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welcome to the autumn 2011 edition of salt.

Ode to grandmothers. what are your fondest memories of your grandmother/s.

A childhood memory that includes my adoring, perfume-smelling grandmother Marnie was when our annual Easter egg hunt went pear shaped.

Every Easter my grandparents would initiate an Easter egg hunt. Drinks in hand, dogs in tow, they would totter around the garden hiding foiled chocolate eggs under watering cans, behind pot plants and in the elbows of trees. My brother, sister and I were banished indoors and I remember the sleepless night anticipating the chocolate bounty of the morning’s egg hunt. One year, after what seemed like hours of egg hunting under the guidance of our grandparents, we couldn’t find a single chocolate egg to wrap our lips around. Both my grandparents and parents were also mystified that there wasn’t a chocolate egg to be found in the usual hiding spots.

It wasn’t until that afternoon when we were taking the dogs for a walk that I noticed deposits of dog poo glimmering with Easter egg foil. from that day forward the dogs were forbidden to participate in the ritual of planting the Easter eggs throughout the garden.

Our autumn edition is lovingly stitched with thoughtful articles and giveaway goodness encouraging you to flip, peruse, glance and read the magazine from top to toe. with a handful of long weekends upon us, we begin with Claire Plush’s article Triple Treat for Explorers. It is the ultimate guide to spending a mini-break on the sunshine Coast in the shoes of a culture vulture, adventure seeker and family funster. The edition concludes with a splash, listing the best fresh water swimming holes scattered along the coast.

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subeditor and writer, jane fynes-clinton My Nanna was scrabble, iced vo-vos and spicy fruit rolls. she was plastic on her green velvet couch, lippy applied only for a photo, a support stocking and sensible shoes. she was stories from times past. she was strong, deliberate and intelligent.

fashion and beauty editor, brisies onfray A spirited spanish and fiercely independent grandmother not to be reckoned with ... but she always tells me she loves me, no matter what. so many hours have been spent listening to her most fascinating life stories and then, so many more hours have been spent listening as she tells me my future ... she is a gifted fortune teller. she turns 100 this year (But don’t dare tell her I told you that)! writer, leigh robshaw I loved my Granky’s brutal honesty, wicked sense of humour, selflessness and lively interest in politics. she had no time for pretentiousness and was unapologetically opinionated to the very end. My other grandma was the gentlest, most kind-hearted person I’ve ever known. writer, linda read The games my Nanna played with us as children were quite extraordinary. It was nothing for her to be captured by pirates, watch entire concerts, participate in cooking demonstrations and fly to the moon – all in the space of one afternoon. she was also a voracious reader, and inspired in me a great love of books. photographer, anastasia kariofyllidis unfortunately I have very few memories as my grandmothers lived in Greece. I only met my maternal grandmother once when I was seven (she died the following year) and my paternal grandmother at age seven and 18. My maternal grandmother would lavish me with lots of hugs and kisses (and food) and my paternal grandmother and I used to play lots of backgammon and card games.

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writer, frances frangenheim I have so many happy memories of our granny. I loved coming home at night in winter to find granny had popped a hot water bottle in my bed and neatly folded down the sheets for me. she would make me endless cups of tea during exam times and be up for fun chats when I needed a break.

writer and photographer, claire plush One nan would always bring me scrambled eggs and cold cups of tea in bed when I was tiny, the other the softest cuddles. salt is proofread by jane todd

salt ingredients

autumn 2011

“salt is born of the purest parents, the sun and the sea”

Pythagoras

in t h e limelig h t 06 triple treat for explorers

salt maps out a long weekend that will satisfy the desires within any adventurer.

16 TREASURES IN THE DEEP

Wonders abound beneath the waters off the Sunshine Coast.

T O TA L LY COVERED This image was shot heading towards Double Island Point using a Canon 1D Mark II with a 135mm lens at 1/500 of a second at f4.

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54 clo s e to h ome

Cover kindly supplied by Nick Rains.

14 secrets only a local would know

nickrains.com

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

30 precinct feature

The Noosa River has been a favourite spot for generations, and is a perfect place for dining, doing and playing.

