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FROM THE EDITOR

CONTRIBUTing TALENTS: WHAT ARE YOUR THREE musts FOR SUMMER?

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Nick Rains COVER PHOTOGRAPHER

I have been a professional photographer for 30 years.

I have covered a lot of ground in photography and in addition to my commissioned work for Australian Geographic and other publishers, I also am the principal instructor at Leica Akademie Australia. nickrains.com

What are your rites and rituals around summer? What are the deeds and endeavours that scream heat and holidays, sun and surf? Which practices are memory-making musts?

Summer to me means performing the hot sand trot. It means attacking the first season mango until a pulp-less, sinewy seed remains. It means having fingers that smell of the sea after shelling prawns around a table encircled with dearest friends and family.

It involves bobbing in the bathwater-temperature resort pool to wash the briny sea from your skin. The best of days include afternoon siestas beneath a rattling ceiling fan in sand-laced sheets.

It is likely to include the accidental exposure of private body parts thanks to the odd rogue, out-of-hand wave. I hope by summer’s end this has been a relatively rare event.

Our summer salt edition is basted in sunscreen, sprinkled in sand and soaked in salt water to encapsulate a glorious Sunshine Coast summer.

With our beautiful cover image swathed in citrus colours of lemon and lime, it’s a zesty beginning to what we believe is a spectacular issue.

Over the past couple of months I’ve witnessed first-hand how precious and brief life can be. With that in mind, keep your family and friends within hugging and cheek-kissing distance this summer season.

And from all the salt team, we hope you etch out some magical memories under the twinkling, sun-bleached canopy that is the Sunshine Coast.

Until next time,

THANKS GO TO OUR Other contributING TALENTS TOO: ANGUS JOHNS PUBLISHER KARINA EASTWAY EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING JANE FYNES-CLINTON SUB-EDITOR, COLUMNIST ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS PHOTOGRAPHER ALEX FYNES-CLINTON writer CELESTE MITCHELL writer CASSY SMALL writer TYSON STELZER wINE Writer NIKE SULWAY writer For those who have been stealing a copy of salt magazine from their SALLY TRUDE FOOD WRITER favourite eatery, or scrounging the Sunshine Coast for the latest edition Jane Todd proofreader

BRISEIS ONFRAY DESIGNER

1. Load a beach bag with swimwear, hat-of-the moment, Turkish cotton towel/wrap and a new batch of quality suncare.

2. Fill the fridge with plenty of coconut water and all the ingredients to make a fave summer cocktail.

3. Prepare a playlist with a fresh selection of summer-loving tunes.

AARON WYNNE WRITER

1. Always wear plenty of zinc when surfing. No one likes a peeling nose.

2. Revel in long Sunday afternoon lunches.

3. Never, ever miss the Boxing Day cricket test.

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1. Light mosquito coils daily before dusk and leave burning throughout the night to ensure permanent lingering scent.

2. Talk about the humidity as much as possible.

3. Have cricket on TV at all times, even if you don’t like cricket.

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it’s a wrap The image was captured in 2005 off Sunshine Beach, Noosa with a Canon 5D Mark II at 100 ISO, focal length 135mm, 1/1000 f/4.

in the LimeLigHt 6 pedal powered The Sunshine Coast is a cyclist’s dream. You just have to know where to pedal your pushie.

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art to eat Three creative Sunshine Coast sisters have created a cookbook that has caused an international stir.

Photo Megan Cullen

is born of the purest parents, the sun & thepythagoras sea.

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pursuit of passion Lisa Mills has innovative ways of helping children find their voice.

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for a cause Smart Pups on the Sunshine Coast is changing the lives of children with special needs by pairing them with extraordinary dogs.

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books & blogs Our pick of the best new releases to pass the lazy summer holidays.

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bold visionaries Tani Klein’s charming Doodlebugs are making an indelible mark.

106 ARTIST Roger Lane has had a strange, complex relationship with horses.

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OFF THE WALL Philip Ayres takes photos that capture more than just what the eye can see.

112 art DATES The Sunshine Coast has some of the best art galleries in the world. Find out what will be on show, where in summer.

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art SPACE salt’s very own gallery space, featuring some of the finest artworks on the coast.

Lovestruck 60 Keeping it real Jacqui and Luke Humble share their very personal story.

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40 table talk Noosa Beach House head chef Peter Kuruvita has cooked in the world’s most salubrious locations.

For better or FOR worse Ossie and Lurline Apps have been married for 69 years and have shared a lifetime of love.

To have and to hold Fashionable, must-have products for the loved up.

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NOSH NEWS Snippets from the industry that gives us food, glorious food.

72 Magic maker A design wizard makes brides’ dreams come true.

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PRODUCE PEOPLE Adopt a Beehive organiser Paula West is passionate about brilliant, essential, fragile bees.

Living & Lifestyle 118 IN your dreams

Stephanie and Bryan McLennan’s Montville home is a little house with a big heart.

50 culinary creations Wild Rocket @ Misty’s chef Peter Brettell shares a treasured recipe.

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124 homewares Citrus offers fresh colour bursts this season.

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126 Crafty creations How to recover a drop seat step by step.

52 relaxed recipes Honey is a delicious, adaptable ingredient.

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salt cellar Wine writer Tyson Stelzer explores the re-emergence of rose champagne.

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meet the designer Potter Elke Lucas shares her passion for ceramics, and what brought her to the Sunshine Coast.

12 6 senses A selection of items based on the special powers that we humans use to experience the world – touch, see, hear, smell, taste and feel.

132 GREAT OUTDOORS salt’s own Karina Eastway learns the flying art of the trapeze.

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fashion & beauty

secrets Get authentic information on the best things about the Sunshine Coast from the only people who really know – the locals.

22 calendar of events salt has hand picked a variety of events on the Sunshine Coast that are guaranteed to please throughout summer.

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fashion A sensational spread of the must-have styles for summer.

98 beauty Beautiful products

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look at me Surfing writer Phil Jarratt has had an extraordinary career in journalism.

to help deal with the sun’s firm summer kisses.

100 PAMPER & PREEN Sweet treatments at Asante Spa, Coolum Beach, were bliss for brows and legs.

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A DOSE OF SALT Columnist Jane Fynes-Clinton explores our passion for pets.

102 cut & dry smyths inc is more than just a hairdresser.

104 health Dr Bob Jacobs helps parents with the world’s toughest job.

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134 tourist information Essential info for all visitors to the coast, including travel times, surf safety and market details.

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words ALEX FYNES-CLINTON PHOTOS ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS

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The Sunshine Coast was built for cycling – just ask any of the region’s diverse and dedicated riding fraternity.

Whether bombing across wild and wily terrain in the hinterland’s many parks and forests, pounding the pedals on the road by a slice of beachside bliss or simply enjoying a coffee with friends whilst clad in Lycra – the pleasures of the region’s rich and spirited clubs are many. With summer here and the sun shining bright, now is the time to find out just how thrilling life on two wheels can be.

Off the beaten track Frequenting some of the Sunshine Coast’s roughest terrain, cross-country mountain bikers have an insatiable appetite for conquering the great outdoors.

Riders take on hills, valleys, mud, sand and everything in between through a range of fixed circuits, seeing parts of the region few have ever ventured into. The riding community is small but fast growing, with devoted groups ready to pass on their wisdom to anyone wanting to test themselves on the coast’s rugged bush tracks.

Bushrangers Mountain Biking Club (BMBC) member Adrian Randall says the serenity out on a ride is something to behold.

“The drudgery of day-to-day work is gone when you’re out on the bike – it’s quiet and it’s peaceful,” he says. “If it’s been raining the smell of the forest is just amazing. You just concentrate on where you’re riding, hear the birds and smell the scents that are there to be appreciated.

“If you’re office bound it’s something money can’t buy. You daydream about it at work.”

Whilst some choose to pursue the sport competitively, many mountain bikers are involved solely to enjoy the purity of a ride. However, winding bush paths, uneven terrain and demanding fitness requirements can make the sport risky for the inexperienced.

Adrian says BMBC aim to break down the barriers for beginners and offer new and exciting challenges to veterans.

“A lot of the trails around the place are not awfully well signposted, so a lot of people get out there and get a bit lost and frustrated,” he says. “Joining a club takes a lot of the guesswork away. It’s a lot about people learning where the trails are, learning the skills – including how to repair their bikes out on the trails – and learning how to stay safe. We have a lot of social rides, which are a good place to start, and also take on tougher trails and organise night rides for more experienced riders.” >

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Adrian Randall’s picks for mountain biking The bike: “My tip is look at the frame. I bought an entry-level bike years ago that had a great frame and average components. As I got better I replaced them with better parts. If you buy a bike that’s heavy in the frame, you’re stuck with it. You’re looking at anything from $600 up for a bike, depending on your needs. For those who want a taste of the sport, Have Fun mountain bike tours will hire bikes.”

Protective equipment and accessories: “To start out you need a good backpack, water bottles and a decent helmet. The guys in the bike shops will fit you up and explain what you’re getting for your money.”

You’ll also need plenty of food for energy as you can be out there for hours at a time – sandwiches, fruit and muesli bars are always popular.

Best ride: “The easiest track for starters is one at Ewen Maddock Dam. There’s a decent car park, a kids’ playground and a map of the track at the front. You can’t really get lost, which is great for beginners. It can get a little sandy and be difficult when it’s wet, but it’s a good ride. There are hills to take on, but you can bypass them if you’d prefer. You follow the lake around and go through a lot of bush. It’s around 10km to the end and 10km back.”

Hit the road, Jack When most people think cycling they picture competitive road racers – seat up, sunglasses on and legs circling at a mile a minute.

As the most commonly pursued form of the sport, it’s no surprise the coast has a strong group of devoted and enthusiastic riders flying the flag. Sunshine Coast Cycling Club (SCCC) publicity officer Craig King says time flies when you’re out on the wide open road.

“On the Sunshine Coast you don’t have to go too far to get away to roads with fantastic country views,” he says. “Some days we’ll go out for a few hours and it’s hard to believe you can pass the time sitting on the bike. You just keep turning your legs around in circles, having a chat with friends and enjoying the ride.”

Road cycling is a sport perfect for those looking for fun, fitness and a healthy sense of competition. SCCC members train regularly all over the coast and the club organises a range of races for people to test themselves against their fellow club members.

With hills and tough terrain playing havoc, riders can expect a unique fitness challenge out on the trails. Adrian says people should prepare to push themselves mentally and physically.

“I’ve been on rides with extremely good road bikers and they’re absolutely shot to pieces after a few kilometres,” he says. “There’s a real technical aspect to the sport. There is a lot of riding up hills, so you’ve got to have the stubbornness to keep pushing through.

“It’s nice to be around people in the club who are healthy and likeminded. If you send out a text looking for a ride, there’s always somebody keen to join you.”

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Craig says people who train regularly will surprise themselves at how quickly their fitness and general wellbeing improves.

“To really push yourself, you’re looking at four days a week training with each session clocking in at around an hour and a half,” he says. “We train on a variety of terrain and mix up the sessions a lot. For the average person coming in, just joining the group and training regularly is really going to progress you quickly.

“Within the club we run A down to E grades, with D and E grades suited to the people who are really new to cycling. There’s a group suited to every level.”

Racing takes place all over the Sunshine Coast, giving club members a chance to measure their success and meet other like-minded riders over a coffee afterwards.

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Craig King’s recommendations for road riders The bike: “In the last couple of years, bikes have become cheaper. An entry-level bike at $1500 will get you a machine that’s a good standard to ride – crisp gears, good brakes and nice and light. Local specialty stores will provide the best advice.”

Protective equipment and accessories: “Comfortable clothing made especially for cyclists is an absolute must. It makes riding so much more enjoyable. Helmets are an obvious buy and good ones are getting around for $100. Cycling shoes are something people can be intimidated with at first, but will really improve your riding experience. All up, around $2000 for bike and extras will get you out there enjoying yourself.”

Best ride: “The best ride on the Sunshine Coast is from Twin Waters up to Noosa Junction. A good section of it is flat, it’s relatively fast and there are good shoulders along the side of the road. Best of all, most of the way you’re riding along with a view of the ocean. It’s a spectacular place to ride and generally speaking there is enough room for cyclists and traffic to co-exist in a nice harmonious way. It’s around 30km there and 30km back, which will take an average rider around two hours.”

The club runs distance races of up to 55 kilometres, whilst also mixing things up with shorter time trial events and the criterium, which involves racing laps around a fixed short-course. Craig says club races could be enjoyed purely as a personal challenge or act as a gateway to more serious races.

“The races we do are first and foremost to get people involved and get the enjoyment going,” he says. “You’re riding in a big group, everyone is egging you along – it’s a great feeling. We’ve got riders from age nine right through to past 70.

“But we support those who want to get more serious. Our history bringing through juniors has been the best in Queensland. We’ve had riders who started with us as kids and have gone all the way to the world championships.”

SCCC has daily training, with main groups of riders leaving from Mooloolaba and Noosa and smaller groups leaving from other various locations.

Annual membership starts at $66 for juniors and $242 for adults. sunshinecoastcycling.com.au >

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Cruising for a coffee Taking in some of the Sunshine Coast’s most magnificent scenery, the Sunshine Coast Bicycle Touring Club (SCBTC) throws caution to the wind in pursuit of fitness, friendship and fine coffee.

In contrast to traditional cycling clubs, SCBTC ride on a mix of paths or roads depending on the distance, experience and health goals of members. SCBTC President Helen Gavigan says riders get to enjoy some of the coast’s most beautiful locations in a warm and welcoming environment.

“The focus is on enjoying the ride and making sure everyone has fun and comes home safe,” she says. “We also teach people who haven’t done a lot of riding to be aware of road rules and be courteous on cycle ways.

“Different members volunteer to lead each ride and are very flexible.

They often accommodate requests to stop by certain locations.”

Riders can choose a group depending on their fitness level and goals, with opportunities to cover distances from 20 to 50 kilometres. The shorter-distance groups make use of paths, whilst more advanced groups ride on roads and move at a sharper pace.

Helen says riders right across the groups are given an invaluable opportunity to make lifelong friends.

“The first thing we do is tell everyone where we’ll be stopping along the way for coffee so we can regroup and have a chat,” Helen says. “On certain days, we’ll organise what we call an ARSE – an after ride social event. The coast is such a wonderful place to cycle. Everyone mingles and forms friendships and is very welcoming.”

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Helen says social cycling was something she discovered later in life and has found to be a huge boost to her fitness.

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Helen Gavigan’s preferences for touring cyclists The bike: “We get people who start on a bike they might have bought from a department store and put together themselves. As they get more comfortable they graduate to a more expensive bike. It doesn’t really matter what you start on, as long as you’re comfortable.”

Protective equipment and accessories: “We like people to bring a tube, repair kit, plenty of water and some basic first aid in case you come off your bike. You can wear any clothes that are comfortable, but people will often buy cycling clothes as they begin to ride more frequently.”

Best ride: “There’s a really nice ride I like to do from Mudjimba Beach. It’s all cycle paths as you head north towards Marcoola.

You start cycling alongside Marcoola Esplanade and alongside Marcoola Surf Club. As you follow the path further, it takes you into a pathway that runs through the bush on the dunes of the beach, over a bridge and onto a lookout where you can see down to Point Cartwright and up towards Coolum. From there you keep heading north and it takes you up near the Palmer Coolum Resort to another beach look-out. It’s probably 20km return.”

“We have cyclists of all ages – from kids right up to people in their mid-eighties – and the different groups mean everyone can find a pace that’s right for them,” she says. “Most of our official club rides are on Saturday and Sunday. But we do have unofficial club rides during the week. “All somebody needs to do is ring a contact via the calendar and there’s usually someone who can accommodate them.”

SCBTC membership starts at $15 to join, plus $24 for 12 months. scbtc.org.au

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feel Illustration courtesy of TWIGSEEDS STUDIO, twigseeds.com.au

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SENSES The world is a sensory place. salt takes a peek at items that evoke us to see, hear, smell, taste and touch and we have tossed in an extra just for fun … feel.

see The Norwegian blockbuster Kon-Tiki follows the true story of the ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl’s attempt to prove his theory that Polynesia was discovered and settled by South Americans. In this action-adventure story, the determined Thor gathers a group of inexperienced friends to attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia by raft in 1947. Such a bold, heroic and insane mission is brought to life beautifully on film and has to be seen to be believed. review libby munro

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You could win a case (yes, we said case) OF Karma Cola at saltmagazine.com.au

smell Follow your nose to the real “real thing”.

Karma Cola is made with authentic cola nuts from Sierra Leone, fair-trade organic vanilla from Papua New Guinea and sugar from Paraguay. Part of the proceeds from every bottle sold goes to the cola nut farmers to help re-establish their livelihoods in the aftermath of war, and a fair-trade premium is paid back to the vanilla bean and sugar farmers. No secret recipe, Karma Cola combines natural spices (cinnamon, nutmeg and coriander) with lemon, lime and orange oils. Plus there’s no artificial colouring, preservatives or phosphoric acid and the cola is free from genetic engineering.

What goes around comes around! $3.99 per 330ml bottle.

Available at Organika, Shop 2/3 Gibson Road, Noosaville. 5442 4973 or organika.com.au

hear The buzz in London is all about the trio London Grammar of Nottingham University alumni who have created a sound that belies their tender years.

London Grammar’s album If You Wait has given the trendy electropop genre a haunting make-over with heart wrenching lyrics that touch your soul and vocals from singer Hannah Reid that have strength, vulnerability and wisdom in spades.

One audio-byte of “Hey Now” will have you hooked ... so go back to school. It’s worth it. review libby munro

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TOUCH To snag your very own Buderim Ginger Revitalise mixer, head to our online WIN page.

TASTE Marinated chicken skewers – tick. Sticky pork spare ribs – done. Ginger fruit frappes – yes please! Buderim Ginger has got summer wrapped up with their new Ginger Revitalise mixer, perfect for food and drink creations this summer. The low sugar and alcohol-free cordial is free of artificial colours or flavours and is as versatile as your food innovations allow: use to create refreshingly cool drinks, splash into salad dressings and sauces, recharge a stir-fry or conjure a wicked dessert.

Leave a lighter touch on planet earth with Mariachi outdoor mats, made from the highest quality 100 per cent recycled poly material such as plastic milk jugs, soft drink and water bottles. The mats create beauty from materials that would otherwise be landfill bound and are enriched with stateof-the-art colorants and UV protectors to stop them from fading. Ranging from traditional patterns to bold geometrics, these are the longest-lasting outdoor rugs on the planet and start from just $35.

Available from Kunara Organic Marketplace, 330 Mons Road, Forest Glen. 5445 6440 or kunara.com.au

Available at Buderim Ginger, 50 Pioneer Road, Yandina. 1800 067 686 or buderimginger.com

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OFF THE BEATEN TRACK is fishing spot Dunethin Rock. Suitable for the keen angler or a family day out, Dunethin Rock has something to suit everyone. Located on the Maroochy River off Dunethin Rock Road, this hidden treasure boasts picnic tables, a jetty, boat ramp and stunning views of the ranges. Fishermen can choose between fishing the protected inlet of Lake Dunethin or Maroochy River itself.

