing value from supply chains by selling transport and logistical support. The southern stretch of the metropolis bears little resemblance to the revitalized urban core of the city proper. Instead of the “cognitive labor” of Microsoft, it is defined instead by the cold calculation of companies like UPS, founded in Seattle when the city was one link in a colonial supply chain built first for timber, then Alaskan gold, then World War. [...]

In south Seattle, this logistics empire takes the form of faceless warehouses, food processing facilities, container trucks, rail yards, and industrial parks concentrated between two seaports, an international airport, three major interstates, and railroads traveling in all directions. Meanwhile, the poor have been priced out of the old inner city, moving southward [...]. [T]hey can be found staffing the airport and the rail yards, hauling cargo in and out of two the major seaports, loading boxes in warehouses [...]. And, beyond them, the shadow stretches out to Washington’s rural hinterlands where migrant laborers staff a new boom in agriculture and raw materials [...] - and further still into America’s long-depressed interior, where the Great Wheel meets its opposite: Memphis, the FedEx logistics city, watched over by a great black pyramid [the infamous Bass Pro Shop pyramid]. [...]

Every Seattle is capable of creating an eco-friendly, “cooperative commonwealth” tended by apps and algorithms only insofar as there is a Memphis that can provide human workers to sort the packages, a Shanghai to build the containers that carry them, and a Shenzhen to solder together the circuits of the machines that govern it all.

---

All text above by: Phil A. Neel. "The Great Wheel". Brooklyn Rail. April 2015. Published online at: brooklynrail.org/2015/04/field-notes/the-great-wheel. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, personal use, criticism purposes.]

[mindblowingscience]

A researcher from The University of Queensland has discovered a remarkable new genus of fluffy longhorn beetle while camping within a rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland. The freshly named Excastra albopilosa was found by School of the Environment Ph.D. candidate James Tweed, who nearly mistook the beetle for bird droppings. A paper on the discovery has been published in the Australian Journal of Taxonomy. "I was walking through the campsite at Binna Burra Lodge one morning and something on a Lomandra leaf caught my eye," Tweed said. "To my amazement, I saw the most extraordinary and fluffiest longhorn beetle I had ever seen. "Measuring 9.7 millimeters, it was a striking red and black beauty covered in long white hairs."

Continue Reading.

[famousinuniverse]

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia: The Gold Coast, often referred to by its initials G.C., is a city in Queensland, Australia. It is Australia’s sixth-largest city, the most populous non-capital city, and the state's second-largest city after Brisbane. The Gold Coast is a coastal city. The Gold Coast is a major tourist destination with a sunny, subtropical climate and has become widely known for its surfing beaches (such as Surfers Paradise), high-rise dominated skyline, theme parks, nightlife, and rainforest hinterland. Wikipedia

[busyreadingerotica]

Sunset over the Gold Coast hinterland from the 75th floor.

[babelovesjosephine]

To the 2012's of Hinterland, you're the Man, thanks for looking after the Feld, Oh to Hell with it, I'm sure your love to her you've Yeild, how's it going with the wood, is he Cool does he do well in the pool in those beautiful Gold Coast sheds, some love I've lost NOW GET TOSSED.

❤️❤️❤️

❣️❣️❣️

💯

[jargonautical]

The Devil of Alfriscombe

EVERY HUNDRED YEARS, the legend goes, the Devil goes down to Alfriscombe. 

Why? The legend is a little hazy on the details. Perhaps he has a fondness for the place. Perhaps, as some wit suggested, Beelzebub likes his day at the seaside as much as the next man. Other, darker rumours suggest he comes by to collect what’s owed by the Vernon family after a disastrous wager made long ago. 

Either way, stories and sightings abound. A tall man dressed all in black with coal for eyes, he roams the town greeting people by name that he’s never met, asking questions about things that nobody should know. If he’s satisfied with the answers he goes away again after spending his gold freely. If things aren’t going so well, somehow they start going better. Rents fall and wages rise, families fallen on hard times receive an unexpected windfall or run of good luck. 

Not the Vernons of course, since the last one with any ties to the place drank himself to death in a debtor’s prison hundreds of years ago. No, the Devil’s regard (if that’s what it is) flows entirely to the common folk of the town.

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

And there are plenty of those. 

Imagine every stereotype from any seaside town that you can remember, all rolled into one, and you’ll have a fair mental image of Alfriscombe. Buckets and spades, beach cricket sets in net bags, and racks upon racks of cheap plastic flip-flops in every colour. Twenty-three flavours of ice cream between seven ice cream parlours, four fish and chip shops with identical stern warning signs about not feeding the seagulls, sweetshops and tat shops and ugly souvenir shops with yellowing cellophane shielding the windows from the sun’s bleaching rays. The place has barely changed in the last sixty years, and why should it? Sun, sea and sand; a winning formula that needs no updating, as the thousands of visitors who flood the town every summer can testify. 

The town sits on the south coast, a middling-small settlement nestled in a fold of the hills sloping down to the sea. A sheltered natural harbour attracted humans to make their home there since before history began, a tiny fishing hamlet of the same name even getting a passing mention in the Domesday Book. The present-day town is considerably larger of course, spreading its skirts over the years to absorb a handful of villages inland and down the coast to the west. Back in the day this was a hotspot for quackery, fraud and pseudoscience, new money flocking here to take the waters or breathe the air as a cure for whatever ailed you. 

All of their grand houses are now hotels, dental surgeries, nursing homes painted in tasteful variations on off-white and cream. All except one, you’ll see it if you come in by train; one single subversive soul who rejected the tyranny of beige and opted instead for a vibrant Mediterranean sky-blue. It looks joyously awful against its more refined neighbours, a football shirt at a wedding, but it stands out. 

Alfriscombe isn’t overly fond of things that stand out, nor things that change, still clinging to the image of the perfect family resort from sometime in the 1950s. The town’s steady decline into obscurity is a direct result. It’s neither old-fashioned enough to be quaint, nor modern enough to be vibrant. Not big enough to be lively and not small enough to be peaceful, designated ‘urban’ only by contrast to the rural hinterland it’s surrounded by. Unless something more exciting than the bi-annual waste management conference happens here one of these days it’ll remain forever stuck in a bland no man’s land. 

[oceaniatropics]

Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia

[q8q]

Chalahn Falls

Gold Coast Hinterland - Lamington National Park.

[bigvolcano]

160 trees planted for koalas at Uki

20 November 2023 Koalas at Uki have more of a chance of survival thanks to 160 koala habitat trees recently planted at the newly-opened Uki Mountain Bike Park, thanks to students from Bilambil Public School and local organisation Saving Our Koalas. The students raised $1,300 for koala food trees by making tie-dyed shopping bags out of second-hand bed sheets. The school kids not only provided…

[paulsautomotive]

Since this is an investment that can be expensive, it would be much wiser to have the vehicle checked before making your decision. Here is the importance of carryout Car roadworthy services in Gold Coast before buying a used car.