106 GREAT OUTDOORS

salt gives the low down on the Sunshine Coast’s best freshwater swimming holes.

30 Editorial and Advertising enquiries: Email: info@saltmagazine.com.au General Enquiries: 0438 851 981 Website: saltmagazine.com.au 4 salt

LIVING & LIfEsTYLE 98

98 TA s T E & T I P P L E s 42 TABLE TALk

76 C R E AT I V E ExPREssIONs 26 PuRsuIT Of PAssION

Catherine Ovenden and Nicole Gaunt are dedicated to brightening urban spaces with street art on traffic signal boxes.

28 PAGETuRNERs

salt looks at a handful of top-rate, new books to devour during lazy autumn days.

76 uP AND COMING

The couple behind tilldeathdouspart offers some insight into business, creativity and finding individual style.

84 ART

salt previews floating Land, an interactive art festival that promises to inspire and educate.

88 Off ThE wALL

A peek into the world of master mask maker and sculptor Michael Taylor.

90 ART DATEs

The sunshine Coast has some of the best art galleries in the world. find out what will be on show and where in the autumn months.

94 ART sPACE

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

salt meets chef and co-owner of Reserve Restaurant and Cellar kieran Reekie, who never intended to become a master of the kitchen.

IN YOuR DREAMs

Brian and Margot Jewell’s beach house blends bush, pool and ocean with wide open luxury.

102 hOMEwAREs

Beautiful items to enhance a lounge room.

104 MEET ThE DEsIGNER

salt meets Anthony Pizzica, a talented musician and guitar maker.

54 RELAxED RECIPEs

Recipes that will make use of that flavoursome fruit – figs.

46 PRODuCE PEOPLE

Marie and Geoff shires follow in the footsteps of ancient times and farm figs at their woombye property.

50 PLATE uP

salt showcases some of the finest dishes for autumn created by the finest food creators on the coast.

52 ChEf’s sELECTION

The chef at Nude delicafe Jan Mora shares a treasured recipe.

56 sIPs

sauvignon blanc is our favourite drop – with good reason.

GLAMOuR & GLITz 58 fAshION

A sensational spread of the most fabulous styles for autumn.

BODY & BEAuTY 80 BEAuTY

salt looks at essential products that will help you to play make believe this season.

82 PAMPER AND PREEN

s TA P L E s 12 sIx 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.

22 CALENDAR Of EVENTs

salt has hand picked a variety of events on the sunshine Coast that are guaranteed to please throughout autumn.

24 LOOk AT ME

salt meets Garrey foulkes, who has given 17 years of his time to create a Garden of Enlightenment at Eudlo.

96 GRAINs Of sALT

Demographer Bernard salt defends tea drinkers in a sea of coffee houses.

108 TOuRIsT INfORMATION

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

110 MAP from noosa heads to marcoola 111 MAP from marcoola to glass house mountains

112 MAIN MAP

The spa at Noosa springs is awash with ways to make a body feel good.

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triple treat for explorers words and photos claire plush

unravel the diverse layers of the sunshine Coast during a long-weekend getaway.

WITH ACTIVITIES SO DIVERSE and a choice so broad, explorers can traverse the coast from a different perspective each day of the long weekend – as an adventure seeker, a family funster and a culture vulture.

Whether you’re a backyard explorer or an interstate traveller, salt has devised an itinerary to help you soak up the region’s flavours over three memorable days.

At the end of the long weekend, the Sunshine Coast sample plate will leave the most inquisitive explorer satisfied.

From exploring charming hinterland towns and endless beaches, to dining at exclusive restaurants and discovering vibrant markets, the Sunshine Coast has a little something for everyone. >

walk from Mooloolaba through Beacon Lighthouse Reserve past a secluded beach, a fishing rock wall and alongside the Mooloolah River.

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Learn to sail on the Maroochy river and let the wind determine your destination.

DAY ONE MORNING MATTERs Launch into a Sunshine Coast holiday by pounding one of the many coastal walkways as the rest of the region sleeps. It’s the perfect opportunity to get your heart racing, while taking in postcard-perfect views. Most paths or boardwalks hug the pristine coastline, and often venture through parklands or glide around rocky headlands.