Catches range from mangrove jack and bream to pan-size flathead and mud crab. People also flock to the rock to catch a glimpse of the local kookaburra population. Map reference: M16

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CHEESE-DRENCHED OZ/MEXICAN food has had its day and increasingly diners are demanding more of the authenticity with less of the sombreros and sugar-laden Sangria premix, thanks. Judging from the crowds that have been flocking to the new fairy-floss coloured Cotton Tree restaurant, The Prickly Pinata, the Sunshine Coast has long been singing for its spicy supper.

Occupying a breezy outdoor space, with pastel powder-coated Tolix chairs and fiesta-worthy embroidered cushions, and featuring artwork by local blogger and artist Mandy Shadforth aka Oracle Fox on the wall, this is the type of place that works for any occasion. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 45 The Esplanade, Cotton Tree. Map reference: N17

THE BACK STREETS of Maroochydore can be as deserted as a sausage sizzle at a vegan festival come 5pm, but the quirky brains behind The Velo Project have been busily scheming for all of that to change. Factory will be a cafe-cum-restaurant-cum-nightclub and entertainment space like no other situated at Sunshine Plaza Riverwalk in Maroochydore. With amphitheatre-style seating and the signature Velo thrift-store flair – think paint tins reworked into stools, old elevator cages turned into VIP booths, and a very 1920s vibe. The nightclub will be revealed first, with the cafe and restaurant hopefully open by Christmas, and performance space by New Year’s Eve. Map reference: N17

SEEK AND YE SHALL find the Lions Dens Espresso Bar Coolum.

Occupying a narrow walkway between commercial buildings, the cafe corridor is inviting, colourful and creative with quirky wall murals, funky furniture (including lounges, bench stool and table seating options), plenty of cushions and reading material to go round, plus a locally-focused arts space for browsing. Lions Den specialises in stand out coffee – Kai organic and free-trade – paired with simple, sweet treats and muffins. Greenoaks Drive behind Jetts Gym, Coolum Beach. Map reference: N15 14

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shop the THE FIRST SATURDAY of every month is songwriters open mic at Yandina creative space The Shared. It’s a packed-out family-friendly event where all ages gather to hear local talent impress with their vocal and musical abilities.

The listening space attracts novice and seasoned singer/songwriters alike due to the supportive and sympathetic audience where it’s all about supporting the performance – no matter what level they’re at. The Shared also supports a coffee shop, school of photography, exhibitions and free movie screenings, so it’s worth keeping an eye on their website. theshared.com.au 13 Railway Street, Yandina. Map reference: L15

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Rewarding visitors with discounts and more THE SUNSHINE COAST can now tick a stylish jazz bar off its list of nightspots. The Piano Bar is a very welcome addition to Maroochydore’s Ocean Street. It comes complete with live music, Mediterranean tapas menu and a long list of refreshments including some classic cocktails. The dimly lit bar complements the relaxed jazz music that emanates from the baby grand piano in the corner each night from Wednesday to Sunday. 22 Ocean Street, Maroochydore.

Map reference: N17

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Sisters Maxie, Jessie and Georgie Photo by Megan Cullen

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Three creative food-loving sisters from a little Sunshine Coast hinterland town have found themselves under the international spotlight, with an unusual cookbook which is taking the foodie world by storm.

It began, as many of the best ideas do, over dinner. A Mexican dinner party, to be exact, around a table full of students and artists, in a share house in inner-city Brisbane.

The house – a leafy Queenslander with big front and back decks – was a little different, in terms of food at least, to the typical student digs. Far from having a sparsely stocked pantry littered with two-minute noodles and the occasional tin of spaghetti, this was a place where fresh food was in creative abundance, and people came to eat.

That’s because the three sisters who lived there – Jessie, Georgie and Maxie Thompson – had always been dedicated lovers of all things culinary.

They had grown up with a passion for food, inherited from their parents, and nurtured by their surroundings. Born in Buderim, the girls moved to Woombye with their family as very young children.

It was here, in the rich sub-tropical landscape of the Sunshine Coast hinterland where they grew up and where their parents still live, the three sisters garnered a deep appreciation for the fresh delicious produce which surrounded them. They describe a “very outdoorsy” lifestyle, cooking damper on a campfire with friends after school.

“We had avocado trees, and there was a mango farm next door, and pineapple farms, and just driving around there were all these little roadside stalls with fresh produce,” says Jessie. “I guess we always knew where our food came from.”

“And Mum and Dad always had vegetable gardens with lots of stuff growing, so we could run out and pick what we needed to make for dinner,” says Maxie.

In fact, by the time the three were living in the share house together in 2009, they were in the process of creating a cookbook which would showcase their favourite recipes. So it was natural that on the night of the Mexican feast, in the company of their artist friends, the topic of conversation turned to food – and art.

“We handed some paper round the table and people started drawing their interpretations of dinner,” says Jessie. “One of the girls drew a cartoon character with a big Mexican hat, and someone else drew a chilli, and we thought this is really cool.

We’ll scan these and use them in the book’.”

The idea grew wings, and thus was born The Bookery Cook: Art to Eat. It’s a unique, quirky and eye-catching cookbook with a major difference: the recipes – all 120 of them – are illustrated not by the usual glossy food photos we are used to seeing, but by the work of 66 artists commissioned by the sisters from around the world to bring their dishes to life.

Published in May 2013, the book is enjoying burgeoning success in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It has received great acclaim in the often harsh British press, and was actually named food book of the week in Britain’s Daily Mail in May this year.

Their blog of the same name, created whilst they were working on the book, continues the sisters’ food philosophy of “exploring food and form”, and features recipes, illustrations by international artists, food-related art and design, music mixes and food commentaries. >

Artwor k by Femke de Jong (digital illustration )

Smoked salmon scrambled eggs with dill, caper and onion salsa A deliciously Scandinavian-style start to the day, this breakfast combines smoked fish and creamy eggs flavoured with fresh dill and salty capers. The salsa also goes well with boiled or poached eggs, simple steamed fish or some sharp cheddar on a sandwich.

Serves: 4 Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes

To make the dill, caper and onion salsa, combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

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Whisk together the eggs and cream in a bowl. Add the smoked salmon and season with freshly ground black pepper. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium–low heat and add the egg mixture.

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Use a wooden spoon or spatula to push the eggs from the bottom of the pan as they start to set and try to avoid overworking them. This will keep the eggs smooth and glossy. Cook the eggs for about 3 minutes, or until set. Remove from heat and season with sea salt.

Serve the scrambled eggs on the bread with the salsa and a wedge of lemon for squeezing over.

L to R: Georgie (3), Jessie (6) and Maxie (3)

Maxie explains that most of the artists were happy to be involved in the project. The link between food and art is not, after all, a new one. “Art and food go hand in hand in terms of creativity and colour,” she says.

The result is a funky, eclectic collection of art, not to mention mouth-watering recipes. ‘Dark chocolate toastie with Cointreau dipping cream’ is illustrated by a sultry black Jaguar licking his lips; ‘smoked salmon scrambled eggs with dill, caper and onion salsa’ is accompanied by a picture of a penguin serving a rooster breakfast by the sea. Then there’s the ‘homemade baked beans’, depicted by a pop art dancing bean wearing a top hat.

The idea of illustrating the recipes with art, sparked on the night of the Mexican dinner party, had quickly spread throughout the group of artists who were the sisters’ friends.

“We thought it was really cool to see how people had interpreted the meals,” says Jessie. “So we thought ‘let’s take this a bit further’.

We started asking some friends if they’d like to choose a recipe and do an illustration based on the recipe. Then we started asking more friends, and people heard what was going on, and then we just started approaching other artists who we didn’t know personally but whose work we really loved.”

All the recipes are the original creations of the sisters themselves, although they acknowledge their mother, Ros, as having a huge influence on the project. “We started with a lot of the recipes we cooked in the [share] house, and we have to give Mum credit here,” says Jessie. “There are some traditional family recipes in there but with a bit of a contemporary edge. And we made quite a lot of them up.”

Their father, Neil, also made a major contribution: “Dad’s our key taste tester,” says Jessie, who spent eight months at the family home before the book’s release, copy editing and recipe testing.

Whilst all the sisters share an obvious closeness and a passion for food, their individual talents – and geographical locations – are distinctly different. Jessie, 30, lives in Melbourne and is website co-ordinator for a travel company. She has studied marketing and linguistics, travelled the world, and lived in Japan for a year where she was “teaching English and learning a lot of Japanese cooking”. >

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Lovely legs Everyone appreciates a nice set of legs! Administer these snacks with moist towelettes as these sweet and sour Mediaeval-like snacks are sticky!

Serves: 8 Prep time: 15 minutes + 1 hour refrigeration time Cooking time: 40 minutes 80ml soy sauce 2 tbsp caster sugar 1 tbsp fish sauce 2 tsp lime juice 2 tsp finely grated ginger ¼ tsp chilli powder 2 tbsp grapeseed oil 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves and stems 8 chicken drumsticks In a bowl, combine the soy sauce, sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, ginger and chilli, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Add the grapeseed oil and coriander and mix well.

Arrange the chicken drumsticks in a 20cm square baking dish, pour over the marinade and toss well to coat the chicken. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, preferably overnight, turning the drumsticks occasionally.

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Maxie and Georgie, 26, are twins. Georgie is a graphic designer who runs her own design studio, and is currently travelling through Asia with her husband. They plan to settle in London.

Maxie is a chef, who originally studied fashion design and worked for Chanel in New York for a year and a half, which she describes as “pretty fun”, but “a bit soulless”. Whilst in New York, she realised her lifelong ambition of becoming a chef and attended culinary school there, an experience which was “brilliant, really fun, but really intense”, and which enabled her to make “some great food connections”. Now, Maxie is cooking at an iconic restaurant in Hobart which uses only locally grown produce and changes its menu daily. She wakes every morning and “skips out of bed”, so excited is she about going to work.

The future for Bookery Cook includes “definitely another book”, says Maxie, who also says they’d “love to have something more physical … and wouldn’t rule out a restaurant”. Whilst their current living arrangements may make this seem impossible, geography is not something these three sisters have ever let bother them before. They meet up every six months or so at their family home at Woombye, which Maxie describes as “definitely our favourite place in the world”. And there are no surprises about the main topic of conversation when the family gets together.

“It’s always a big cook-off,” says Maxie. “As soon as we book our flights, the next question is ‘what are we going to eat?’”

L to R: Georgie, Jessie and Maxie. Photo by Megan Cullen

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JANUARY WEDDING OPEN DAY View boutique wedding venue Weddings at Tiffany’s during their exclusive open house weekend.

Meet local wedding suppliers whilst you enjoy canapés, beverages and live music. when January 11 to 12 where 409 Mountain View Road, Maleny cost Free weddingsattiffanys.com.au

DECEMBER ARTY PANTS KIDS FESTIVAL The highly anticipated Arty Pants Kids Festival is returning to Caloundra this December. It offers a fun-filled interactive family day out and the chance to explore creative performing and visual arts. when December 15 where The Events Centre, 20 Minchinton Street, Caloundra cost $15 per person or $50 family pass artypantsfestival.com.au

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This is a spectacular one-hour magic show where Nickleby The Magician is joined by special guests as they perform amazing illusions. Meet crazy animals with Ranger Rango, have loads of laughs with Ralph The Rabbit, and Pavlo is back cooking up a storm in his Comedy Kitchen. when January 14 at 1pm where Lake Kawana Community Centre, 114 Sportsmans Parade, Bokarina cost $15 entry / $12 Groups 10+ scvenuesandevents.com.au GINGER FLOWER & FOOD FESTIVAL

WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL One of the Sunshine Coast’s premier cultural events of the year returns to the tiny town of Woodford. The six-day artistic extravaganza will welcome in the new year with a host of worldclass music acts and events. when December 27 to January 1 where Woodrow Road, Woodfordia cost From $107 woodfordfolkfestival.com.au

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The Ginger Factory will burst into colour over three glorious days as the Ginger Flower and Food Festival returns for another exciting installment. Accompanying the first blooms of the year will be some of the coast’s most popular chefs, gardening celebrities and artists. when January 17 to 19 where The Ginger Factory, Pioneer Rd, Yandina cost Free gingerfactory.com.au

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NEW YEAR’S EVE – MOOLOOLABA Mooloolaba Esplanade will come alive with carnival rides, live music, street performers and two spectacular fireworks displays this New Year’s Eve. This familyfriendly event is alcohol and glass free with a children’s firework display at 8.30pm and the big show at midnight.

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You can’t get much more Australian than thongs and a little bit of healthy competition. The day will host an array of thong-related activities as Mooloolaba again tries to dethrone world record holders WA for the longest line of inflatable thongs.

GRAPE STOMP FESTIVAL

AUSSIE DAY SPORT & RECREATION EXPO Enjoy some hinterland hospitality at the Sport & Recreation Expo on the banks of the Obi Obi Creek. when January 26 where Maleny Showgrounds, Maleny-Stanley River Road, Maleny cost Free AUSTRALIA DAY FLAG RAISING CEREMONY Join in the Australia Day spirit with the raising of the flag and community activities. when January 26 where Lions Park, Kings Beach, Caloundra cost Free sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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MARCH NOOSA FESTIVAL OF SURFING This globally renowned festival returns to the beautiful beaches of Noosa with categories open to the public for juniors, men and women of all ages as well as for families. Venues around Noosa will be hosting entertainment for the whole family. when March 9 to 15 where First Point, Noosa cost Prices vary noosafestivalofsurfing.com

QUEENSLAND TRI SERIES Round 6 of the series is open to all levels of triathlete including first timers looking to get a taste for the testing world of triathlon. when February 2 where Golden Beach and surrounding area cost $70 qldtriseries.com.au GRAPE STOMP FESTIVAL Get down and dirty whilst stomping Shiraz grapes into your own wine the traditional way. This family-friendly afternoon will include jazz music, food and fun for everyone. when February 15 where Flame Hill Vineyard, 249 Western Avenue, Montville cost $25 flamehill.com.au MOOLOOLABA MILE OCEAN SWIM The one mile (1.6km) course has gained an iconic reputation for elite open water swimmers around the world but is still well within reach of beginners and novice ocean swimmers. The course finishes at Mooloolaba’s main beach, which is great viewing for spectators, family and friends. when February 16 where Mooloolaba Beach cost $45 weekendwarriorevents.com.au

1984 This new stage adaption of George Orwell’s classic story is created and performed by Shake & Stir Theatre Company, the team that brought us the multi award-winning, critically acclaimed adaption of Animal Farm. when March 11 where Lake Kawana Community Centre, 114 Sportsmans Parade, Bokarina cost $40 scvenuesandevents.com.au NIGHTS ON OCEAN The monthly Nights On Ocean market has become the new hub of the Maroochydore community, based on authentic and culturally diverse music, food, fashion and the arts. when March 14 where Ocean Street, Maroochydore cost Free nightsonocean.com.au OPERA IN THE CASTLE Some of Australia’s finest voices will perform an intimate concert at the Sunshine Castle to an audience of just 100 people. when March 28 to 30 where Sunshine Castle, 292-296 David Low Way, Bli Bli cost $75 sunshinecastle.com

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Having a voice, and making it heard, is one of the most powerful assets a person can possess.

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For some people – those without the apparent ability to speak – this power may seem like an elusive dream. Assisting children with special needs to find their voice – quite literally – is a dream which one Sunshine Coast woman is helping to make come true.

Lisa Mills – teacher, theatre director, actor and yoga instructor – is achieving astonishing results from the courses she offers, many of which aim to help children speak. Lisa teaches a range of courses to adults and children including Auslan (Australian Sign Language), creative arts and yoga through her business, Honeybee Creations at Maroochydore. Her Auslan for Early Childhood Training (for teachers and student teachers) is booming, and her drama classes are overflowing. She has recently released an educational music DVD aimed at being used in mainstream classrooms that include children with special needs.

Lisa also happens to be deaf. Her qualifications and experience are impressive and her own voice is eloquent. But it’s her smile, and the energy behind it, which wields the greatest power.

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Lisa’s deafness has undoubtedly given her a deep and abiding insight into a world where communication extends way beyond the spoken word. Unsurprisingly, she is passionate about increasing awareness of deaf issues in the community.

What is a little surprising, given that teaching Auslan constitutes the largest part of Lisa’s work, is that the majority of Lisa’s clients are not hearing impaired. “I actually work with very few deaf people,” she says.

“Everybody thinks [my business] is all about the deaf community, but it’s actually a very little part of my work. I teach a lot of mainstream kids, and kids who are non-verbal – they may be able to speak only a few words or sounds. They come to me to learn how to speak. Often they are kids with autism, or speech and language delays, or Down syndrome.”

Lisa explains that learning sign language uses the right side of the brain, whilst speech uses the left. When people learn to sign, it has a “jump-start” effect.

“Sign language is a means to speak,” she says. “It facilitates speech and language, it doesn’t delay it.” Lisa relays a story about a prepaged child she started working with using sign language who had never previously spoken.

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Whilst Lisa is now bilingual (she speaks English and signs), it was not always so. Born with a severe hearing impairment, she grew up using hearing aids, and went to mainstream schools in Gympie and later Maroochydore. She learnt to speak English with the help of special education support inside and outside of school, and an inspiring speech and drama teacher.

Despite Lisa’s overwhelmingly positive attitude, her voice quietens a little when she recalls some of those childhood memories.

“Deafness can be an isolating experience because you don’t hear all that incidental language, only language that is directed at you.

So yeah, it was tough. Ultimately, it made me a stronger person I think,” she says.

“Drama was very good for me. If I didn’t do drama, I might have gone completely into my shell. It made me come out.”

With her love of drama ignited, she went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and English at university, and set her sights on the theatre. It was now that she studied and gained a formal qualification in Auslan. “I had discovered the Australian Theatre of the Deaf company in Sydney, and in order to work with that company, or to do work experience with them, I knew I needed to learn sign language.”

Lisa went on to work as an actor with that very company, launching a successful career in the creative arts. Moving to London, she became an international theatre director and workshop leader for deaf and hearing youth, and worked for Arts Council England as a Deaf Arts Consultant, which involved increasing awareness of deaf issues and promoting the work of deaf artists.

Returning to the coast, Lisa completed a postgraduate teaching diploma in 2009 at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and taught in Fiji, London and Australia’s Cape York, primarily working with special needs children and early intervention education.

During her time in the UK she met and fell in love with Steve Wellman, whom she travelled the world with and eventually came back with to the Sunshine Coast, establishing Honeybee Creations three years ago. Lisa and Steve “finally got hitched” in Coolum last year after 14 years together, and are now the proud parents of baby Romeo.

Steve, a painter and decorator, is profoundly deaf after contracting meningitis when he was three, and uses sign language exclusively.

Romeo, who Lisa describes as having “super good hearing”, is destined to be bilingual.

In what could perhaps be seen as the ultimate show of family support, Lisa’s parents and sisters took Auslan classes earlier this year.

“My sisters and parents wanted to learn to sign before Romeo arrived, as they realise Romeo’s first language will be sign language, despite being hearing,” she says. “Romeo also inspired my family to learn sign so they can communicate better with my husband.”

Lisa credits her family – none of whom is hearing impaired – with providing her with an endless supply of love, support and encouragement, and for showing her that anything is possible.

“They never let me give up,” she says. “I was always taught to be independent and to achieve.” honeybee-creations.com FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Lisa Mills and her family.

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The famous actor W. C. Fields once quipped that you should never work with dogs or children. Fearless Patricia McAlister does both.

Fields was worried about being upstaged, though his witticism has often been cited by people worried that their diminutive co-stars will be difficult to work with.

Patricia has no fears about being upstaged, nor is she worried about the challenges she faces. Instead, she relishes them. As the founder and training director at Smart Pups, Patricia oversees an organisation whose goal is to pair specially trained dogs with children with special needs.

Patricia founded the organisation just a few years ago. She was working as a dog behaviourist when a family approached her with an unusual request: “They said, ‘Actually, we don’t have a problem with the dog … we’ve got a child on the spectrum, and we’re wondering if you would be able to help train the dog for us’.”

Patricia was keen to help, but she was unsure what kind of specialised training the dog might require. She did a bit of research, and found out that whilst there wasn’t anybody doing this kind of specialised work in Australia, there was an organisation in the United States – 4 Paws for Ability.

She made contact with the organisation’s founder Karen Shirk and after a bit of going back and forth, was invited to do an

HOW CAN I HELP? • Make a donation. Smart Pups are a not-for-profit charity, so any donations you make to their organisation are tax deductible.

You can make small (or large) donations at any time. For more information, visit smartpups.org.au • Sponsor a puppy: It costs $25,000 to raise and train a Smart Pup, but you can sponsor a pup for as little as $1 a day. In return for your support, you’ll receive monthly reports, including photographs of your pup.

• Foster a puppy: If you live on the Sunshine Coast, you could become a foster family for a Smart Pup. Smart Pups live with you from 10 weeks of age until their first birthday. All of the pup’s food and medical costs are met by Smart Pups, who also take the dogs out for regular weekday training sessions: you just provide the home, time and love.

internship with 4 Paws. Going to Ohio to complete the internship turned out to be a life-changing decision. Whilst Patricia had been working with dogs since she was small, the opportunity to combine her skills as a dog behaviourist with helping others in need was a perfect fit.

“This was really what I wanted to do, because there is such a need for this service,” she says. “I started up based on [4 Paws for Ability’s] model. I thought it would be something small, but over the last three years we’ve had around 400 applicants.”

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WHAT KIND OF DOG IS THAT? Smart Pups train labradors and golden retrievers. Smart Pups train dogs to support children with a range of disabilities, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism, although Patricia says that they aim to support, “any child that has a difficulty, and would gain independence and other benefits from having a dog”. That said, there are a couple of specific types of dogs trained by Smart Pups: • Seizure Response Assist Dogs are trained specifically to provide support for children who experience seizures. The dogs are trained to alert the child’s carer when a seizure occurs, and provide support during recovery. Studies have shown that the frequency of seizures often reduces in children who have a seizure response dog, though it isn’t yet known why this occurs.

• Autism Assist Dogs are specially trained to support children on the autism spectrum. Amongst many other benefits, they reduce the child’s stress levels, help manage emotional distress, and provide children with increased safety.

• Multipurpose Assistance Dogs are trained, in specific ways, to help children with varies disabilities. Wheelchair assistance and mobility assistance are just a couple of examples.

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visited Patricia in her home, an eight-week-old pup had only recently arrived and was already learning his ABCs. Each pup completes basic training, including 120 hours of publicaccess training. This means that Smart Pups can go with their child on trains and buses, into supermarkets and almost anywhere else a person might go without fear.

But Smart Pups learn much more. “By the time the pups get to be about 10 months old, we start training them in task specific skills, depending on what the child needs. So, if it’s a child in a wheelchair, the dog is trained to pick things up, open doors, turn on lights. If it’s a child with autism, we train the dog to disrupt the meltdowns. The dogs are trained to track the children if they run off.

“The child can be tethered to the dog, to prevent them from running away, and the children often quite like the new sense of independence that comes with that: holding a handle on their dog, instead of being held by Mum. We have one dog that has been trained to go over and push the boy with his nose when the boy starts flapping his arms; to disrupt meltdowns by sticking his nose in the boy’s face if he starts to get upset. It’s pretty hard to keep crying if you’ve got a fat nose in your face.

“We can train the dog to lie across the child if weight helps; if that comforts the child. Or to put their head on their lap. There’s a whole range of things we train dogs to do, depending on what helps that child, and that family, to gain more independence.”

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that one to pick things up for a wheelchair, we find a dog that’s particularly sensitive, we may use that one for seizure response.

We channel the dogs where we think they’ll enjoy that work, and will fit in best with that particular family.”

Seizure response dogs can develop an ability to recognise the subtle signs of an oncoming epileptic seizure. Some of the seizure response dogs Patricia has trained have become sensitive enough to be able to warn their child’s parent or carer of an oncoming seizure 10, even 20 minutes before the seizure occurs.

But even highly trained Smart Pups are not a substitute for attentive parenting.

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A PUPPY FOR PATRICK A year ago, things were pretty tough for Kris and her three sons Ryan, 15, Izzak, 10, and Patrick, 8. All three boys are on the autism spectrum, although it’s Patrick who needs the most support.

Patrick’s behaviour made simply leaving the house difficult, as he would sometimes climb out of car windows without thought for his safety. And after a year of trying, Kris had finally given up on trying to settle Patrick at school. Then Ryan started doing some work with Smart Pups.

“When I saw the amazing dogs and how much they helped children, we pretty much went from there,” Kris says.

Fourteen months of preparation followed, including fund-raising, identifying and training the right dog, and doing family visits and assessments to ensure the dog was trained to meet the family’s specific needs. Life could not be more different for the family now.

“Pretty much everywhere Patrick goes, and the boys go, Raz goes with them,” Kris says.

That includes trips to the shops and the beach – simple outings that were once almost unimaginable. Patrick is even attending school three days a week, with support from Passionate Minds, an autism and Asperger’s support centre, with Raz by his side to support and calm him.

And last year, the family went on a family holiday to Hamilton Island. “We tried before, but it never worked. We’d always end up coming back on the first day. We spent a week there and it was fantastic.”

Kris is also delighted to discover that she can count on Smart Pups to support her family’s changing needs as well.

“For instance, Patrick has epilepsy now, so Raz will be getting trained in seizure response,” she says. “And if little things crop up, if I’m having a problem with one of the boys, I can talk to Patricia and we can see if there are things Raz can do to help.”

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FUZZY-FACED LOVE Service dogs provide support for children in a range of ways, but anecdotal evidence and some studies suggest that they provide at least four major benefits: 1. Safety: Service dogs provide supplementary supervision and support to children who experience seizures, and act as an ‘anchor’ for children with autism who may otherwise wander away or get lost.

2. Independence: Service dogs can provide additional assistance to children with mobility issues. They can also assist autistic children in navigating new environments or situations.

3. Behaviour: Service dogs may help modify a child’s behaviour, reducing the frequency and intensity of meltdowns in autistic children, for example, through providing comfort, affection and stability.

4. Community and social benefits: They help children build relationships with others, providing a communication ‘bridge’ between the child and their peers.

“They’re also trained to bark when the child starts to have a seizure, to alert Mum. They’re trained to stay with the child, and then help them with their recovery by helping them to stand up, or acting as a brace for them.”

Seizure dogs can also be trained to bring a pillow to their child during a seizure.

Every year, Smart Pups receives over a hundred applications for a service dog. It costs up to $25,000 to breed and train a Smart Pup: a cost that is covered for the family through heroic fundraising efforts.

“There is such a demand and it’s just money that’s holding us up,” Patricia says. “The more funds we can get, the more dogs we can get out there.”

It’s an ongoing challenge, but one Patricia and her team have the commitment and passion to go on meeting. “The more I learn about the children with disabilities, and how amazing their families are, the more I know I have found what I need to do.”

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There is no one term to describe the rich and varied career of Sunshine Coast wordsmith Phil Jarratt.

At one time or another, the Noosa local has filled the roles of industry-leading journalist, accomplished author and marketing whiz in high-flying roles all over the world. But through all of his wonderful professional and personal adventures, there is only one self-descriptor Phil feels completely at ease with.

“It was the summer of 1962-63 when I started surfing. Things were starting to ignite in Australia and around the world,” he says. “Surf movies, surf magazines – thing started to really happen. It was cool to be a surfer, so when I was young I just had to do it.

“A surfer from Cronulla named Bobby Brown – who was one of the best surfers in Australia at the time – used to come down after work and surf at our beach until dark. He took the time to teach not just me, but a whole heap of grommets at our beach.

“I’ve done a lot of things in my career, but somehow it all comes back to my passion for surfing,” he says. “I’ve been surfing for more than 50 years now. I started when I was 11 and am now 62.

“He’d even loan me his board when I didn’t have one. He was a really, really nice guy and was instrumental in getting me into the sport.”

“I tend to put on my departure cards ‘occupation: journalist’, but I don’t really mean it. I keep moving from one thing to another. I’m forever restless.”

Whilst Bobby was by all accounts a polite and supremely talented athlete who was engaged to marry the love of his life, he succumbed to one of the many social pitfalls of the era, dying after being glassed in a pub at the tender age of 20.

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It was the reporting of these darker elements of the surfing scene – the drinking, drug taking and party lifestyle – that Phil focused on to make a name for himself in his early years as a surf journalist.

“You have to face certain realities in surfing and the first one I had to deal with was that I was never going to be a champion. In order to keep surfing foremost in my life, I had to involve it in my work,” he says. “I made my name as a surf writer by being a bit left field and outrageous – going where no-one had been before. I described all of the peripheral stuff that went on in our sport – the parties, drinking and drug taking.

“My friends at the time were the pot-smoking, acid-dropping surfers who at the time were the best. They were rock stars of the surf scene who embraced what we wrote about them.”

Phil’s new-wave approach paved a fast path to the top of journalism, leading to writing gigs with the likes of Nine’s Wide World of Sport and editorships with famed publications like Australian surfing magazine Tracks and even ’70s skin start-ups Playboy and Penthouse.

His take on the early days of the famed flesh mags?

“Back then, Playboy and Penthouse were pretty nasty visually.

They didn’t hold back,” he says. “But on the other hand the editorial content was quite meaty, if you’ll pardon the expression.

In the tradition of the American magazine, we conducted serious interviews and promoted high-profile political, environmental and social issues.

“It became a cliché to say ‘I buy it for the articles’, but there was some great stuff in there. When my time was up I was glad to be out of it, but at the time it taught me a lot, was lucrative and set me up for a future in journalism.”

Phil’s years spent penning in-depth articles on the world’s best, brightest and boldest personalities soon led to full-blown bookwriting opportunities – a passion he pursues most actively today.

He has helped tell the stories of everyone from Evonne Goolagong-Cawley to surfing enigma Kelly Slater and is currently working on a creative non-fiction book about the birth of surfing in Australia.

The Sunshine Coast became Phil’s home 23 years ago when he moved to Noosa. He’s been an active member of the local community, launching and editing popular local magazine Noosa Blue and re-invigorating and running the famous Noosa Festival of Surfing with his daughter, Sam. Whilst travel and work have regularly taken him away from the surfing hotspot, sometimes for years at a time, there was never any doubt as to where he wanted to make his home base.

“In 2007 I gave up corporate life and came home to Noosa to watch my grandkids grow up, surf more and work on the projects I enjoy,” he says. “I see a lot of people my age who have moved through the hierarchy of the media world who are now retiring or being shown the door with hideously big redundancy packages.

“I could have played that hand and I chose not to. Of course I wouldn’t have minded a big fat golden handshake, but I’d rather have what I’ve got, which is the ability to delude myself that I’m really not in my 60s. My retirement plan is about eliminating the stuff that I do just for the money, the stuff that I don’t enjoy. I always want to keep travelling, keep moving, keep surfing.”

When trying to summarise Phil’s approach to work and indeed, life, there are few metaphors that convey his attitude better than his approach to surfing.

“A lot of people my age want to sit out the back of the surf and talk – it’s like the 19th hole on the golf course,” he says.

“That’s nice, but I like to catch my fair share of waves. I’m still hungry.”

Phil’s latest book, Surfing Australia: A Complete History of Surfboard Riding in Australia, is out now. That Summer At Boomerang will be published in January.

BOOKS & BLOGS

BOOKS

& BLOGS

Reviews Claire Plush

We’ve done the hard work and sifted through mounds of books to find the best new releases for summer. Here are our top picks to keep you entertained.

BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK

BEST ILLUSTRATED

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Kissed by the Moon Alison Lester | Penguin Books | $20 (hardcover) Full of warmth and love, this lullaby-like tale celebrates a new baby’s place in the world and the little things that become wondrous when seen through fresh eyes. Detailed illustrations complement soft, tender prose, making this book a timeless treasure and the perfect gift for a new baby or expected parents.

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Rules of Summer Shaun Tan | Hachette Children’s Books | $25 Shaun Tan is a master of conveying thought-provoking tales through his exquisite illustrations and Rules of Summer is no exception. Follow two brothers and the arbitrary rules that govern their relationship as they break each rule and come face-to-face with the unexpected consequences.

BEST COOKBOOK

BEST FICTION Eyrie Tim Winton | Penguin | $45 Tom Keely is divorced, unemployed and disenchanted with life. His grey days have a habit of rolling into one. That’s until he has a chance encounter with a woman from his past that shakes him out of his frustrating, downward spiral. Complex and filled with unforgettable characters, Eyrie will suck you in from beginning to end. One for the beach bag!

BEST LIFESTYLE

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The Food of Vietnam Luke Nguyen | Hardie Grant | $69.95 Throw out those takeaway menus and jump in the kitchen with celebrity chef Luke Nguyen – well, with his new cookbook anyway.

You’ll wander through marketplaces and strangers’ kitchens, and come out the other end making dinner party-worthy dishes, from pho to banh mi. Each chapter is dedicated to a different region, helping home cooks connect flavours and meals to areas across Vietnam.

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Gypsy Sibella Court | HarperCollins | $60 Bohemian babes will love the new design bible from stylist and globetrotter Sibella Court. Inspired by all things travel, Sibella spills the goods on her favourite suppliers as well as offloading a hefty list of insider secrets all for the greater good of sprucing up your nest.

Her layered, bowerbird style washes across each scrapbooked page, as she demonstrates how to draw inspiration from far away places.

BLOGS TO BOOKMARK SHOW AND TELL A new video interview series (in a similar style to Amanda de Cadenet’s The Conversation) featuring well-known Australian women.

It’s addictive! showandtellonline.com.au KRIS CARR Home to buckets of inspiration and smart motivation tactics for living a healthier, happier, more balanced life. kriscarr.com SOUS STYLE Meet a new generation of homemakers, leading lives that ooze with style and sexiness. sousstyle.com THE BEETLE SHACK An honest look into a young Australian family, documented through deep (and often humorous) musings, and natural photos. thebeetleshack.com The books were recommended by Rosetta Books, 30 Maple Street, Maleny. 5435 2134 and Books of Buderim, 82 Burnett Street, Buderim. 5445 1625. The blogs were selected by salt HQ.

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A DOSE OF SALT

Pet passion Words JANE FYNES-CLINTON Illustration Peter Hollard

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If you think about it, owning a pet is a very strange thing to do indeed.

We acquire a living but non-human being – a thing almost entirely covered in fur or feathers or scales – and bring it to live amongst us in our homes. There, it eats, poops, sleeps and explores as much as it is allowed. It is by turns hungry, bored, tired and energetic. And all the while, this creature is simply company and decoration, having to do nothing to earn its keep.

This sentient being does not converse, has no table manners, does not use the allocated toilet receptacle, leaves its belongings lying around, sheds its fur/scales/feathers, never wipes its feet and falls asleep on a whim. If they were a houseguest, we would boot them out quick smart.

But somehow the opposite occurs. We fall in love with them – even those with the worst of habits. They cleave their way into the fabric of the household and the core of its soul and then we cannot imagine our life without them in it.

Recent statistics show there are two million more pets in Australia than people, giving our fair nation one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world.

An Australian Animal Alliance survey showed that about seven out of 10 Australians who live in a house own a pet, and four out of 10 of those who live in an apartment have one. Interestingly, more than half of all people who don’t have a pet want one.

Fish are the most plentiful pet in the nation, with more than 10 million of them gawping and swishing around the place. There are also more than four million pooches and birds, and three million cats, not to mention the little critters like reptiles and mice.

Of course, all this fuzzy-faced, scaled up love is big business. The pet industry is said to be worth more than $8 billion a year. More than $2.5 billion is spent on Australian vet bills every year.

And yet we love them, partly because they are so different from us.

They return our love, and then some. They are pleased to see us no matter what mood we are in or how long we have been away.

They just make life feel somehow more real and complete.

Whilst some people are crazy about birds or fish, my preference has always been for friends in fur clothes.

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If they were a houseguest, we would boot them out quick smart.

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My earliest memories include the family dogs and I have rarely been without at least one canine and feline in my life.

My children grew up with Rosie the black labrador, who was the leftover food disposal, heard all of our secrets and was my hairy office girl and most loyal friend. We still share our home with Oreo, whose markings make him look like he is perpetually dressed in a fur dinner suit and is the love of my daughter’s life.

He is a little gentleman who loves routine, sniffing out food scraps and scrawling his name in pee on as many things as possible during his daily walks.

For novelty value, my small, tail-less, randomly patterned cat takes the cake. As well as being odd in looks, she is just plain nutty in almost every way – even for a cat.

She regularly chews thin air, like a cow chewing a cud. She is obsessed with a particular sleeping spot for days, then drops it like it’s hot. She spends several minutes patting down to get comfortable in a chosen spot (preferably atop a family member’s prone form on the couch and using her paws with claws extended on their squishy bits), then at the slightest movement starts the whole process somewhere else.

She even occasionally miaows with her nose pointed towards a particular corner of the family room, apparently paying some sort of homage to an invisible cat god in an intent and serious reverie.

More than anything, our pets are good at showing us that living in the moment is the way to go. And that being utterly yourself is the only thing to be – even if you are just a little bit crazy.

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TABLE TALK

Taste of the world WORDS ALEX FYNES-CLINTON

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The world is the oyster of Australian culinary maestro Peter Kuruvita.

The 50-year-old has built his career on exploring the delights of the globe’s most diverse cooking destinations, honing his craft in Europe, Asia, South America and countless nooks in between.

But with Noosa Beach House now open in Hastings Street, Sydneysider Peter will soon be swapping the city skyline for the rolling waves of Noosa as he takes up permanent residence on the Sunshine Coast. He says locals should keep an eye out for him waiting for the surf to roll in as the swell picks up over summer.

“I’m not very good, but I enjoy getting a surf in – I love Noosa’s beautiful beach,” Peter says. “It’s a suburb that’s very close to nature, but is also a classy little place. There’re always plenty of visitors and it offers a lot really close.

“We’ll be living there for a couple of years at least. After living in Sydney for so many years it’ll be great just having a backyard and garage. It’s a bit city boy comes to the country. You don’t often get the opportunity to move somewhere so beautiful with work there waiting for you.”

Peter’s road to his latest adventure has come courtesy of stints in establishments all over the world – from small time Sydney eateries to magnificent UK Michelin-star restaurants. A move to Sri Lanka as a young child ignited his interest in cooking, working alongside his family to create flavours that would act as a palette for his future work. >

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“I remember the smell of the big wood fire burning, the aromas of spices roasting and rice cooking, grandmas and aunties arguing about how much salt to add to dishes,” he says. “They were great times. My experience in Sri Lanka set a solid base not just for the flavours, but also for the passion.

“It showed me food is not just food – it’s a whole celebration. I don’t know who I’d be without those experiences.”