At the bottom of the coast, join early risers for a wander from Moffat Beach to Bulcock Beach past deserted coves, war memorials and stunning beachfront properties.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, Q15.

To the north, follow the pathway from Noosa Main Beach deep into the Noosa National Park. Keep your eyes peeled for dozing koalas and pods of dolphins gallivanting in the crystal clear bays.

Map reference: noosa to marcoola, P7.

Wedged in the middle of the coast lies a short circuit at Point Cartwright. Sitting across the river from Mooloolaba, the trail weaves through Beacon Lighthouse Reserve past a secluded beach, a fishing rock wall and alongside the Mooloolah River.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, P8.

MIDDAY MOMENTs It’s time to swap coastal scenery for lush green gullies, tall forests and burly mountains. National parks blanket large sections of the Sunshine Coast and are yearning to be discovered by foot or fourwheel drive.

The Glass House Mountains National Park is home to five of Queensland’s most recognisable landmarks. The rigid volcanic peaks are studded amidst eucalypt forests and pine plantations, and stand up to 556m tall. Most of the mountains have summit or base tracks that vary in difficulty. A good starting point is the 2.2km return walk to the summit of Mount Ngungun.

If walking is not enough of a challenge, why not try scaling the cliff face of Mount Ngungun during an adventure tour? For about $100 Pinnacle Sports (3368 3335 or pinnaclesports.com.au) takes 8 salt

beginners under their wing for half a day of rock-climbing and abseiling. Map reference: main map, K21.

If you’re looking to retreat from the midday heat make a beeline for Kondalilla National Park. Named after the majestic Kondalilla Falls, the national park is near Montville in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Resting on top of the waterfall are chilled rock pools perfect for a rejuvenating dip. Map reference: main map, K16.

For something a little more fast-paced, buckle up in a 4WD and venture onto Cooloola Way in Cooloola National Park. The unsealed road coaxes drivers along with its towering trees and scenic views. Running parallel to the Cooloola Coast, the track provides a welcome alternative to the highway when travelling north to Rainbow Beach. No permits are required to take this rough route.

Map reference: main map, L9.

AfTERNOON DELIGhTs With an aquatic playground within easy reach, what better way to end the day than with a late afternoon swim or surf?

The Sunshine Coast’s sandy shores are the gatekeeper to flawless waters that house an abundance of marine life and can host hours of fun.

Picturesque Granite Bay in Noosa National Park serves up a long point break for keen surfers when the conditions are right. Map reference: noosa to marcoola, P7.

But if you prefer to only share the waves with a few others then head down to the tranquil yaroomba Beach near Coolum. It’s off the main drag so look for the signs along David Low Way. Map reference: main map, N15.

For those wanting to do a few lazy laps or wade the afternoon away, try the sheltered beaches at Mooloolaba Spit, Noosa Main Beach or the Pumicestone Passage.

With kids in tow, you can’t beat the calm waters of Currimundi Lake. It’s a shallow haven with loads of space and a few picnic tables. Peregian Beach is another family favourite and is patrolled all year round.

DAY TWO MORNING MATTERs Ever heard the saying ‘the early bird catches the worm’? Well, on the Sunshine Coast it’s the barbecue and picnic table that will be the reward for getting an early start.

Relax in the bush, by a lake or in a beachfront park while enjoying breakfast cooked on one of the free electric barbecues.

Swing by the innovative Pioneer Park at Landsborough and let the kids run amok while breakfast is being cooked on a nearby hotplate. The award-winning park caters for active bodies and children with disabilities.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, G15 If you’re on the coast, take your pick from Mooloolaba Spit or Cotton Tree Park for a refreshing waterfront position. Each of the parks has playground equipment, barbecues and amenities. Tickle Park at Coolum takes it a step further by also featuring a skate park with a continuous bowl, slide rail and junior half-pipe for the kids.

MIDDAY MOMENTs Leave the land behind and take advantage of the multitude of rivers and lakes that un like veins throughout the region. Hire your choice of vessel and explore the hidden nooks found away from the regular tourist haunts.