Peter’s teenage years were spent in Sydney’s western suburbs, a time he admits was difficult. Leaving school at a young age and struggling to fit into the area were tough, but proved an ideal test of the young man’s mettle.

“We arrived in Australia with not a lot of money. Our family name meant everything in Sri Lanka and my brothers and I were probably used to being spoiled,” he says. “Nearly from the moment we arrived in Australia I disliked it and got really angry about it. I was always in trouble.

“Those experiences gave me a real determination to say ‘bugger you, I can achieve something’.”

He developed a steely determination which saw him through a trainee chef’s course, earned him an apprenticeship at a local restaurant and led him on a path to the top of the industry.

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“My dad told me I had to get a job and knew I’d done a cooking traineeship,” Peter says. “I stopped by a restaurant, asked for and was given a job, started cooking and just loved it. The chef taught me basic French style. I took it further when I got a job in the city where I realised this beautiful modern French food.

“Those early experiences got me through my apprenticeship and over to England where I learnt true Michelin star cuisine.”

With such a rich and varied culinary education, Peter was always destined to innovate.

A head chef experience under the great Neil Perry gave him the first taste of fusion cooking and opened his eyes to the creativity he harboured.

“In England so many people talked about who they were and what they could do as a product of where they came from – people gave themselves limits and class,” he says. “I knew Australia was a place where none of that mattered. If you want to have a shot, go for it.

“When I came back [to work with Neil], I expected to be cooking French style food but ended up working with a lot of Thai and Indian dishes on the menu. It was the first time in the Sydney dining scene a top chef decided to do something different. It opened the door for me to begin using some of my Sri Lankan base.”

The journey since has been the most wonderful rollercoaster of discovery for the high-flying restaurateur: a television series exploring the world’s most interesting food cultures, stints in world class eateries and the opening of beautiful restaurants in the South Pacific and now Noosa. Peter’s food now reflects the countries and

places he’s visited, with his objective now to blend and create with the flavours he’s discovered in a contemporary style.

“Right through the menus I create I want to have dishes that reflect my base and my journey,” he says. “For example, I do a coconut sambal that comes straight from my grandmother’s kitchen.

When I eat it, I like to think it would make her happy. It’s about remembering the flavours and turning them into modern dishes.”

Peter is also big about giving autonomy to his chefs.

Where many big name chefs opt to stick strictly to their ideas, he likes to work closely with his best and brightest employees to add as much quality and innovation as possible. The ideal comes from his own early cooking experiences – working collaboratively with his family to create food that could be enjoyed by all comers.

“I have absolutely fantastic staff who keep my establishments running,” he says. “We employ great young chefs and we work together to get an understanding of what each other wants. We build the menu around the flavours people know me for and the creations of the new chef.

“It works very well. People really take ownership and that’s what it’s about. It’s great when you give direction and you can work together.”

Noosa Beach House is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, with live music every Friday and Sunday at the bar. Noosa Beach House, Sheraton Noosa, Hastings Street. 5449 4754.

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NOSH NEWS

1 Did you know GIBSONS OF NOOSA was

licensed? Open every day throughout December, enjoy boutique wine and beers accompanied

by Gibson’s famous fresh salads in the in-store cafe and surrounded by heavenly kitchen and homeware shopping. 9 Gibson Road, Noosaville.

5474 1111 or gibsonsnoosa.com.au

NOSH NEWS

words Karina Eastway

Dining in and out has never played a bigger part in our lives, so here salt shares news, information and products that enhance our passionate consumption.

2 The iconic SPIRIT HOUSE COOKING SCHOOL has undergone a stunning transformation with a new fit-out of inviting warm timbers, slate floors and stainless steel giving the space a contemporary Asian feel and greater flexibility in room configuration. There’s also a new dining area to enjoy the spoils of the daily Thai-influenced cooking classes in style. 20 Ninderry Road, Yandina. 5446 8977 or book online at spirithouse.com.au

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3 3 Best known for amazing Mediterranean and North African-inspired cuisine, marketsavvy SIROCCO is setting a high benchmark in providing delicious menu items which provide for dietary requirements such as gluten free without detracting from the taste or quality of food. Owner Laila Jones says: “In many ways we are really lucky because Sirocco bases its flavours on spices and fresh produce and not pre-processed ingredients which allows us to be far more flexible.” 2/257 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. 5455 6688 or sirocconoosa.com.au 4 Introducing the Nude Providore Range, NUDE DELI CAFÉ’S in-house products are made and bottled at Nude and ready to take home. They include jams, lemon curd, natural or toasted muesli, gluten-free muesli, Asian dressing and balsamic dressing. Get in quick for Nude’s Christmas cake made from Grandma Horne’s recipe.

Rovera Plaza, King Street, Cotton Tree. 5443 8819.

4 5 Celebrate summer at CALA LUNA with dishes so popular they’re requested over and over again. Try the typically Sardinian Insalata di Mare: cooked fresh large octopus, calamari, and prawns marinated in olive oil, garlic, parsley, freshly squeezed lemon juice, a little diced tomato and served on a bed of rocket.

Or the Arancini di Riso: saffron rice balls filled with teleggio cheese, lightly shallow fried and served with a homemade aioli and tomato salsa. Shop 3, 4 Aerodrome Road, Maroochydore.

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6 FLUX RESTAURANT LOUNGE is passionate about showcasing outstanding craft Australian beers and sweltering summer days provide the perfect excuse for the 4 Pines Kolsch. Available on tap, the German-style golden ale offers a dry malty palate, finishing crisp and clean with hints of spice and citrus and aromas of lemon and lime. Kolsch will be the hero at Flux’s January 22 Beer Dinner – an exciting food and beer matching experience. 3/255 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. 5455 6540 fluxlounge.com.au

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7 MALENY CRYSTAL CAFÉ is where you’ll find specialist gluten and dairy-free organic treats (including the most amazing glutenfree dark chocolate lamingtons) which we recommend pairing with award-winning Montville fairtrade and organic coffee. Affectionately known as Maleny’s house of sparkles due to the cafe’s wide range of gems from around the world, there are also deliciously naughty treats to enjoy. Shop 3, 45 Maple Street, Maleny. 5499 9918.

PRODUCE PEOPLE

Queen of the bees Words NIKE SULWAY photos anastasia kariofyllidis

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I meet the queen bee – Paula West – early one warm, blustery day.

We are headed out to check on one of the hives Paula maintains as part of her Adopt a Beehive network. She has driven down from her Conondale farm, where she and her husband Gary grow crops of organic fruit and vegetables. We shake hands through the open window of the ute and I jump in.

There are four hives of bees in the back of the ute, along with a scattering of beekeeping and gardening equipment. Paula is earthy and glowing, urgent and calm all at once.

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She wrote to me the night before with instructions: wear a longsleeved shirt. Long pants. Closed shoes. Clean, unscented hair.

“The bees,” she wrote, “have a strong sense of smell.”

We have to get moving. Whilst bees are incredibly robust creatures, they don’t do well in the hot, closed back of the ute.

We drive north from our rendezvous point, through a beautiful blue-sky day. The bees in the back seem calm and quiet, although when we arrive at the host farm and open the back of the ute, we see that a scattering of bees have left the hive and formed a thrumming circle of anxiety outside their box.

Paula pulls on her white overalls and beekeeper’s hat. She looks a little like an astronaut, and moves like one – with measured calm.

All of the hives in the Adopt a Beehive network are kept on ‘clean’ farms that are organic, biodynamic, pesticide-free.

Generally, people contact Paula in the first instance, letting her know they’d like to host a hive.

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“They tell me before I decide to attend a property what they grow on their property and what is being grown on the area around, what industry is around, and what is flowering,” she says.

Not all properties are suitable, even if they are organic and biodynamic.

“People say to me, ‘I live in a rainforest. You can put your beehives in my rainforest’. But rainforests don’t flower all year.

Bees need food all year round, just like us. We don’t need food just in the spring and summer. So, in an exclusive place like that, the bees will die. And I can’t have that. That’s irresponsible.”

Instead, Paula looks for locations where there is a variety of flowering crops, including vegetables, fruit trees and natives.

She’s particularly concerned with ensuring the bees are living in an environment where no pesticides are being used.

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“Better for the bees. Better for the humans. Better for our planet,” she says.

Adopt a Beehive is dedicated to creating honeybee sanctuaries, increasing bee populations and providing training for young beekeepers, as well as improving crop production and encouraging the use of organic gardening products.

The collapse in bee populations is causing growing concern throughout the world. The decline of any animal population is a concern, but the decline in bee populations also has a direct and measurable impact on our ability to grow food. Many food crops, from avocadoes to zucchinis, require bees for pollination.

Without bees, these crops falter rather than flourish.

Paula started the Adopt a Beehive program less than two years ago, but has already established a national network of hives.

Initially she ran workshops teaching people the basics of beekeeping, and sold starter hives. But a beehive needs constant attention throughout the summer, in particular, and Paula found that most people, despite their enthusiasm, weren’t cut out to be beekeepers. >

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Like bees to honey • Attracting bees to your garden will improve the pollination of your fruit, flowers and vegetables.

• You can attract bees by planting a “supermarket” of plants that flower throughout the year. Paula particularly recommends planting basil, comfrey, mustard greens, citrus trees, grasses, herbs, vegetables and plenty of Australian natives.

• Bees are particularly attracted to purple flowering plants.

They are also attracted to blue and yellow.

• Grow all your vegetables from open pollinated seed (also called heirloom seed or heritage seed), where the bee has to rub its body against the flower to pollinate it.

• Bees have to have water. They can land on lily pads, sand, rock or trees, but bees don’t swim, so the water has to be set up so that there is somewhere for them to land and drink or collect water.

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“People thought it was a goldfish bowl, and left the hive be.

Eventually they’d call and say ‘I’ve got a swarm up in a tree.’

That’s not smart. So I decided not to do that any more. And then Gary said, ‘Well, you can adopt a sheep, why not a beehive?’

That’s how it came to be.”

The Adopt a Beehive program is just part of Paula’s work protecting the bee population and providing food security for Australia.

“I’m implementing a next-generation beekeepers’ program. Like the farmers, we’re all in our 50s and 60s. So, there’s no succession planning for beekeepers. My aim is to harness the skills and youthfulness of younger people and teach them what I know, so that they can manage a sanctuary for me, or several sanctuaries, and spread out.”

Bee part of the buzz Paula West suggests three ways of supporting and maintaining Australia’s bee population: 1. Adopt a beehive. Sponsor a hive for the Hive Establishment Cost of $390 (the second and subsequent years your sponsorship fee is $88 per year). The hive will be located on one of Paula’s host farms, and maintained by her team of beekeepers. You will receive: • regular newsletters updating you on the progress of your bees • 8kg of natural, 100 per cent pure honey each year • Tasting Field Days during the honey season (September to December) 2. Become a host farm. A farm or large property could become a host farm. If you operate an organic, biodynamic, pesticide-free property, you will gain a little honey just by having Paula and her team locate and care for bees on your property.

3. Become a beekeeper. If you are over 15, you might like to learn more about beekeeping and become part of the network of beekeepers who support Paula in establishing and maintaining her national network of beehives.

Whilst Paula tends the hives on a host farm in Pomona, I watch from a safe distance. The bees flow up and over her in a dark storm as she lifts away the superbox and shows me the queen, surrounded by her subjects in the brood-box. A queen, she tells me, can lay up to 1000 eggs each summer. In commercial environments, queens are ‘retired’ after two years, but a good queen can live for up to eight years.

Paula pulls several combs out of the brood box and shows me the honey and all the bees performing their various tasks: fanning the hive, doing maintenance, removing waste, making wax, looking after the eggs, teaching the juveniles. The scent of the honey is sweet on the morning air.

Bees, Paula tells me, are extraordinarily intelligent and community-minded. No single bee values its own life above the survival of the hive.

“Sometimes we’ll come out of the paddock and it’s calm. It’s four in the afternoon and the air has settled. The day is quieting down. The birds are quiet. The air is quiet. And I think, isn’t this wonderful?

“Some of the people we’ve had helping us garden think I’m strange. They can’t feel it. They’re too new to it. It’s just lovely sometimes working, like with the bees, and seeing a magnificent tree, or an unusual flower. It’s really special – a great privilege – to be living on the land.” adoptabeehive.com.au FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Paula West of Adopt a Beehive.

ANNE EVERINGHAM

Voted as Best Cafe Restaurant & Best Breakfast Restaurant and winner of the People’s Choice Award 2012, Sirocco Noosa offers casual dining with uninterrupted river views.

Anne Everingham has long been recognised for her individual, creative flare. It is this jewellery designer’s distinct style that has earned her reputation as one of Australia’s top artisans.

Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner, tapas, with free WiFi, fully licensed and BYO wine.

A visit to Anne’s studio outside of Eumundi is a unique experience. For an appointment please call 07 5442 8051.

257 Gympie Terrace Noosaville • p 5455 6688 • www.sirocconoosa.com.au

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CULINARY CREATIONS

CULINARY CREATIONS CHEF PETER BRETTELL Photo Anastasia Kariofyllidis Restaurant WILD ROCKET @ MISTY’S

CRACKLED FREE RANGE PORK BELLY, SEARED SCALLOPS, GREEN BEAN SALAD, DRUNKEN POTATOES, CHILLI CARAMEL Serves 4

Ingredients Pork belly: 800g free range pork belly (look for 70:30 meat to fat ratio) Master stock: Knob of ginger 2 red chillies 300ml soy sauce 300ml water Drunken potatoes: 8 good size sabago potatoes 1 litre apple cider Chilli caramel: 200g palm sugar 75ml fresh lime juice 75ml Thai fish sauce 5 chillies, seeded and chopped finely Knob of ginger peeled and grated finely

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Green bean salad: 250g green beans, finely sliced 50g flaked almonds toasted lightly 10g Lilliput capers Italian parsley chopped roughly 8 cherry tomatoes, quartered 8 good-sized scallops

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Prepare pork, dr unken potatoes and ch illi caramel a day in advance.

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Pork belly: Bring all ingredients for master stock to the boil. Place belly in a shallow baking tray and cover with stock until just under the skin. Braise for four hours at 130°C. When cooked, gently turn pork belly onto a flat tray and press with 3 to 4kg weight.

Once cooled, score the skin with a sharp knife 1mm deep and cut into 150g portions.

Drunken potatoes: Slice potatoes on a Japanese mandolin. Layer into a roasting tray, seasoning each layer with salt and pepper.

Cover with cider and cook at 150°C for two hours or until potatoes are tender. Once cooked press with a 3kg weight until cool. Cut into 4cm squares and refrigerate until needed.

Chilli caramel: Bring palm sugar to the boil with water. When a slight nutty colour starts, add the lime juice, Thai fish sauce, ginger and chillies. Reduce to a thin syrup and chill.

Green bean salad: Blanche green beans in boiling water for 2 mins then add to all other ingredients. Season with salt and pepper.

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When ready to serve, fry the belly (skin down) and drunken potato caked in duck fat until golden brown and the skin on the pork has crackled nicely.

Place in the oven at 200°C for 10 mins.

In the meantime, warm salad through and sear scallops on a high heat for no longer than 1 minute on each side until golden brown. Drizzle chilli caramel sauce over the dish.

PHILOSOPHY Fresh, local, seasonal.

WINE TO MATCH Flying Mouton Gewürztraminer NZ. Available at Wild Rocket @ Misty’s, 142 Main Street, Montville.

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relaxed recipes

Sweet temptation Recipes Sally Trude Photos Anastasia Kariofyllidis

Honey is nature’s sweetest gift, the fruit of bees’ labour. Nothing is more natural, more adaptable and the honey makes these specially-prepared dishes taste like they have been kissed by heaven.

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< Baked honeyed apples Serves: 4 Prep time: 30 minutes 4 even-sized cooking apples 60g ground almonds 1/ 2 lemon, rind grated 30g sultanas 60g brown sugar 30g chopped walnuts or pecan nuts 2 tbsp marmalade 4 tbsp honey

Cut a thin slice from the stalk end of each apple. Hollow out each apple with a teaspoon, discarding core and pips. Dice removed flesh and mix with almonds, grated lemon rind, sultanas, brown sugar, nuts and marmalade. Fill apple shells generously with filling. Score peel lightly around the centre of the apples. Place in a buttered, shallow ovenproof dish and spoon honey over. Bake at 175°C for 30 minutes. Serve hot with custard, cream or ice cream.

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right here on the coast For the past 20 years, the Sunshine Coast has had a secret tropical oasis called the Spirit House which has become a food icon for lovers of Thai food.

Set in lush film-set gardens, the Spirit House restaurant is open every day.

From the moment you walk through the gates, you know you’re in for a special treat.

Focused on contemporary Asian cuisine with a predominant Thai influence, the Spirit House complex also encompasses a hands-on Cooking School, with daily classes that demystify Asian ingredients and cooking methods.

Pear, honey and almond tart Serves: 6 Prep time: 20 minutes 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry 1 tbsp caster sugar 2 tbsp ground almonds 30g butter 2 ripe William Bartlett pears 30g flaked almonds 2 tbsp honey

Preheat oven to 200°C. Lay pastry on baking sheet and prick the base all over with fork, leaving 2½ cm margin around the edges. Sprinkle the caster sugar and ground almonds on the base, leaving the margin clear.

Cut up the butter and dot over the almonds and caster sugar. Slice the pears and lay over the pastry, leaving the margin clear.

Sprinkle the top with flaked almonds and drizzle the honey over the top.

Bake in the top third of the oven for 20-25 minutes. Serve with cream or vanilla ice cream.

And if you enjoy overseas travel, why not join the Spirit House chefs on their boutique tag-along food tours to Thailand where they explore the hidden side of Thai cuisine and culture.

For stunning lunches or dinners, brushing up on your cooking skills, a wedding or function, why not gather some friends and make your way to 20 Ninderry Rd, Yandina - you’ll be glad you did.

Find out more at:

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Red skin potato salad with honey dill dressing Serves: 6 Prep time: 20 minutes

In large pot, boil whole potatoes in salted water until tender but firm. Drain and cool.

700g small red new potatoes 3 rashers bacon 1 medium onion, diced 6 tbsp honey 6 tbsp apple cider vinegar 1/ 2 tsp cornflour 1/ 2 tsp water 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped 1 bunch watercress, washed and chopped

Whilst potatoes are cooling, sautĂŠ bacon until crisp in large frying pan. Remove bacon and set aside.

Add onion to bacon drippings, cooking until soft (about three minutes).

Add honey and vinegar to pan; stir to combine and bring to a boil. Blend cornflour with water; stir into honey mixture. Cook until mixture thickens. Remove from heat.

Crumble bacon, then stir it and dill into the dressing. Cut cooled potatoes in half, leaving skins on.

In large bowl, combine potatoes and watercress. Pour dressing over salad and toss gently. Serve immediately.

Honey garlic meatballs Serves: 8 Prep time: 30 minutes 1kg mince meat 115g fine breadcrumbs 180ml milk 75g onion, finely chopped 2 eggs 1/ 4 tsp ground pepper 2 tsp salt 1 tbsp butter 5 cloves garlic, crushed 90ml tomato sauce (or 1/2 tomato sauce and 1/2 BBQ sauce) 1/ 2 cup honey 60ml soy sauce

Meatballs Combine mince, breadcrumbs, milk, onion, eggs, salt and pepper in a bowl.

Mix well with a fork. Roll into 2cm balls.

Place meatballs in a single layer on baking sheet. Bake at 250째C for 10-12 minutes.

Drain well.

Sauce Melt butter in saucepan and saute garlic until tender. Add tomato sauce (or tomato sauce and BBQ mixture), honey and soy sauce.

Bring to boil.

Place meatballs in lightly greased casserole dish. Pour sauce over the top. Bake at 180째C for 20-30 minutes.

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1 It wasn’t long ago that we wouldn’t be caught dead drinking pink.

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How times have changed. Rosé champagne is now a highlight of every champagne dinner I host, and connoisseurs can’t seem to get enough of it – so much so that Champagne is struggling to keep up supply. Fifteen years ago, less than one in 30 bottles of champagne was rosé. Now it’s one in 10, driven largely by unprecedented demand in the UK and US.

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Australia has been reluctant to jump on the rosé wave. Perhaps because of the mistaken idea that it’s sweeter than white champagne, or simply because it’s more expensive.

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We’ve grown up on Aussie sparkling rosé line-priced with its white equivalent, so when it comes time to trade up to champagne, we balk at paying an average of 30% more. And perhaps rightfully so. The Champenois justify this on the basis that it costs more to produce rosé than white champagne, but is it really this much more?

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Rosé is made in essentially the same manner as white champagne, with a subtle difference. Colour is achieved in one of three ways. The ‘Saignée’ method adds free-run juice from just-crushed red pinot noir or pinot meunier grapes to produce the finest, palest rosés, whilst the ‘limited maceration’ method produces darker, heavier wines through a quick soak on red grape skins. Most of the time, rosé is blended from white champagne and a tiny quantity of a red table wine. The addition is often just 5-10%, but it can be as much as 20%.

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It takes mature vines in a particularly warm site in Champagne to produce red wine for rosé, and yields are typically reduced to ensure full ripeness.

But even if the cost of producing red wine were as high as double that of the base white wine, an addition of 10% in the blend shouldn’t increase the cost of production by more than 10%.

Some houses get the economics right, and there are bargains to be found in the world of sparkling pink. There’s also more diversity on the shelves than ever, from the most delicate apéritif styles to powerfully structured wines, ready to tackle main course fare.

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The difference is instantly recognisable, because deeper colour in rosé champagne is a sure sign of greater intensity of flavour and structure.

Champagne rosé in clear bottles offers an insight into the style before you even pop the cork.

Why, then, are most bottled in dark green glass? Because if they’re not, they might taste like onions and garlic! ‘Lightstruck’ is a champagne fault in which exposure to daylight or fluorescent light causes champagne to develop off, vegetal characters. Dark green bottles naturally filter most of the problematic light, but clear glass bottles block just a tiny fraction.

Champagne can deteriorate even in just a few minutes in the sun.

Some champagne houses ship clear glass bottles in cellophane wrap, gift boxes or cotton bags for protection. Always keep it sealed until the moment you serve it, and never buy a clear glass bottle of champagne that’s been sitting exposed on a shelf or in an illuminated fridge.

Tyson Stelzer’s new book The Champagne Guide 2014-2015 is released this month.

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1 Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Rosé NV, $14 Don’t be a label snob. Jacob’s Creek is one of my favourite rosés for entertaining the masses. It’s a refreshing and creamy froth of strawberry and cherry fruit. Best of all, it’s not too sweet.

5 André Clouet Brut Rosé NV, $75

2 Jansz Tasmania Premium Rosé NV, $30 Talented Jansz winemaker Natalie Fryar calls herself a rosé colour snob because she can’t stand hot pink.

To guarantee an elegant hue, she cleverly and unusually adds the colour to her silky rosé after it’s matured rather than before.

6 Louis Roederer Brut Rosé 2008, $135

André Clouet is the finest grower in two of Champagne’s most powerful pinot noir villages, and wields the variety to full advantage in a rosé that epitomises elegance in the midst of generous intensity.

2008 was the finest vintage in Champagne in more than a decade, charging this cuvée with high-tensile structure and vivid, breathtaking delicacy. It hasn’t looked this impressive since 1996.

In the world of champagne rosé, this is a small price to pay, but don’t be put off by this or its gaudy pink label, because this is a beautifully elegant rosé. Brand new in Australia this month.

7 Bollinger Rosé Brut NV, $160 Bollinger Rosé has only been around for five years and has already doubled in production. Just 5% red wine transforms Bollinger’s famous Special Cuvée into a rosé of strength, depth and surprisingly effortless grace.

4 J. Dumangin Fils Brut Premier Cru

8 Krug Rosé Brut NV, $650 The most luxurious

3 Lanson Rose Label Brut Rosé NV, $60

and decadent of all champagne houses, the ethereal restraint and delicate air of rosé seems a paradox for Krug. Detailed intricacy dances with light-footed grace on a stage of epic complexity.

Rosé NV, $60 Introducing one of Champagne’s most finely crafted and refined rosés at a refreshingly affordable price. It’s lively, fruit-fresh, crisp, tangy and tastes like just-picked strawberries.

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60 KEEPING IT REAL Jacqui and Luke Humble share their very personal story.

66 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Ossie and Lurline Apps have been married for 69 years and have shared a lifetime of love.

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Keeping it Real

Sunshine after Rain

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It’s a sultry September afternoon and rain is bucketing on Noosaville’s picturesque waterfront.

But this is no ordinary stormy Sunshine Coast spring day.

In place of dark skies and ominous cloud shines bright and beautiful sunlight.

It’s the perfect storm for bride and groom Jacqui Robinson and Luke Humble.

“I arrived by the water in a gondola and as soon as I got out the rain stopped,” Jacqui says. “I love the rain and the timing was just perfect. It gave everything this beautiful shine.”

The storm on Jacqui and Luke’s big day was a perfect metaphor for their whirlwind romance. Engaged in six months and married nearly a year later, the couple met after Jacqui interviewed for a graphic design position with Luke’s burgeoning branding business.

UK native Luke says he knew Jacqui was the one from the moment he met her.

“It sounds like something out of a movie, but I just knew,” he says.

“There was a spark from our first meeting. Soon after, I had a few friends I was going out with each weekend and I invited Jacqui to come out with us.

“That night we spent the whole night talking. We went to a friend’s place and talked on the couch until the sun came up.”

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“I went and checked out a beach, found the particular spot and timed our arrival for the sunset at five past five,” Luke says.

“I walked her out onto the beach, got down on one knee and started pouring my heart out and she kept on interrupting me – she thought I was joking. Then she realised I was serious. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bigger Cheshire Cat smile.”

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day. Delicate crystals hung from tree branches, guests flew in from all corners of the globe and a raft of whacky dress-ups lay in wait for reception-goers to snap themselves in.

“We bought a digital polaroid camera, a whole bunch of props and set up a corner where people could take photos,” Jacqui says. “We also provided an exit survey for guests. It’s a form where you fill out questions like ‘where do you think the couple will be in five years time’ and ‘favourite part of the ceremony’. It was a snapshot that we really enjoyed reading back on afterward.”

The couple even kicked off their first dance to a little-known1960s cult classic.

“There’s a song called Hard to be Humble,” Luke says. “With my last name being Humble, we threw a sidewinder and kicked off our first dance with it. Everyone burst out laughing.

“It faded out after 20 seconds and then we went into our first dance song.”

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“We had a padlock engraved with our names on it, locked it to the bridge and threw the keys over to the water,” Luke says. “It signifies the locking of everlasting love.”

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war romance leads to endless

love WORDS AARON WYNNE

When Ossie Apps returned home from World War II after being away for three years, he could hardly wait to be reunited with his fiancée Lurline Warner.

His plan was as simple as it was romantic: show up unannounced where Lurline was stationed with the Australian Women’s Army Service in Townsville and surprise his beautiful wife-to-be. The only problem was, she didn’t recognise him.

Ossie’s grandfather, settled on a picturesque piece of land on the Maroochy River.

The property is now where Ossie, now 89, and Lurline, 89, call home along with their street, Apps Road, named after Ossie himself.

The couple has been married for 69 years and are proud they have managed to remain in the area.

“The place was obviously so different back then, but the little church we were married in is still there,” Lurline says.

“Everyone was so excited that he was back after so long and the people I was working with told me to leave, go back home and get married,” Lurline says. “Obviously I didn’t let on that I didn’t even recognise the guy at first.”

They first met at a dance at the Yandina School of Arts when they were in their teens. Ossie was a soldier on compassionate leave from New Guinea to see his father, who was very sick, and Lurline was playing in a dance band with her brother.

The pair returned home to Yandina and were married just two weeks later.

“There were a lot of soldiers around the area at the time on leave just like I was,” Ossie says.

Ossie’s cane farming family has a long history in the area after migrating from Maclean, New South Wales in 1909. With seven restless boys and in the search for rich farmland, Ned Apps,

Lurline and Ossie ooze an endearing no-nonsense attitude and this seems to have remained a constant throughout their long marriage.

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“He couldn’t believe it when we told him we were on our honeymoon.”

Ossie and Lurline went on to have three children – Melvin, Rodney and Shaneen, all brought up on the same patch of land Ned Apps settled on all those years ago. Standing atop the property’s ridgeline, it’s easy to imagine why Ossie’s grandfather selected this spot for his home and why Ossie and Lurline have never left. The three-hectare property shows off beautiful panoramic views of the Maroochy River and south towards the hinterland, although the grass “needs a good drink at the moment”, as Lurline points out.

“Our son and I organised to have the old farm house that was on the property moved in one piece on the back of a truck,” Ossie says. “It was a big job at the time but good to see the old house is still going.”

The pair, never one to kick up a fuss, lived in the garage for almost 12 months whilst the current house was being renovated.

“I enjoyed it to be honest,” Lurline laughs. “We had a good little set up and there wasn’t too much to keep clean although every now and then I did throw the old dish water over someone walking past the garage door by mistake.”

Lurline now spends most of her time in the yard tending to her fruit and vegetables.

“The only reason it took us a couple of weeks to get married after we came home was because it took that long for the minister to get his paperwork sorted out,” Lurline laughs. “Although I will say I think my mother must have known what was going to happen because she had already started making the wedding cake before we were even home.

“And on the wedding day we had 100 people crammed into the church and anyone that couldn’t fit in was watching through the windows.”

Whilst Ossie doesn’t say much he can’t help but grin as Lurline recounts their early days.

“We even picked up a hitchhiker on the way to our honeymoon,” Lurline says as Ossie chuckles. “It was pouring rain and this poor chap was standing on the side of the road and helped us open the old railway gates at Cooroy. We couldn’t just let him stand there and get soaked, so we let him jump in the back.

“We just love it here,” Lurline says. “We have a lot of memories and never want to leave.”

The property has even played host to three weddings over the years.

“People just love the garden area and head down to the river for photographs and all of that,” Lurline says. “A bit different to our wedding!

“Our photographer could only take two photos, one of us and one of the family because that was all the film that he had.”

And when asked how they have managed to maintain a happy marriage for almost 70 years, Lurline replies with a typical nononsense summation of their time together.

“Ossie was always working so hard in the cane fields with his f ather and I was always so busy looking after the kids,” she says.

“To be honest, we never really had the energy to start a fight with each other.”

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Colour it up If you’ve seen one bouquet you’ve seen them all … or at least that’s what it feels like sometimes. But Liz Smith from A Sculpted Leaf says the trend this season is moving away from all-white bouquets and embracing pastels with pops of hot pink or purple. Since summer is all about having fun, she suggests mixing up different foliage and a variety of blooms. And whilst brides are sticking to traditional bouquets, flowers are a really great way of adding colour to your big day, so colourful pomander balls and flower crowns are hot like a sunrise.

The best blooms to use? “Lisianthus blooms come in a variety of colours and have good longevity, and stephanotis is making a big comeback, especially in flower crowns,” Liz says. asculptedleaf.com.au

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Disappearing i n k Tattoos: They can be amazing works of art or regrettable reminders of that time in your life when downing Vodka Cruisers was, like, so classy. You don’t have to go under the needle to get some tasteful and memorable-in-a-good-way, wedding day ink. Designer Pepper Baldwin creates delicate, vintage-style temporary tattoos and can whip up a bespoke range from scratch or incorporate your pre-existing designs or illustrations. You might not want to sign your partner’s name across your heart for real but a little bit of (fake) ink might just help seal the deal. pepperink.com.au

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If you’re going to make a fashion statement with your shoes it may as well be an exclamation mark, right?

We’re head over heels for these Jimmy Choo designed Tartini stiletto suede pumps, encrusted with hundreds of dazzling pavé crystals for the ultimate in wedding day glam. Think 120mm super skinny heels (4.7” old school speak) with a sleek silhouette and always-in-chic pointy toes, perfectly suited to any style of dress you care to pair. Order online at Jimmy Choo’s bridal boutique and shine on baby. jimmychoo.com

Instant images Let’s face it, disposable cameras are more trouble than they’re worth and trying to compile everyone’s happy snaps of your big day is just another ‘to do’ that you shouldn’t have to worry about. Put the word out to your guests to download Capsule, so everyone’s smartphone photos are automatically compiled into an album that everyone can enjoy. You can also use a special hashtag to pull in Instagram shots.

Once you’ve giggled and ‘ahh’ed over your favourites, you can download the images in high resolution, and print to your heart’s desire. trycapsule.com

Mane games Achieving your dream hair by your wedding day doesn’t need a Commando-style training regime, but Mel and Jenny from Dot & Birdie have a few smart tips that will guarantee you lush locks, worthy of your own shampoo commercial. Rule one: regular trims and treatments in the months leading up to the big day. Maintenance is everything, so as well as keeping a regular date with your stylist, a nourishing home hair care program with some quality products will do wonders – this is not a time for the old 2-in-1. Highlights will enhance any texture in your style, whilst richer solid colours are perfect for extra gloss and shine. dotandbirdie.com.au

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gorgeous There are not many days when you get to make as dramatic an entrance as your wedding day (save for that high school reunion when you totally owned it and stared down that bully from Year 8), so you want a dress with serious impact. Rachel Gilbert’s second-only bridal collection offers all of the best parts of her eveningwear designs, and so much more.

Her effortless mix of structure and classic lines, combined with elegant fabrics and intricate embellishment adds a little bit of a rock star vibe to every gown. The slinky skirt and slight peplum flick of her Harlow gown is so stoptraffic gorgeous, you’ll be looking for an excuse to wear it again and again. rachelgilbert.com

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Innovative invitations If you’re not too keen on spending hours and hours (or a big chunk of your budget) on your invitations, local designer Michelle Weller’s “Off The Rack” range provides all the beauty of bespoke design, with the ease of a click and buy shopping experience. With eight key designs to choose from, you can pick and mix the pieces you need and Michelle will customise to suit. The Plantation Collection just screams summer beach wedding and incorporates a cute RSVP postcard to make it easy-as-pie for guests to respond. standtalldesign.com.au

Caravan of love The name is Jenkins. Mr Jenkins. And this is one smooth operator you’ll want to add to your wedding guest list.

An adorable, restored 1952 caravan by day, Mr Jenkins transforms into the coolest mobile bar you’ve ever SEEN with plenty of Instagrammable accessories. Mr Jenkins can roll up and park at pretty much any event space and tailor a package to suit your special day. He’s fitted with a solid wood bar, two large ice sinks, two small bar fridges and a cute little leather seating area, complete with crystal chandelier. You provide the booze. Mr Jenkins provides the service (and plenty of cute vintage touches). hellomrjenkins.com

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STYLE and grace Even die-hard city slickers would have to agree nothing beats earthy country styling for a romantic wedding feel. Nicole Hopkins from Splash Events has the following tips to make sure your rustic-inspired wedding is at its most glamorous: • Use your location for inspiration — a space where the creative senses meet a blank canvas.

• Use lots of textures such as natural linens, burlap, vintage vessels filled with natures organics and garden hand-picked floral.

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Judy Copley was wearing a $33 dress on her own wedding day – and now she is rapidly building a name for herself making handcrafted bespoke gowns for others.

Whilst the beautiful dresses are the result of countless hours sat perched at a sewing machine in Caloundra, it’s the dreaming and planning phase that really excites Judy.

“I’ve always created and designed basically for as long as I can remember,” Judy says. “I enjoy sewing but for me that’s really a necessity for what I do. It’s the design process that I love and really can’t get enough of.”

Judy might work with high-end products, but she could not be more down to earth. Her smile is infectious and she openly says, “I do gowns better than I do words”. Raised in the Northern Territory, Judy says the laid-back lifestyle there couldn’t be further removed from the work she does now.

“It’s very casual up there and I guess there’s not a lot of glamour for a little girl growing up,” she says. “Maybe it’s a subconscious dream I’ve always had to work with glamorous dresses like I do. To be honest, I just love it.”

Creating a dream dress for a bride-to-be is an onerous responsibility, and whilst Judy says she is conscious of that, it’s not something she worries about.

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but I don’t know, I just don’t really focus on that. I go to these weddings and look at the flowers and think ‘wow I would hate to be in charge of that’ but for some reason creating the dress doesn’t have that effect on me. I just do it.”

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Judy originally pursued her love of design by making things for herself as a young woman along with her sisters and her kids. She started out designing clothes but found it was far too competitive and not commercially viable.

“With regular fashion and clothes it’s just so tough, you know,” she says. “The internet has made things so cheap and it might take me a few hours to make something along with all the materials and you can just buy it online for next to nothing.”

Creating one-off wedding gowns was different and Judy says she is glad to have carved out and settled into a niche.

“You know, I make everything myself with my own two hands,” she says. “They come to my little studio, we can sit down and talk through features and they can come back for as many fittings as they like.

“Things that take time are not really around that much any more I guess because most people want everything right now. As long as there are people who still want that kind of bespoke dress, there will always be a market for what I do and what I produce.”

The ability to customise everything from the design itself right down to the thread used to hold it together is special.

“I did one gown that has 1400 fresh water pearls all individually attached to the dress,” Judy says. “I can hand dye lace and ribbons and use heirloom laces to give every dress that personal touch.

“I made a dress for my niece where we incorporated my mum’s hand-knitted lace and her grandmother’s ribbon off her nightie, which really made it personal and something she can treasure.”

It is clear these are more than just dresses to Judy. She takes on a real sense of responsibility and pride with every design and says it’s “not because she has to but because she wants to”.

As her business, Judy Copley Bridal, continues to grow she is conscious about not losing the personal touch that her clients love.

“It’s tough because I really don’t want to lose that one-on-one relationship I can build with the women who come and see me,” she says. “Some gowns can take months to create and that means endless fittings so I can really get to know the clients and I feel like we become good friends.

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“And I’ve been lucky, I’ve honestly never had a ‘bridezilla’,” she says with a smile.

Judy says she never really expected her business to “take off like it has”. Her clientele is now spread throughout Queensland and she has even started to gain interest and enquiries from the United States.

“Word of mouth is everything in my business and it has really taken me such a long way already,” Judy says. “I don’t really understand the online side of it that well to be honest but that’s where a lot of my interest internationally has come from. People just seem to share pictures and one of my designs got 3000 likes on a US site which has led to a lot of enquiries.”

Despite all the attention, the original “little dream” Judy had for her business doesn’t seem to have wavered.

“I really want to keep doing the bespoke work that I do now but also look at producing a limited edition range as well,” she says.

“It will mean I’ll have something that I can reproduce a bit easier, faster and at a cheaper price.