Launch your kayak into Lake Cootharaba at Boreen Point and take a guided tour of the tannin-stained Noosa Everglades with Kanu Kapers (5485 3328 or kanukapersaustralia. com). Or, for families who like a bit more freedom, hire a few kayaks for the day at Imbil Kayak and Bike Hire (0400 297 678 or imbilkayakandbike.com) and drift along the Mary River at your own pace.

Pontoons are another way to spend a day on the water, and with built-in barbecues, cushioned seating and a canopy to reflect the

midday sun, they are ideal for larger groups.

Cruise the Pumicestone Passage in comfort with a pontoon from Bill’s Boat Hire (0408 102 100 or billsboathire.com.au) and pull up to your own private beach on Bribie Island.

Prices for a ten-person pontoon begin at $250 for half a day.

Sailing requires a little more skill but is well worth the effort. Run through a short introductory lesson with Maroochy Sail Hire (0419 399 460 or maroochysailhire.com. au) before venturing out into the Maroochy River and letting the wind determine your destination. Two-person catamarans can be hired for as little as $30 an hour, or $70 for three hours.

AfTERNOON DELIGhTs Nothing goes hand-in-hand with a day out on the water quite like fish and chips.

This no-mess feast is an all-time Sunshine Coast favourite with a plethora of takeaway seafood shops delivering mouth-watering results every time.

Eat in or take your paper-wrapped parcel alfresco at Wahoo Seafood Café, Heron Street, Peregian Beach or Stacey’s Kitchen, Weyba Road, Noosaville. In the south, try The Deck on Parkyn, Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba, Point Cartwright Seafoods, Nicklin Way, Warana or Red Crab, Tay Avenue, Caloundra.

With no plates to clean and no walls confining the kids, it’s the perfect way to enjoy an inexpensive dinner at a prime location.

No family night out would be complete without an evening stroll in search of an icycold treat. Wrap your lips around a serve of burnt caramel gelato at Amo Gelato, corner of Thomas Street and Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, or a watermelon and mint sorbet at Colin James Fine Foods, 37 Maple Street, Maleny (closes at 5pm). >

with kids in tow, you can’t beat the calm waters of Noosa River.

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Along the way stop for a tipple at one of the boutique vineyards.

DAY THREE Morning Matters Each week car parks, roads and parks dotted across the region are transformed into bustling markets teeming with fresh produce, fashion, art and delectable food stalls. Indulge the senses and take a pick from one of salt’s favourite early morning stops.

Locals worship the Noosa Farmers’ Market for its wide range of products, including fresh cheese, meat, seafood, home-baked sweets and foreign cuisine. Found on Weyba Road in Noosaville, the markets spring to life on Sunday mornings from 7am and are best visited on an empty stomach.

Map reference: noosa to marcoola, N8.

In Caloundra, the main street plays host to the Bulcock Street Markets every Sunday. Handmade dolls hang beside tie-dye shirts and across from boxes filled with unique jewellery. Wander in the shade of the majestic Moreton Bay Fig Trees while sipping on a velvety coffee from local favourite, Crumbz Café. Tucked away in Centrepoint Plaza on Bulcock Street, Crumbz serves smooth coffee for just $2 before 10am.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, O15.

Kawana Waters Farmers’ Market is the newest kid on the scene and is brimming with organic fruit and vegetables, gourmet condiments and fruity preserves. Musicians add to the relaxed vibe and provide a welcome soundtrack as visitors browse through the stalls. The farmers markets are held every Saturday at the Sportsman’s Parade end of Stern Drive. Map reference: marcoola to glass house, O10 Midday Moments Now that taste buds have been indulged, it’s time to head to the charming Sunshine Coast hinterland where wineries, galleries and panoramic vistas await.

Begin at Maleny, an old dairy town known for its organic atmosphere and friendly locals. On the way into town turn left onto Mountain View Road and continue until you reach Mary Cairncross Reserve, a popular lookout point with views stretching over the Glass House Mountains and beyond.