“I also really love doing the fashion shows and photo shoots that I do now, but it is getting really busy at the moment so it will be interesting to see where everything goes.”

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As Judy looks around the room at the dresses on racks and piles of bridal magazines, it’s clear that no matter how big the business gets the personal design will also be at its heart.

“I’ve always just tried to do it right,” she says. “More than anything I don’t want to let anyone down. The girls that come in here have all really trusted me. That’s honestly such a privilege and an honour when you think about it.”

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BANANA BLUE Gingers Boutique, Shop 2, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616 or gingersboutique.com.au; OV Boutique, Shop 4, The Dunes, 27 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4505 BELLA LIDO bellalido.com.au or 0404 018 767; Willow & Bird, Shop 13, Rovera Plaza cnr Cotton Tree Parade and King Street, Cotton Tree, 5479 1002; Tangerine Beach, Noosa Marina, Shop 9a, Parkyn Court, Tewantin, 0420 825 925; Shop 7, Noosa Sheraton Resort, Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 0420 825 925 or tangerinebeach.com.au BOOM SHANKER Soul Diva, 45 Burnett St, Buderim, 5456 4111 or souldiva.com.au BRAX Klingers, 29 First Ave, Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au BRIONY MARSH Burnish, Shop 1 Sandcastles, 3 River Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5478 0885 or burnish.com.au; summer&salt, Shop 2, 214 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5448 3700 or summerandsalt.com.au CADARRA Tangerine Beach, Noosa Marina, Shop 9a, Parkyn Court, Tewantin, 0420 825 925; Shop 7, Noosa Sheraton Resort, Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 0420 825 925 or tangerinebeach.com.au CARMEL’S DESIGNS Carmel’s Designs & Homewares, Shop 20 Peninsular, The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 6946 or 21B James Street, Burleigh Heads, 5535 9255 or Shop 1, 212 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5471 3332 or carmelsdesigns.com.au CAROLE TRETHEWAY Carole Tretheway Design, Shop 8b, Arcadia Walk, Noosa Heads, 5447 3255 or ct-design.com.au COUNTRY ROAD Myer or Country Road stores, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore, 5443 4133 or sunshineplaza.com CUSHE Get Set Footwear, 82A Bulcock Street, Caloundra, 5492 7185 or 230 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5447 1755 or getsetfootwear.com.au EB & IVE Watermelon Red, Shop 12, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach, 5473 9550 or watermelonred.com.au; Elements at Montville, 38 Kondalilla Falls Road, Montville, 5478 6212 or elementsmontville.com.au; Giddy and Grace, Shop 2, 1 Maple Street, Maleny, 5494 3636 or giddyandgrace.com

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MELA PURDIE OV Boutique, Shop 4, The Dunes, 27 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4505 MOKO Gingers Boutique, Shop 2, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616 or gingersboutique.com.au; The Frameyard, Shop 2, Hudspith House, Corner Brisbane Rd and Walan St, Mooloolaba, 5444 2895 MONTIQUE Essential Style Boutique, Shop 7, 23 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4785 MORRISON Minx & Max, Shop 3, 18 Lanyana Way, Noosa Junction, 5447 3366 or minxandmax.com.au; summer&salt, Shop 2, 214 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5448 3700 or summerandsalt.com.au; Soul Diva, 45 Burnett St, Buderim, 5456 4111 or souldiva.com.au; Myer, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore, 5443 4133 or sunshineplaza.com; Carmel’s Designs & Homewares, Shop 20, Peninsular, The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 6946 or 21B James Street, Burleigh Heads, 5535 9255 or Shop 1, 212 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5471 3332 or carmelsdesigns.com.au MOSS & SPY OV Boutique, Shop 4, The Dunes, 27 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4505; Minx & Max, Shop 3, 18 Lanyana Way, Noosa Junction, 5447 3366 or minxandmax.com.au; Gingers Boutique, Shop 2, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616 or gingersboutique.com.au MOZI Watermelon Red, Shop 12, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach, 5473 9550 or watermelonred.com.au; Giddy and Grace, Shop 2, 1 Maple Street, Maleny, 5494 3636 or giddyandgrace.com MY GLOBAL HUNTER Turkish artisan gold plated amazonite necklace (page 77).

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NATASHYA MANFIELD Miss Manfield, Shop 10, Sandcastles, 1 River Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 5004 or missmanfield. com; Natashya Manfield, Shop 2, Sandcastles, 1 River Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 0614 or natashyamanfield.com NO EXCESS Klingers, 29 First Ave Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au NY2K 9ct white gold blue topaz and diamond pendant (page 89). Rovera Plaza, King Street, Cotton Tree, 5443 1955 or ny2k.com.au OPALS DOWN UNDER 18k white gold white crystal opal pendant featuring diamonds and 3.69ct Coober Pedy white crystal opal (page 82 ). 11 Ballantyne Court, Palmview, 5494 5400 or opalsdownunder.com.au PRATTEN Giddy and Grace, Shop 2, 1 Maple Street, Maleny, 5494 3636 or giddyandgrace.com SAO PAULO Gingers Boutique, Shop 2, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616 or gingersboutique.com.au SEAFOLLY Myer or Sunburn stores, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore, 5443 4133; Mermaids, Shop 4b, Oasis centre, Noosa Heads, 5474 9722; Sea Elements, 30 Hastings St, Noosa Heads, 5447 4126 or David Low Way, Coolum, 5471 6700 SWIMMS Klingers, 29 First Ave, Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au TANGERINE BEACH Noosa Marina, Shop 9a, Parkyn Court, Tewantin, 0420 825 925; Shop 7, Noosa Sheraton Resort, Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 0420 825 925 or tangerinebeach.com.au THE OPAL CUTTER Ebb Tide cuff from Daniel Bentley (page 82). Shop 4, The Pottery, 171-183 Main Street, Montville, 5442 9598 or opalcutter.com.au TOM & TEDDY Klingers, 29 First Ave Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au TSONGA Get Set Footwear, 82A Bulcock Street, Caloundra, 5492 7185 or 230 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5447 1755 or getsetfootwear.com.au VERGE Minx & Max, Shop 3, 18 Lanyana Way, Noosa Junction, 5447 3366 or minxandmax.com.au ZULU & ZEPHYR Alterior Motif, Shop 9, Rovera Plaza, Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5443 3406 or Shop 7, Noosa Cinema Centre, 29 Sunshine Beach Road, Noosa Heads, 5412 2803 or alteriormotif.com.au Natashya Manfield

BOLD VISIONARIES

Drawing on joy words ALEX FYNES-CLINTON photos ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS

There are no bounds to the joy a simple drawing can conjure.

A painting lovingly prepared by a small child, a pattern sketched out whilst talking on the phone to a friend – even a simple smiley face doodled on a greeting card.

Coolum designer Tani Klein knows this better than most. The dedicated mother of two has taken her pen and paper creations out of her home and into the wide world of children’s fashion, turning heads with her charming designs.

“I was always secretly creative, but I’ve never taken an art class,” Tani says. “My husband and I moved over from New Zealand with my two-year-old daughter at the height of the global financial crisis.

I was a secondary school teacher and couldn’t find work.

“I’d always loved illustrating and eventually started printing some of my drawings onto my daughter’s tops. It got such a good response from people out in public that we decided to open a market stall. It took me completely by surprise.”

It was then the seeds of Tani’s clothing label Doodlebug were planted. With the encouragement of her husband, she began printing her designs onto children’s shirts and set up shop at Peregian Markets.

Parents fell head over heels for her original, homemade creations.

“I still don’t know how I got the guts to get out there and do it, but people loved the designs,” she says. “I was just running down to the Sunshine Plaza, buying blank shirts and screen-printing on them.

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Tani had some professional experience in film and television working in costume design before she became a teacher.

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“I really liked the process of creating a character, so I guess that had some influence in terms of my artistic direction,” she says.

“Eventually I was approached by a local retailer who wanted to stock the clothes and the journey hasn’t stopped since.”

Doodlebug has gone from strength to strength since its humble beginnings at Peregian and is now stocked proudly by nearly 50 retailers across six countries.

Tani has worked relentlessly to give her label the chance to shine, buckling down on the direction of her first collection when most women would be winding down – through her second pregnancy.

“I wanted Doodlebug to be more than just prints on T-shirts,” she says. “I don’t like mini-me children. There are a lot of successful children’s fashion brands that just look like they’ve taken adults clothes and shrunk them down.

“It was a total experiment and there was a lot of gut instinct involved.”

Doodlebug clothing is completely eco-friendly, using 100 per cent bamboo fabric.

Whilst other designers would crow loud and proud about such an achievement, Tani’s view on the label’s environmentally friendly status is much more modest.

“The eco-friendly thing was never a conscious decision. I never thought ‘I’m going to set out to save the environment’,” she says.

“This generation is eco-friendly by nature. It’s something we have to think about in our daily lives and it’s a natural extension to run a business with it in mind.

“As a crop, bamboo grows like wildfire so it’s completely sustainable and doesn’t need pesticides. It’s naturally organic. As a fabric it’s anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, UV protected, temperature regulated, breathable and recommended by the eczema foundation. It’s perfect for kids’ clothing.”

Tani also knew she had to focus on wearability if mums were going to get behind her label. >

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“A lot of what I do comes from knowing children’s bodies so well and knowing how to make clothes fit,” she says. “We do practical things, like designing clothes to fit over cloth nappies.

A lot of mums these days are using modern cloth nappies that your normal Bonds clothes don’t fit over.

“Doodlebug is all about comfort, practicality and letting kids be kids in a stylish way.”

With her children Mila, 7, and Oscar, 3, at prime Doodlebug age, designing her two annual collections (spring/summer and autumn/winter) has become a true family affair.

“My husband and I create the designs. I do the girly kind of stuff and he does the nautical stuff,” she says. “My daughter is also now at the age where she’s very opinionated about the whole process. If I design a dress she isn’t into, she’ll look straight at me and say ‘Mum, I don’t like that!’ I’m basically designing clothes for my own kids. They don’t wear anything unless it’s comfortable.

“I know that if they try something on and it doesn’t sit well, it doesn’t get bought, so I keep that in mind when designing the collections.”

Whilst she now finds herself light-years away from the classrooms she once called home, Tani feels she has found her true calling in fashion.

She is delighted by her progress and is enjoying the process of growing with the brand.

“I’m completely passionate about it,” she says. “The best way to learn is practically and I can see myself getting better, which is really satisfying. Each season you can see your style developing.

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“As soon as you’ve finished designing one collection you’ve got to photograph it, make the look book, sell it to the wholesale market and retail market. It’s such hard work, but I just want to get working on the next one as soon as possible.”

The pursuit of her design dreams has also helped Tani to truly find herself: once anxious about where she would fit in the big wide world of fashion, she is now comfortable and proud to call herself a designer. She says she owes a lot to her husband, who gave her the confidence to pursue her vision full speed ahead.

“I was terrified initially – in a lot of ways, I still am – but you grow with each step,” she says. “There’s nothing better than going out in public, spotting Doodlebug kids and thinking ‘I dreamt that up and that kid is rocking it’.”

The Doodlebug Spring/Summer 2013-14 collection is out now.

To browse the range visit Watermelon Red, Shop 12, Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach or buy online at ilovedoodlebug.com.au FOR EXTRA SALT to see more photos of Tani Klein or to WIN a Doodlebug Baby Essentials pack or cherry wood stationery pack visit saltmagazine.com.au

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Sweet beauty

WORDS CELESTE MITCHELL photo anastasia kariofyllidis

Brooke Shields. John Howard. Frida Kahlo.

Anything immediately come to mind?

The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but eyebrows can either be the equivalent of scary, untamed ’70s drapes, or sleek Danish-designed shutters. If there’s anywhere you don’t want a one-size-fits-all model it’s your face, so before you allow anyone wielding a pair of tweezers and a spatula piled with hot wax near you, it pays to know what makes a good brow.

Admittedly, I haven’t let anyone touch mine since the sothin-they-need-a-burger brow period of 2004. Looking back on photos, there is a constant look of surprise on my face (and no, it wasn’t Botox), which is why I’ve stuck to the trusty DIY tweezer job ever since.

But today I’m getting out of my comfort zone. I’m entrusting a designer brow pro – Libby DeVaux from Asante Spa in Coolum Beach. When I step inside the African-inspired haven and meet Libby, my eyes immediately dart to her eyebrows: nice shape, very tidy and full-bodied – tick, tick, tick! And after chatting for a little while, it’s obvious this lady knows what she’s talking about.

Over plucking is the most common cause for frustration and complaint, Libby tells me. A self-confessed ‘brow nut’, Libby has made it her duty to primp and preen the brows of Sunshine Coasters for more than 14 years and with word spreading, she even has devotees making the pilgrimage from Brisbane to be put under her discerning gaze. Like any educational process, there’s homework too – Libby puts all her clients on a custom-made training program to achieve the perfect shape.

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The ultimate perfectionist, Libby tackles each brow like it is a puzzle to be solved. Whilst I’ve just opted for a brow tidy today (and, much to my relief, apparently I’ve got good brows), Libby loves the chance to tackle a blank canvas, or a bushy canvas.

“I love it when it’s a full brow, when there’s just so much hair there and you can really create something,” she says.

As she works her magic, plucking, trimming and constantly stepping back to compare the two brows, the hand mirror I’m holding reflects an artist at work – my brows are the canvas, the tweezers and brush her palette, and an application of mineral makeup the finishing touch. Add a side-tipped beret and my imagined French painter metaphor would be complete. The result? Magnifique!

WHERE IS IT? Asante Spa, Shop 5/7-13 Beach Road, Coolum Beach. 5446 5229 or asantespa.com.au WHY IS IT SPECIAL? The attention to detail and personalised treatment style allows you to relax, assured you’re in good hands.

WHICH TREATMENT WAS ENJOYED? A brow style design and lift, which includes a consultation, brow wax, new shape, lash and brow tint and colour, and light mineral make up application ($55) is the ultimate for brow-virgins, but I had the brow wax tidy (from $25) and full-leg sugar waxing ($60).

FINAL TIPS? Don’t be tempted to touch the tweezers or razor at home in between visits. The results are worth the wait.

Maybe it’s the vulnerable position I’m in, or maybe I’m a glutton for punishment because when Libby asks innocently if I’ve heard of ‘sugaring’, the next thing I know I’m looking at a pot of toffee.

Golden and glossy, it smells sugary sweet and stretches and rolls into a tacky ball between Libby’s gloved fingers.

As well as being so natural you could eat it – a mix of sugar, water, lemon juice and xanthan gum – the ‘sugar’ is heated to a lower temperature and is easier to work with than wax. As Libby rolls and rips away, she tells me how sugaring pulls the hair out in the direction of growth rather than against it, preventing breakage and nasty ingrowns. And because it grabs the hair right from the root, it works a charm even if you’ve only shaved a few days before.

I can’t help but think if Veruca Salt were here right now, she’d put her hands on her hips and demand to “have some sugaring now, daddy!”

This method is nothing new. In fact, it’s an ancient technique of hair removal dating back as far as 1900BC, when milk baths were all the rage. And hey, if it was good enough for Cleopatra, I’m sold.

Telling someone you’re headed to the spa for some sugaring sounds a whole lot more glamorous than any ol’ waxing appointment. And if it stands up to its promises – of being less painful, faster, and not so messy since one good dollop of the toffee-like substance can be used over and over again on your body – then I may just ditch the razor for good.

After a thorough ‘sugaring’, I walk out of Asante with the smoothest pins I’ve ever had and a red-carpet entryway to my soul in the eyebrow stakes. Brooke Shields, eat your heart out.

The focus shifts to my legs.

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style session WORDS KARINA EASTWAY PHOTOS ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS

There’s a story behind every name and smyths inc. is no exception: a hair salon stamped with the name of its founder Colin Smyth more than 25 years ago in what was then a sleepy version of Noosa’s bustling Hastings Street.

Taking ownership seven years ago and adding “inc.” to the name by way of marking the new beginning, Cameron MacGowan and partner Liz Heaton quickly expanded the business to two centrally located hair salons in Noosa and Noosaville.

It doesn’t take long before I’m settled in front of the mirror with a steaming coffee and shortbread and a blur of activity behind me as the staff tend to clients. The Noosa salon has space for just five chairs compared to Noosaville’s 11 but I enjoy the vibrancy the smaller salon takes on as a result.

It’s the Hastings Street Noosa salon I’m visiting today for a colour, cut and indulgence treatment and I’m more than a little bit excited about getting started. From what I’ve learnt of the smyths inc. brand, it’s more than just about hairdressing.

Shannyn will be looking after my colour today and we decide on two shades of gold/blonde foils to complement my already sunlightened hair. Not only is Shannyn an expert colourist, she also runs the training program for smyths’ three apprentices, with the added emphasis on making sure classes are fun.

“It’s all about how we treat people and contribute to building the community. We’re here to enjoy ourselves and wanted to create salons where people stop in to say hi,” Cameron says.

With 20 years’ experience in the UK including styling through the iconic punk era and a host of celebrity clients, Cameron and Liz have no shortage of experience and passion for hairdressing between them but what they’ve bought to the salons is an attitude that sets it apart – relaxed, approachable and above all playful.

“We measure our wealth in time,” Cameron explains.

It’s written all over the friendly manner of the smyths inc. team as one by one I’m introduced to Shannyn, Kellie and Sarah who’ll be working their magic on me today.

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Whilst Shannyn goes through the process of placing the foils, we chat about her love of teaching the trainees in the evening once the customers have come and gone. She says the staff have become very close, saying they’re more like family than co-workers. To prove her point, Shannyn hands me an iPad with links to smyths’ social media feeds containing photos and videos of the staff enjoying each other’s company. It’s a quirk that works.

After waiting for the foils to set, I head to the basin for a rinse and indulgence treatment courtesy of Sarah, who is half way through her apprenticeship. It’s something she’s always dreamed of doing, growing up in her mother’s hair salon in country NSW and she radiates a natural down-to-earth charm.

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WHERE IS IT? Shop 2, Ocean Breeze, 52 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads 5447 4422 or Shop 22, Islander Resort, 187 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville 5449 8877 or smythsinc.com WHAT IS SPECIAL? smyths inc. specialises in quality hairdressing including cuts, colour and styles for all ages with an emphasis on personal attention and a mantra of exceeding expectations. The salons also cater for wedding parties and group bookings.

WHICH TREATMENT WAS ENJOYED? A three-hour appointment including foils to lighten and highlight the hair followed by a rinse, shampoo and inner-effect indulgence treatment. The hair was then cut and styled using Goldwell products. $260 FINAL TIPS Set aside as much time as advised for the treatment to fully enjoy the smyths inc. experience. Then make sure you’ve organised a lunchtime catch up with friends or dinner date with someone special after your visit.

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After applying an indulgent hair treatment, a generous head massage follows whilst I sink gradually into the massaging chair and further into complete relaxation.

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I develop salon crush as I’m offered another coffee, shortbread and a selection of glossy magazines to pass the time.

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With hair now lightened and conditioned, it’s time for a style cut, and Kellie re-introduces herself as we discuss options. I’m thinking of going short as I have increasingly frequent exposure to the summer sun and ocean dips.

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Kellie is instantly likeable, with a captivating enthusiasm for life.

Whilst my hair is shaped into an A-line bob, we chat about her tree-change to the Sunshine Coast, where she and her husband have already gathered a farm-enviable assortment of animals including a regular salon talking point, her pot-bellied pig called Audrey.