Map reference: main map, J18 10 salt

A scenic drive from Maleny to the eclectic township of Eumundi is the best way to explore the lively art hub of the region. Visit handfuls of reputable galleries scattered across the hinterland as you venture through Maleny, past Montville, into the deep pockets of the Obi Obi Valley and on to Kenilworth. Art lovers must stop at the leafy, mountain town of Buderim for a superb selection of art galleries that represent both international and national artists. (Refer to the art section starting on page 84 for a selection of art galleries.)

Along the way stop for a tipple at one of the boutique vineyards.

The coast’s wine region is one of Queensland’s fastest growing and a glass of wine at a local vineyard is the perfect way to treat all the senses. For a drop of aromatic Verdelho, crisp Semillon Sauvignon Blanc or rich Shiraz stop by Flame Hill Vineyards (5478 5920 or flamehill.com.au) in Montville. Or pair a delectable meal made up of local produce with a Flaxton Grove wine at Flaxton Gardens (5445 7450 or flaxtongardens.com.au) near Mapleton.

Afternoon Delights Prolong the holiday’s end with a visit to a live music venue, divine restaurant or bustling bar.

Immerse yourself in the region’s laidback lifestyle at one of the Sunshine Coast’s famous open-air concerts. Held on alternate Sundays, Peregian and Nambour Originals are free community events that showcase live music. Spend the afternoon relaxing on the grass, mingling with locals and listening to original tunes.

Satisfy hunger with a gourmet meal at one of the coast’s unique eateries. From historic hotels in the hills to surf clubs and sophisticated beachfront restaurants, the dining options are vast.

Cuisine hotspots worth visiting include Hastings Street and Gympie Terrace in Noosa, Main Street in Buderim and Duporth Avenue in Maroochydore.

If there’s one way to celebrate the end of something it’s with a cocktail or local beer in hand and a late-night dance. If the sound of sleep is a bit too dull, make your way to Mooloolaba. The Esplanade in Mooloolaba is the heart of the Sunshine Coast’s club and bar scene and caters for revellers until the early hours.

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salt takes a fresh approach to the powers that we humans use to experience the world. we look at items that evoke us to see, hear, smell, taste and touch and we’ve thrown in a sense of our own…feel.

Illustration courtesy of twigseeds studio, twigseeds.com.au

taste ThIs fuNkY coloured fry pan, which goes by the brand name of Neoflam, is hot property in the cooking world according to stockist Josh Barry of Organika, Noosaville. “It’s an unbelievable pan to use – I can literally grill a steak on them, and put it under the tap and it’s clean. Also you don’t even need to use oil because they are that non-stick.” The reason behind its popularity is its cast aluminium frame and more importantly its Ecolon™ non-stick coating. In simple terms Ecolon is made from the earth’s natural minerals and clay, which gives this fry pan a green tick for the environment and for your body compared to other non-stick coatings.

Prices start from $59.95 for a small fry pan, up to $89.95.

Available at Organika, 205 weyba Road, Noosaville.

5442 4973 or visit online at organika.com.au

smell DECANT fLAME hill’s Reserve shiraz 2008 and you’ll be treated to the aromas of forest berries and violets. sip on this robust red and your palette will pick up on red currants, spices, white pepper and dark chocolate. This flagship Reserve shiraz was made in limited batches and owner Tony Thompson says that it’s the perfect drop to mark life’s important occasions, “…typically found on a bridal table and a dozen in the cellar to mark each anniversary.” $39.50 per bottle with a limit of three bottles per purchase. Drop into flame hill Vineyard, 249 western Avenue, Montville. 5478 5920 or visit online at flamehillvineyard.com.au

touch ThE suNshINE COAsT Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) touches, enriches and changes the lives of people with disabilities on a daily basis through the power of horses. This is a voluntary, non-profit organisation that enriches the lives of little souls like Lara (pictured) who is eight years old and has Down syndrome. her father Gavin Broadley says that Lara loves the animal interaction. It gives her confidence around horses and physically it’s improved her coordination and balance. The sunshine Coast RDA is in desperate need of donations and a new home for their riding centre. 5447 0450 or visit online at sunshinecoastrda.com 12 salt

hear THE WAIFS are back with a new album titled Temptation, and if you’re a fan of this three-piece Australian folk and blues band made up of sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson and guitarist Josh Cunningham, then it’s been a long wait between drinks. Temptation is their sixth album following on from Sun, Dirt, Water released in 2006 which reached number 2 in the ARIA album charts. For a long time listener of The Waifs, this album is a mature, grown-up version of the band reflecting where life’s journey has taken them since forming in 1992. The album ducks and weaves between southern gospel ballads (Moses and the Lamb) contributed

by Cunningham to subtle, piercing music gems like Buffalo engineered by Thorn. Temptation is stitched with the rootsy, familiar tunes that fans of this iconic Aussie band adore.