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Using Goldwell styling products, Kellie blow-dries my hair to model-like perfection and I’m in awe of both the transformation and how enjoyable my time’s been in the salon – almost like catching up with friends.

In a delightfully enchanting way, I feel I’ve been smyth-ed.

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Parent power WORDS LINDA READ

Parenting could well be the toughest job on the planet.

It’s stressful, badly paid, has high and ongoing hidden costs, and you can never quit once you’ve started. With no formal qualifications required, it also means that most people are woefully unprepared before they start.

On the upside, it offers the experience of unbridled joy and deep selfless love. In fact, it is a job which can give you the power to change the world – at least according to one parenting expert.

Dr Bob Jacobs, a clinical psychologist, family law solicitor and family dispute resolution practitioner, should know. He has spent his career advocating for children and helping parents be better parents. He runs the Parenting Centre at Maleny, which offers individual, couples, child and family counselling, and alternative solutions to Family Court for separating parents. And yes, he is also a parent himself. A father of three, Bob raised two of his children as a single parent.

“I’d say 80 per cent of the practice is psychology,” says Dr Bob, as he is popularly known. “The idea of the Parenting Centre is working with parents to assist families. The law and mediation comes in as

part of being a children’s advocate. My whole career’s been about that – advocating for children.”

One of the core values of the Parenting Centre is that each young person is unique and should be celebrated for who he or she is.

Dr Bob has written a book about his parenting philosophy, called Perfect Parents Perfect Children: Changing the World By Celebrating Our Perfection. It advocates a shift from the traditional “reward and punishment” style of parenting towards one of unconditional acceptance and love.

“I believe parenting is everything,” he says. “I believe parents have enormous power to change both their families’ lives, their children’s development and the world. I used to think we could effect change from the top down. Now I think it’s exactly the opposite.”

Bob specialises in helping parents who are separating, or who have already separated. This can involve developing parenting programs, or going through the formal mediation process or consultation. “It also involves post-separation parenting, which is really an emerging issue,” he says. “There are so many separated parents who are trying to co-parent children; it’s very complex.”

Although Bob is a family law solicitor, he is quick to point out that he does not represent clients in court.

“I will not practise in court because I believe it’s a destructive process for children. We are always looking at alternatives to Family Court,” he says. “We know the thing that’s so destructive for children is when parents are angry with each other, so why do we have a process that sets them up as enemies? Court is such an inappropriate place to help families who are separating.”

The Parenting Centre is about to launch a new initiative called Complete Separation Solutions. It will offer people who cannot agree on a parenting plan an alternative to Family Court, which has costs that can often run into many thousands of dollars and a process that takes years. “There are no other post-mediation alternatives until now,” he says. “My dream, my goal, is to let every parent who goes to court know there is an alternative.”

Bob describes himself as a pacifist and social activist who is passionate about social justice. Originally from America, his goal was to be a professional baseball player. When that didn’t come to fruition, he started coaching sport, and working closely with a group of teenagers who talked to him about some of their “personal stuff”. This sparked an interest in adolescent psychology, and set him on a course of university study in sociology, followed by a Master’s degree in physical education and then Master’s and Doctorate degrees in psychology. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Florida.

Bob first visited Maleny in 2002 whilst doing an internship with the Youth Affairs Network of Queensland. He fell in love with the hinterland town, which was at the time engaged in the now-famous Woolworths protest.

After several more visits to the country, during which he was a keynote speaker at state and national youth conferences in Australia, and with his own children at university, he settled at Maleny and established the Parenting Centre in 2009.

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Bob is now a proud Australian citizen, but returns regularly to America to visit his children, whom he happily describes as having “tremendous social consciences”.

He also praises their mother, adding that it is because of both of their parents, as well as themselves, that his children are who they are today.

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Experiment comes to life words Linda Read PHOTOs anastasia kariofyllidis

Artist Roger Lane’s two brief encounters with horses left him less than impressed with the species.

The first was when he was riding on a palm-fringed beach in Fiji. Roger, helpfully advised by his horse’s handler to “show her who’s boss”, was unable to do so and was terrified by the experience. The second was across the fence of a golf course, when Roger’s attempt at a friendly pat caused the horse in question to buck and flee wildly.

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Whilst Roger has no desire to make any further equine acquaintances in the real world, his latest series of paintings feature – of all things – horses. Strikingly brought to life, the paintings are beautifully proportioned representations of wild horses in motion.

The series is a slight departure from his more usual subject of women’s faces. But if you ask Roger about the horses, he seems not entirely sure how they made their way onto the canvas.

“I was doing the faces, and then I was looking at some metal sculptures, and I just did a painting,” he says. “From that, I’ve been looking at other horse shapes and it’s grown from there.

They’re quite majestic animals. I didn’t pay much attention to them until I started painting them, and I didn’t realise how different they all are. The racehorses are groomed and muscular, like athletes. The wild brumbies and mustangs have their manes flowing, and some of them are battle-scarred, with their manes all matted.”

Although Roger makes it seem as though the horses almost galloped onto the canvas themselves, there is clearly a little more to it than that. As he talks, he reveals a love for experimenting with textures, negative space and line work, which is the foundation for all his paintings. “I always start with a drawing,” he says.

His first horse painting, which sold quickly, may have been inspired by a sculpture, but the more recent ones are the result of photographic studies.

“I work off photos,” he says. “Then I put them into a computer, crop them down, make them larger. I experiment a lot.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I draw it up first. It comes instinctively; it’s a process.”

Roger shrugs when asked to describe the style of his paintings; the eyes are hauntingly realistic, as are the shapes, but the textures are abstract. “All the proportions are just right, but then I create a little bit more interest about what’s inside,” he says.

The new series also feature dogs, another departure in subject matter. Whilst he freely admits to not being a dog person either, his dog paintings are equally as appealing as the horses.

Both ‘Pup’ and ‘Sniff’ have beseeching eyes, which Roger admits takes work to achieve.

“I just keep working on them,” he says. “I want to produce something that makes you feel good. For me it’s all about the aesthetic.”

‘Paws’ is a gorgeous pink cat, who Roger says is “pure imagination”, as are his trademark women’s faces. He introduces ‘Jo’ and ‘Tristana’, whose angular figures possess what Roger describes as “a sort of gothic punk look”.

“It starts with scribbling,” he says of the way he creates the faces. “Then you accentuate the neck and the face. It’s drawing and drawing and drawing, and you end up with something that’s really loose. I guess you’d call them graphic renderings.

They’re quite different to the horses, where I’m playing around with cropping and position. There’s still texture inside, which connects them all together.”

Roger’s “scribbling”, line work and fascination with form and design can be directly linked to a lifelong love of architecture and art. As a child he was always drawing, but followed a different path when he left school, thinking there was a lack of opportunity for artists. He worked around Queensland >

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in the retail sector, then for the government before he had an opportunity eight years ago to pursue his art full time.

Apart from some introductory art courses over the years, he is selftaught as an artist. His early work was mostly abstract landscapes, inspired by his travels in Europe and the architecture he was always drawn to. He continues to gain artistic inspiration from his ongoing research into architecture, design, photography and art.

Roger’s home, which he has renovated and includes furniture he designed and made, is a study in minimalism – his preferred style.

In keeping with that theme, he has no paintings on his walls. “I like it like that,” he says. “I think it’s serene.”

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A serenity well-earned for Roger’s artistic mind, which must be filled with wild brumbies, dogs and gothic punk women causing quite a stir trying to get out.

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Essence in the image words NIKE SULWAY PORTRAIT PHOTO KATE JOHNS

For Philip Ayres, capturing moments that are the essence of life is more than just about producing sublime images.

His acclaimed photographs are the visible result of a deeper interest in the essential spiritual intangibles such as peace, love and solitude.

Born in a Victorian country town in the 1950s, Philip grew up wandering in a river redgum forest, which was then the largest in the southern hemisphere. It was here, perhaps, that Philip first developed a keen appreciation for the beauty of the landscape, and the pleasures of silence and solitude.

As a young man, Philip was interested in drawing and painting, and thought that was where his future as an artist lay. But then he met Ziggy, a Lithuanian who taught him the art of photography.

In the darkrooms of Toorak, Philip became enraptured by the luminescent glow of silver halide prints.

Philip then studied under Athol Shmith, an internationally renowned portrait photographer then teaching at Prahran College.

According to Philip, the college was “a hotbed of creativity. A number of famous photographers came out of there. [Renowned portrait photographer] Bill Henson was a year after me”.

As time went on, however, Philip’s interest in imagery expanded.

“I became more interested in the esoteric side of art – where it was coming from – and that led me into being interested in Eastern philosophies,” he says.

Philip travelled to Thailand, where he pursued his interest in Buddhism in particular.

“I found the teachings of the Buddha very straightforward,” he says. “The teachings were very much about understanding your own mind, and your own personal happiness, and freedom from your suffering.”

Eventually, he decided to become a Buddhist monk.

“When you become a monk, what they say is that you ‘go forth’.

You leave the household life, leave the home life, leave the work life … You give up your worldly endeavours and pursue the direction of the Buddha’s teachings.”

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Philip lived as a monk for 10 years. “I think for the first five years, you would describe it as difficult, but very inspirational. The monk’s life was a wonderful life. It supported meditation and personal enquiry, and everything around it – all the rules and regulations – just supported your meditation.”

Philip spent time in monasteries throughout Thailand and Sri Lanka, including a memorable 18 months living alone in a cave, high in the rainforests of Sri Lanka. Between periods spent living in monasteries, Philip was a wandering monk.

“The wandering monk was a part of the teaching and a part of the tradition of renunciation, of giving up, but also of some sort of freedom. Not to have any set abode. Not to have a home, just to wander from day to day … People give you food when they see you, and you take up any residence that’s offered at the end of the day. Maybe an old shed, maybe a schoolhouse, maybe a deserted home.”

Eventually, however, Philip decided to come back to Australia, at least for a time. His parents were ageing, and he felt the need to “get [his] body back together”. Originally, he planned to return to Asia, but when the opportunity arose to go back, he decided against it, opting instead to disrobe.

“Disrobing means that you finish your time as a formal monk.

Consciously, you do that. Intentionally, you do that … I found that at the time that’s what I needed to do.”

For a while he lived in the natural landscapes of northern Australia, but eventually he returned to Melbourne, where he established a college whose curriculum focused on photography and creativity: the ICPP International College of Creative Arts.

Whilst the college was a success, eventually it was time to let that go, too.

Time to go back to photography.

Philip’s work as a photographer emerges from his experience as a Buddhist, his understanding of the teachings, as well as his reverence for the Australian landscape. He sees his photographs

as a representation of the spirituality of the land, and says that he feels “connected to the Aboriginal spirituality of the country … In my work I convey my stories, not their stories, but I also recognise their significance: that it’s their land.”

The process of taking the photograph is, for Philip, an important part of the work.

“I’m usually drawn to a place. It’s an intuitive thing. Then I see that something worthy of photographing, that has its own story, is in that place … Usually the title of the image comes to me before I photograph it. When I see it through the lens, I know what it is.

That’s like the harbinger of the story.

“The story comes to me then, but it’s not verbalised. The story of what I photograph. The actual image’s story … it’s just there.”

Philip doesn’t wish to be cemented as a landscape photographer.

Despite being an adept studio artist, however, it seems clear that it’s in landscape that his heart lies.

“In the studio, of course, you can convey spiritual concepts … but I feel like, in being at one with nature in the land, which is free from ego, and free from personality, you’re going beyond personality and ego. When you’re photographing landscape, you’re photographing it just for what it is, and if you do that on a spiritual level, it’s a meditative, contemplative experience.” desert sanctus

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Playing on a Golden Morning by David Boyd

December 1 PRECIOUS LITTLE The annual chance to find quality gifts of originality for friends, family and possibly yourself. Artwork says so much and lasts beyond a lifetime. when Now to December 24 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 or artoncairncross.com.au

2 BY HAND & HEART An exhibition of original artworks made with love by local artists. Enjoy the art of gifting art. when Now to December 24 where Art Nuvo Gallery, 25 Gloucester Road, Buderim. 5456 2445 or artnuvobuderim.com.au

3 RUBY RED SHOES SECOND BOOK RELEASE Kate Knapp brings joy to every heart of every age and her second children’s book is no exception: ‘Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris’ is full of Kate’s exquisite illustrations on every page. when Available now where Ardleigh Cleveland Gallery, 7 Howard Street, Nambour.

5441 1126 or ardleighclevelandgallery.com

4 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR COLLECTABLE ART SALE Save on beautiful art at the Sunshine Coast’s premier investment art gallery with discounts for a limited time during the annual sale on selected originals by prestigious painters David Boyd, Pro Hart, Norman Lindsay, Albert Namatjira, Sidney Nolan, Geoffrey Proud, Hugh Sawrey, Tim Storrier and more. when Now to mid January (closed December 22 to January 1) where Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery, 138 Burnett Street, corner Townsend Rd, Buderim. 5450 1722 or tiffanyjonesfineart.com.au

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Eye candy. Food for the mind and soul.

Take a moment to peruse some of the finest works of art from some of the best galleries on the coast this summer.

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6 CALIFORNIA DESIGN 19301965 LIVING IN A MODERN WAY Iconic Californian designs including the first Barbie doll, classic Levi Strauss 501 jeans and innovative furniture are amongst the works featured in this major exhibition of mid-20th century Californian design. when Now to February 9 where Queensland Art Gallery, Stanley Place, Cultural precinct, South Bank, Brisbane. 3840 7303 or qagoma.qld.gov.au

7 GARY MYERS – SPRING COMPOSITIONS Gary’s art is immediately identifiable as Australian, giving glimpses of larrikinism with vibrant colours that abandon traditional norms. when Now to March 31 where Holden’s Gallery, 38b Coral Street, Maleny. 5494 2100 or holdensgallery.com.au

5 BRIAN TISDALL Brian is inspired by anything and everything as you will see from this eclectic mix of paintings on canvas.

8 JOANNE DUCKWORTH – FLOWERS, FIGURES AND FANTASY This exhibition features intuitive studies in watercolour by artist Joanne Duckworth as she perceives the world around her.

when Now to January 31 where Tisdall Gallery, 5 Howard Street, Nambour. 0415 839 184 or briantisdall.com.au

when Now to March 31 where Holden’s Gallery, 38b Coral Street, Maleny. 5494 2100 or holdensgallery.com.au

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Art exhibitions December 2013

Caloundra Regional Gallery Open: Wed to Sun, 10am–4pm Address: 22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra Phone: 5420 8299 5 December – 2 February Sons of Beaches 72 An art and lm installation that charts the development of the seminal pro-surng movement that rose from the Gold Coast in the early 1970s.

Mark Richards, Michael Peterson, Peter ‘PT’ Townend, Ian Cairns. Image: Thor Severson.

Artwork: Leigh Fabian.

Noosa Regional Gallery

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Napoleon Wombat Surveys The Mary Valley by Brian Tisdall

9 JULIA CARTER – SOUL CONNECTION Joyful vibrant paintings celebrate and explore the magical connections which interweave our experiences and the natural world. when December 14 to January 31 where Julia Carter Studio Gallery, 6/33 Gateway Drive, Noosaville.

0414 638 096 or juliacarterartist.com

January 10 KENDALL

Kendall, an internationally acclaimed artist best known for her vibrant, colourful canvases. when January 1 to 31 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 or montvilleartgallery.com.au

Open: Wed to Sun, 10am–4pm Address: 9 Pelican St, Tewantin Phone: 5449 5340 11 December – 19 January In Search of reverie

11 SUMMER EXHIBITION

A collection of new works by gallery artists Peter Hudson, Barry Fitzpatrick, Lyne Marshall and Graham Radcliffe.

Fiona Kennedy Altoft’s playful and experimental human bird gures are a fresh and lively portrait of this contemporary artist’s life.

when January 2 to 31 where NeoGallery, 24 Berry Court, Mount Coolum. By appointment 5471 6175 or neogallery.net

12 SUMMER RANGE

A selection of artworks by our gallery artists, celebrating the joys of summer from paintings to sculpture, from porcelain to glass. when January 4 to 26 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 or artoncairncross.com.au

Fiona Kennedy Altoft, OMG He said What (detail), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120cm.

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15 SUMMERTIME

Stan Reynolds’ vibrant paintings cover a diversity of subject matter.

Presented with the painted surfboards of Brian Tisdall, this exhibition is sure to impress. when January 18 to February 28 where Tisdall Gallery, 5 Howard Street, Nambour. 0415 839 184 or briantisdall.com.au

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KATHY ELLEM Art Nuvo welcomes the beautiful floral works of Kathy. when January 6 to March 31 where Art Nuvo, 25 Gloucester Road, Buderim. 5456 2445 or artnuvubuderim.com.au

14 THE MCCRAE ART

COLLECTION An exhibition of selected works from the joint art collection of Lyn and John McCrae: one of the Sunshine Coast’s most eclectic collections of modern and contemporary Australian art. when January 15 to February 22 where Butter Factory Arts Centre, 10 Maple Street, Cooroy.

5454 9050 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

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16 TASTE OF ART

Friends Noosa Regional Gallery Inc. presents its third group show exclusively organised for its creative members. when January 22 to February 16 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Level 1, Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

17 EMMA FREEMAN: NOOSA’S

CREATIVE TREASURE An exhibition celebrating the vibrant works of a lively creative treasure of Noosa: Emma Freeman, local artist and author. when January 22 to February 16 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Level 1, Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

An exhibition of contemporary indigenous art from the central desert community of Utopia. The exhibition features works by Kathleen, Gloria, Jeannie and Anna Petyarre.

18 EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE II,

AN EXHIBITION BY KIM SCHOENBERGER Kim Schoenberger unveils a unique unravelling of the transitional paradigm that is love, presenting a rationale of generational sisterhood forged through a shared experience. when January 22 to February 16 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Level 1, Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

February 19 BRYDIE PERKINS-BRAKELS

Following in the footsteps of her famous mother Kendall, Brydie’s whimsical, eclectic style is bold and gutsy and shows talent and maturity beyond her years. when February 1 to 28 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 or montvilleartgallery.com.au

when February 1 to March 31 where NeoGallery, 24 Berry Court, Mount Coolum. By appointment 5471 6175 or neogallery.net

21 SILK RESORT WEAR

BY ARDLEIGH Fulfilling a long-time desire, Ardleigh releases her exclusive range of hand dyed and printed silk resort wear. when From February 1 where Ardleigh Cleveland Gallery, 7 Howard Street, Nambour.

5441 1126 or ardleighclevelandgallery.com

22 SUNDAY DRIVE

Let us take you on a Sunday Drive: through vistas of green and blue, old structures and new. The works in this exhibition are drawn from the Council’s art collection which celebrates our local artists. when February 6 to March 23 where Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra. 5420 8299 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

March 25 PLAYING HARD

BY JIM KINCH A fabulous collection of acrylic paintings on canvas, depicting a range of sports and leisure activities including cycling, horse racing, golf and tennis. when March 1 to 30 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 or artoncairncross.com.au

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26 GREG ADAMS

SENSORY WORLD Looks at how Australians with eye conditions learn, work, play sport, create art and carry out everyday tasks through objects, interactive displays and multimedia.