Available to download on itunes for $18.99. review by kate johns

see EDEN IS WEST Whilst most films about illegal immigrants are depressing and dour, Eden is West brings a fresh and funny take on the many challenges confronted by a man in search of a better life. Elias (played with quiet wonder by Riccardo Scarmarcio) hops on a rickety boat somewhere in the Aegean Sea, learning basic French from a book, and sets out on a journey to Paris. With the police in constant pursuit he must jump ship and swim to shore, climb fences, hijack a catamaran, steal, beg, prostitute himself, and use an array of other people’s clothes as costumes to fit in.

His encounters are hilarious and yet the undertones of the film, being the decadence of western society and sexuality as a currency, are strikingly omnipresent. There is a beauty in this film found in the moments of determination and optimism and you find yourself hoping with every inch of your soul that Elias will get what he desires. Often surprising, sometimes surreal and outrageous, Eden is West leaves you shocked at both the humanity found on this earth, and conversely, the lack thereof. review by libby munro

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only a local would know f O L LOwING ThE suCCEss Of Peregian Originals, Nambour Originals kicked off with a bang in september and has since become a regular event on the local music scene. set in a lush outdoor amphitheatre at Quota Park, the open air concert falls on every second and fourth sunday of each month. Like its older brother, Nambour Originals showcases local, national and international artists free of charge. Grab a few friends and a picnic rug, and soak up the cruisy atmosphere of what is set to become a sunshine Coast icon. Dates through autumn are April 10 and 24, May 8 and 22, June 12 and 26 and July 10 and 24. 60 Matthew street, Nambour. eastcoastoriginals.org.au Map reference: marcoola to glass house, e4.

A TRus T E D S A LT f O O D I E has thankfully relinquished the dining secret of Pitchfork, a modest-sized restaurant that spills out onto the Peregian Village square. husband and wife team Craig and kim Galea, who are both chefs, opened the restaurant’s doors last August and have had a constant stream of diners to their tables since. we’ve been told the crispy skin duck, kipfler potato, asparagus, pear and Persian fetta salad is the stand out performer on the modern Australian menu. 5471 3697 or pitchforkrestaurant.com.au Map reference: noosa to marcoola, o14.

sEEk AND YOu shALL fIND a beautiful riverside park in the heart of Maroochydore that could easily be forgotten or never found if someone (like salt) didn’t whisper about it. fringing the Maroochy River, this pocket of serenity is a perfect location to roll out the picnic rug on the grass or sand and soak in the autumn sun with its towering Cotton and Gum trees. There are no waves to speak of and it’s a great place to launch a kayak for a paddle, cast a line or a safe spot for children to swim without the rush of waves.

Picnic Point Esplanade, Picnic Point, Maroochydore.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, M5.

hIDDEN I N T h E C R EV I C E s of Buderim’s main street is the pocket-sized Buderim Ginger shoppe owned by hamish Rice, a lover and scout of fine food. Not only does this shop sell Buderim Ginger in every shape and form, it also sells Colin James ice cream, a cabinet full of hard to find cheeses and boutique meats and delectable gourmet provisions, including dukkah, exotic spice blends, marinades and olive oils, that will add sparkle to a picnic hamper or a barbecue feast. shop 8, 61 Burnett street, Buderim. 5445 1035 or buderimgingershoppe.com.au Map reference: marcoola to glass house, L7.

SALT ThINks ThAT A PONTOON BOAT equipped with its very own barbecue is the best thing since sliced bread.