MOUNTAINS WALKING, LIN MARTIN Artist Lin Martin captures here the wild beauty of her natural surrounds on the Sunshine Coast, presenting her ‘aesthetic’ in both photographic works and considered text.

when February 19 to March 23 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Level 1, Riverside, 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

when February 26 to April 5 where Butter Factory Arts Centre, 10 Maple Street, Cooroy.

5454 9050 or galleries.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

when March 1 to 31 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville.

5442 9211 or montvilleartgallery.com.au

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Painting entirely from memory, Greg produces stunning, vibrant canvases of the Sunshine Coast, the tropical north and our famous national parks in the Northern Territory using a style known as “formalised realism”.

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art SPACE

SILVER-COPPER HAMMERED POD artist Barry Smith medium recycled silver plate over copper size 850mm x 650mm (widest point) price $125 Holden’s Gallery, 38b Coral Street, Maleny.

5494 2100 or holdensgallery.com.au

STARGAZING artist Barry Rosenberg medium wood and leadlight size 320mm x 310mm x 140mm price $465 Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 or artoncairncross.com.au

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These artworks – featured on salt’s own gallery space for summer – offer depth and perspective.

THE ARAB artist Cathy Anderson medium solid bronze on a polished granite plinth height 3020mm (including plinth) price $2600 Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 or montvilleartgallery.com.au

LILLY artist Monte Lupo – Artists with Disabilities medium handmade mosaics and clay (suitable to live in a garden) height 570mm price $650 Art Nuvo Gallery, 25 Gloucester Road, Buderim. 5456 2445 or artnuvobuderim.com.au

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MANU artist Graham Radcliffe medium bronze on a black granite base size 820mm x 150mm x 150mm price $4500 NeoGallery, 24 Berry Court, Mount Coolum.

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Rustic soul, arty heart words CASSY SMALL photos Anastasia Kariofyllidis

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If a house is valued by the sum of the memories it contains, then the Montville home of artist Stephanie McLennan and her husband Bryan is priceless.

‘Tunkullum’ is the three hectare property that the couple bought in 1979 and is named after the Aboriginal name for macaranga tanarius, a plant with heart shaped leaves that was found bordering the property. The McLennans and their three young children, who were living in Canberra at the time, holidayed in Montville to visit Stephanie’s parents and never went back. “We both grew up in Queensland but lived in Papua New Guinea and then Canberra for a number of years. We just fell in love with the Sunshine Coast and hinterland,” Stephanie says.

The property was a blank canvas and surveyor Bryan says it was the perfect backdrop to build the family home. Today the jewel of the property is the small one bedroom cottage which the couple built themselves along with the help of some friends. The brief for the design of the house was simply to accommodate their eight-seater dining table, a combustion stove and a bedroom suite. “The house has evolved somewhat over the years from there,” laughs Bryan.

The property now consists of four separate constructions: the cottage, the main living quarters, Bryan’s office and Stephanie’s studio and gallery.

With tea and biscotti on the same dining table they moved in with, it’s easy to feel at home in this little house with a big heart.

Shelves and display cabinets are heaving with framed photographs and family heirlooms, and Stephanie insists it’s not just for display.

“We use everything. The old bowls, champagne glasses that were my parents’, my grandmother’s tea set; everything still gets used and the kids use them too.”

Singling out a favourite possession is impossible for Stephanie.

“All of them are my favourite, and that’s why we can never move,” she chuckles. Whilst she can’t name a favourite item, the most unusual is easy – the horse hoof inkwell which formerly belonged to Bryan’s grandmother’s favourite pony.

Art is on display wherever you look, and the pieces that adorn the walls are predominately those of other Sunshine Coast artists. “We have more pieces than we have walls to hang them,” >

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The kids spent all of their time out on the property making cubby houses and having adventures.

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Stephanie says. “Rustic” is the word this “pair of old hippies” use to describe their home.

Photos of their nine grandchildren, the signature of every doting grandparent, are scattered amongst the artwork and knickknacks.

With their eldest son and his three children living in New York, family gatherings are a rare but celebrated occurrence. Family means everything to Stephanie and Bryan, and central to the home is a solid timber pole etched with the heights of their children and grandchildren over the years.

The Montville cottage and its surrounds have been the scene of many happy occasions. Several family weddings have been held on the lawn and dinner parties with friends are often so big they need to be moved to Stephanie’s studio for guests to be seated at trestle tables. Stephanie and Bryan love entertaining, something they think comes from their time living in Papua New Guinea.

“Community is everything. You learn to appreciate people and the simple pleasure of sharing a meal at the table together,” she says.

Bryan boasts that Stephanie is a fabulous cook and her impressively large oven is a dominant feature of her kitchen.

Whilst she seldom makes the same thing twice, coq au vin and chicken hunter-style are two dishes she’s best known for.

If cooking is her hobby, then painting is her passion. Stephanie came to art later in life after a successful career as a physiotherapist.

“It was always something I was interested in, but never had the time to follow through with.” >

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Water colours were her chosen medium, and after one lesson with a Brisbane-based teacher, Stephanie was invited on a trip to Winton with a group of female artists. “We’ve now travelled to New Zealand, Italy and other places around Australia on painting trips,” she says.

The group WOWW, which is an acronym for Women of Wit and Wisdom, host exhibitions of their work after each trip, and Stephanie says these painting expeditions are a great opportunity to focus on her art. “I work much better when I’m disciplined with my time. At home I just snatch moments whenever I can. On our trips we paint all day and critique each other’s work.”

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At home her small studio is set at the back of the property and offers inspirational views of the surrounding landscape. It’s a short walk from the main home and it’s a great opportunity to take in the gardens of the property. The veggie patch is a work in progress and has a healthy selection of herbs, but has previously produced artichokes and asparagus. Cultivating the patch further is a job for Bryan’s retirement to-do list.

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by Stephanie and Bryan’s children. This enormous mulberry tree seems to be straight from the pages of a children’s picture book and Stephanie recalls many occasions of her children, and now grandchildren, climbing its branches. A tyre swing completes this children’s dream backyard. “The kids were in bare feet all the time when they were young. They spent all of their time out on the property making cubby houses and having adventures,” she says.

Not surprisingly a variety of native animals also call ‘Tunkullum’ home, and a sign at the property entry urges visitors to ‘watch for dragons’ – a reminder of the water dragons who live in the small creek that trickles through the property. Koalas, hares, goannas and snakes are also in residence.

Slices of heaven are not just appreciated by human residents.

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MEET THE DESIGNER

Wheel of fortune WORDS CELESTE MITCHELL PHOTOS ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS

For Elke Lucas, it was love that brought pottery into her life, or perhaps pottery that filled her life with love.

After meeting her husband Ben in a small town in South Devon where she was studying, the loved-up duo travelled through Ireland and South America for a while before settling in the tiny town of Welcombe on the northern Devon coast, where Elke would become part of the local pottery family.

“It’s a tiny little village with about 100 people living there, but it’s one of those spots like Noosa, where people just come on holidays,” Elke says. “We had a tiny little pottery gallery there but it got so busy in the summer.”

Whilst there was no steamy Ghost-like scene (at least not that Elke is revealing today), the pure act of creating with her hands had her falling head over heels for this ancient craft, passed down through generations.

“The first thing I did on the pottery wheel was a tiny straightsided bowl – it’s the first thing you need to master on the wheel, keeping the sides straight as the clay has a tendency to want to move outwards with the movement of the wheel,” Elke says. “It 128

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turned out pretty good for my first go and I actually managed to sell it straight away in our little gallery that was attached to the workshop for about one pound. It made me feel very proud!”

With a background in architectural drafting – having completed an apprenticeship after high school, before wanderlust and her passion for the environment took over – Elke revelled in the hands-on process immediately.

“I just love the feel of seeing something, from just a lump of earth really, making it into something functional that people can really enjoy and love and fill their house with,” she says.

After eight years in Devon, Elke and her family settled for a six-year stint in Christchurch. Then, like all good love stories, a whimsical yearning – nothing more than a feeling – would prompt them to make the move to the Sunshine Coast.

“We didn’t actually know anything about Noosa, but we felt really drawn to it,” Elke says. “We had already decided we wanted to move here but then we came over for a holiday – we thought we better suss it out before we moved. And we haven’t regretted it. I just absolutely love it here.”

Whilst she now has an extensive and carefully designed collection of beautiful ceramic pieces to her name, Elke was still working as a drafter as recently as a year ago, when the call for ‘something more’ became too strong.

“The work wasn’t very creative in the end, and I felt like I just needed a change in my life,” she says. “So I resigned and didn’t know what to do with myself and the only thing I could come up with, what I really wanted to do, was ceramics.”

And just like that decision to relocate to the coast, Elke went with her gut and started working with porcelain – something she says she’d always wanted to do after years of working with red earthenware in England. “I love the translucency of it,” she says.

“And it is a totally new thing for me, but that’s what makes it even more exciting, to just experiment with something new.”

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actually something that people would like,” Elke says. “And that took quite a long time to get to that place, just because I wasn’t set up completely. I didn’t have my own kiln, and at first I didn’t have my own wheel. Before I had to pack everything up – the raw pots – and take them down to Kunda Park. I always lost quite a bit of work on the way. Now I’m all set up and all I have to do is go from my spare room out the back and I can pack the kiln and it’s all done.”

Inspired by the work of veteran potter Lucie Rie and experimenting with less-than-traditional methods to create her own distinctive trademark, Elke has carved out an impressive name in a relatively short time.

“I used cobalt and copper a lot when we were in England and I still use them but I’ve introduced manganese, which runs quite a lot with the glaze so you get drips running down,” she says.

She also draws inspiration from the outdoors, whilst walking along the beach and in the national park. You can see Elke’s love of nature imprinted in many of her pieces – with leaves, ferns and other plants that make their way home from those walks rolled into her flatware plates, and coloured with hints of copper and manganese.

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pieces have found their way into The Spirit House’s store, Carol Tretheway Design in Noosa and Nook in Brisbane’s West End. Her story really is proof that if you do what you love and follow your bliss, success will have no choice but to follow. “I just really feel at peace with it,” Elke says. “Finally I’ve found something that I just love doing and I also hopefully will be able to make it into a success and make a living from it, which is the ultimate, isn’t it, to be able to do what you love doing?”

She hopes more than anything that the love and passion she injects into each piece doesn’t go to waste, sitting idly, collecting dust in someone’s home. She wants people to experience the same level of fulfilment and happiness putting her pieces to good use, as she feels when she creates them.

“My hope is that people will very much just use them on an everyday basis, really, just because I don’t like the idea of something just being a decorative piece that you put on the wall or something – they are made for people to be using them every day.

“I get excited when people say things like ‘I’m going to use it for my muesli in the morning’ and you know they’re going to get an awful lot of pleasure out of it, just having it there and using it. It feels really great.” elkelucasceramics.com FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Elke Lucas and her ceramics.

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“Hup!”

Yet the best part is that anyone at all can do it – all they need is the desire to give it a go.

Until 15 minutes ago I’d never heard the word, but now my ears are straining for it as though it were the most important word in the world. I’m still holding on to the security of a handrail and platform, but with “hup” I’ll be letting go and stepping off … seven metres up in the air.

As if to underline the point, Luc tells me he was completely paralysed in 2010 from a rare virus that left him a quadriplegic for eight months.

It comes.

“Hup!” says my catcher. He’s ready, but am I? In my imagination I’m falling, yet within the same split second I’m flying, my weight taken by a safety harness and the momentum of the swing … and it’s complete exhilaration.

It’s the thrill of being lost to time, lost to gravity and lost to any limitations.

It’s something Cirque Espace owners Luc and Nikki Gheysen are all too familiar with. Successful performing artists in their own right, they were drawn to the flying trapeze during a wedding anniversary resort stay where the 10m high trapeze rig was based.

It sparked a three-day-a-week training regime for 18 months before the couple eventually took over the business. They’re still very much smitten with trapeze.

“We keep chasing it, you can never get to the bottom of it,” Luc says. “It’s a huge thing to get to an elite level in flying trapeze.

It’s the pinnacle of the circus, the traditional finale that takes everybody’s breath away and wanting more.”

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“I had to put up a fight to survive, learning to talk, eat and write again from scratch … but you need to keep going,” Luc says, now back to full time performance.

And that’s how Luc and Nikki live their lives, accepting the challenges, supporting each other and having fun in the process.

“It’s a psychological experiment for us every time we take someone up to the trapeze,” Nikki says.

“You never know what mental blocks or past experience people are taking with them and we have to work out how to get them through it so by the end of the first session they’re already performing a catch manoeuvre.”

For me, it’s a mental challenge to remain focussed despite the overwhelmingly euphoric stimulus going on around me. I need to shut down my mental chatter to listen for the next command by the time I reach the end of the first swing forward.

“Legs up … now!” Nikki calls from the ground below.

I quickly pull my legs up onto the bar above me: a move we’ve previously practised on the ground and one which is surprisingly easy given I’m fairly weightless between the harness and the kinetic energy pushing me forward.

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Now I get to relax for a few seconds, my hands and knees all holding the trapeze bar as I gently swing back towards the platform I’ve jumped off seconds before. It’s a chance to catch a breather before my favourite part of the trick – letting go of the bar.

“Let go … now!”

There’s something simply beautiful about just letting go.

With a breath I take my hands off the bar and my body falls backwards in what feels like slow motion. It’s completely thrilling and empowering: a mental exercise in trust, knowing you’re completely safe and completely supported.

The reward in letting go is knowing you’ll be just fine. That’s when the magic happens.

A family owned lodge, guests feel instantly at home with the sweet-as-maple-syrup hosts, cosy log cabins, intelligent horses and breath-taking surrounds. With the 7 night lodge riding package, no two days are the same, with thousands of pristine Alpine forest to explore. Pack horse trips are available also.

7 night lodge ride from $2795 USD all inclusive.

Riding season from June through to September.

RIDER TESTIMONIAL

I arch my back and tilt my head up with arms outstretched so I can see the catcher’s trapeze swinging towards me.

“Had a great time. Jenny and Jeremy are perfect hosts. Lovely horses, trails, wine and food plus excursions out with Jenny on the foodie trail.

Definitely keen to do another.”

Judy Blackwell completed the Tassie Tiger Trail, October 2013.

“Where you look, your body will follow,” Nikki has already instructed me.

And he’s there. A silent conversation happens between us as our eyes meet. He takes a grip on my wrists and I take his, letting my legs fall from beneath me, catch complete.

Was the trapeze a challenge? Absolutely, but rewarding in unimaginable ways where I learnt far more about myself than just physical capabilities.

Visit us at www.globetrotting.com.au phone: 043 885 1981 email: info@globetrotting.com.au

Would I do it again? Right now. cirqueespace.com

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tourist information

backward glance: Can you guess where on the Sunshine Coast this is? Visit the read salt page on saltmagazine.com.au to find out.

Image courtesy of Heritage Library, Sunshine Coast Council

climate

travelling distances

No wonder it’s called the Sunshine Coast, with an average of seven hours of sunshine daily (one of the highest amounts in the world).

Summer (December to February) days are always popular with visitors with an average temperature between 17°C to 32°C and an ocean temperature of 24°C. Temperatures in the hinterland can be several degrees cooler.

Brisbane to Caloundra........................ 100km Brisbane to Mooloolaba...................... 105km Brisbane to Nambour......................... 110km Brisbane to Noosa ............................. 148km Noosa to Montville.............................. 56km Mooloolaba to Maleny........................ 41km Caloundra to Kenilworth..................... 77km school holidays December 13, 2013 to January 28, 2014. emergency telephone numbers

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(Times vary between 7am – 5pm) Year round 7 days/week Noosa Heads, Sunshine Beach, Peregian Beach, Coolum Beach, Twin Waters Resort, Maroochydore, Alexandra Headland, Mooloolaba, Dicky Beach, Kings Beach.

To stay safe at the beach remember:

Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Police, Coastguard, Rescue......................000 Poisons Information Centre...............131 126 Ambulance Transport........................131 233

Too much exposure to the sun can cause serious damage to your skin. Make sure whenever you are going in the sun that you take adequate precautions.

markets

slip, slop, slap, Seek and slide

Cotton Tree Street Market, King Street, Cotton Tree, every Sunday, 7am to noon.

Eumundi Courtyard Village Market, 76 Memorial Drive, Eumundi, every Saturday 8am to 2pm, Wednesday 8.30am to 1pm.

Caloundra Markets, Bulcock Street, Caloundra, every Sunday, 8am to 1pm.

Caloundra Country Markets, 17 Buderim Street, Currimundi, every Sunday.

Kawana Waters Farmers’ Market, Stern Street (Sportsman Parade end), every Saturday, 7am to noon.

Noosa Farmers’ Market, AFL Grounds, Weyba Road, Noosaville, every Sunday, 7am to noon.

Maleny Market, Maple Street, every Sunday, 8am to 2pm.

Fishermans Road Sunday Markets, Fishermans Road, Maroochydore, every Sunday, 6am to noon.

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Slip on a shirt (preferably a long-sleeved shirt).

Slop on the sunscreen (30+ and reapply as needed).

Slap on a hat.

Seek some shade.

Slide on wrap around UV protective sunglasses.

It’s also a good idea to avoid direct exposure to the sun during the hottest part of the day – between the hours of 10am and 3pm – and try to take advantage of shade when possible.

DIRECTORY

useful information when visiting the sunshine coast DENTAL

MEDICAL

SKIN

Riverside Dental offers swift, accurate and pain free treatments. Friendly advice and great value.

BULK BILL General Practice and Skin Check Clinic Open 8am - 7pm Monday to Friday and 8am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Coolum Village Shopping Centre 8-26 Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach.

5471 6333 lookingafteryourhealth.com.au

Early skin cancer detection.

Scan QR code with smartphone for details

Suite 2/17 Thomas Street, Noosaville.

5455 5066 or 0432 907 559 (after hours) riversidedental.com.au

ELECTRICAL

Looking for a reliable and prompt electrician? green energy electrical services the domestic, industrial and commercial industries.

Accredited in solar grid connect.

Call Steven Pilcher for a no obligation free quote on 0421 162 007 greenenergyelectrical.com.au

BULK BILL Peregian Springs Doctors Open 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday At the new Coles Peregian Springs Shopping Centre, 1 Ridgeview Drive (formerly Havana Road West) Peregian Springs, 1st floor above Amcal Pharmacy. 5471 2600 lookingafteryourhealth.com.au

Surgical and non-surgical treatments.

Suite 1, Kawana Private Hospital, 5 Innovation Parkway, Birtinya. 5438 8889 skinsurveillance.com

Would you like to advertise in our directory? Contact salt magazine 0438 851 981

Advertise with salt for free* Each edition salt gives away a third page advertisement worth $1100 to a worthy non-profit organisation that tugs on our salt strings. This edition we’re proud to donate a third page advertisement to Reed Check. If you know or are a part of a non-profit organisation that needs to spread the word, please let us know. To find out more visit saltmagazine.com.au and click on the free ad link.

Reef Check Australia is an innovative environmental charity dedicated to protecting Australias reefs and oceans by engaging the community in hands on research and education. Our teams of trained volunteers are currently conducting annual reef health surveys along the Sunshine Coast.

YOU can help too! Become a REEFSearcher. Our

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reef identification and observation program allows any diver, snorkeler or reef walker to report on what they find through an underwater slate and online REEFSearch Hub. No training required.

Don’t just look... Search! Find out more at www.reefcheckaustralia.org The Reef Check Australia Sunshine Coast program is suported by the Sunshine Coast Council.

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