Depending on where you’re located on the sunshine Coast you have the option to cruise up and down the Maroochy or Noosa River where these ingenious boats are available for hire. The novelty will never wear thin when you combine barbecuing, fishing, swimming and relaxing on a boat that chugs along at a gentle pace. swan Boat hire on Maroochy River hires barbecue pontoon boats with a boat that fits 10 people costing $142 for two hours. 59 Bradman Avenue, Maroochydore, 5443 7225 or swanboathire. com.au. Alternatively, O Boat hire on the Noosa River in Noosaville hires barbecue pontoon boats starting at $200 for half-day hire. 222 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5449 7513 or oboathire.com noosa river map reference: noosa to marcoola, M8.

Maroochy river map reference: marcoola to noosa, M5.

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Mo f fat s P i z z a and Ta keaway is a little shop that has fish and chips that are gigantic on flavour. There are rumours of a secret recipe, and this combines with the freshest ingredients to create magic. Fish and Chips Moffat Style gives you two pieces of crumbed sweet lip, a Greek salad, chips, lemon and tartare sauce for $15. Follow up with a home-made gelato, ingest this feast on the breathtaking Moffat waterfront and life does not get sweeter. 8 Seaview Tce, Moffat Beach. 5492 8800.

Map reference: marcoola to glass house, P14.

Cooroy locals love the Noosa Botanic Gardens situated on the shores of Lake Macdonald that sprawl across eight fertile hectares. It is home to a range of native and exotic plants and wildlife including 94 native species of birds. After exploring the winding pathways of the gardens, take the time to explore Lake Macdonald, which can be traversed by canoe, horseback, mountain bike or foot. The lake was constructed in 1965 to supply the area with water and is a popular destination for fishermen ready to catch saratoga, yellowbelly, bass and Mary River cod. The Noosa Botanic Gardens are open 7 days a week and are located on Lake Macdonald Drive, Lake Macdonald.

Map reference: noosa to marcoola, C7.

For t he dirt biking f raternity on the Sunshine Coast you would be seriously out of the loop if you haven’t heard of Park Lands Moto X track outside of Kenilworth. In dirt bike speak if railing berms, slamming whoops, carving up ruts and flying high over jumps is your idea of fun, then this motocross park is your home away from home. It’s a privately owned park that has dirt bike tracks ranging from designated learners’ tracks for the kids to advanced tracks with 100ft table-top jumps for the adrenalin seekers. Open weekends and public holidays from 7am to dusk all year round, weather permitting. $30 for adults and $20 for kids for the day. To ensure the park is open visit parklandsmx.com.au or phone 0400 297 978. Situated at the end of Pullen Lane, Kenilworth.

Map reference: main map, H16.

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treasures in the deep words leigh robshaw

Hidden beneath the surface of our incredible coastline lies a world teeming with an amazing array of life forms.

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Nudibranch

Amazingly, many of these are still unidentified by science. Sure, our beaches are brilliant, but what lies below the breakers is one of the coast’s greatest assets.

Last July, a team of scientists completed a pilot study of the marine area between Noosa and Caloundra and what they found was truly heartening. Diving every day for a week, the team, led by coral specialist Dr Lyndon DeVantier and fish ecologist Dr David Williamson, of James Cook University, assessed the biodiversity and general health of 14 of the coast’s inshore reefs ranging in depth from eight to 22 metres.

The first study of its kind, the Sunshine Coast Marine Biodiversity Assessment was instigated by the Noosa Integrated Catchment Association with support from the Sunshine Coast Regional Council and a number of other organisations.

The team was thrilled to find that in contrast to the coral bleaching and mortality plaguing the Great Barrier Reef, our reefs were thriving.

On completing the study, the scientists had identified 105 species of reef building coral, 222 species of reef-associated fish and 835 species of molluscs, as well as a number of unidentified species.

One of the most exciting discoveries, made by mollusc enthusiast Ian Banks, was a frilly, canary yellow sea slug, which made news around the country. Green and loggerhead turtles were sighted, and at least 16 species of echinoderms, including the rare starfish Echinaster callosus. The team also saw a variety of crustaceans including the slipper lobster (Scyllarids squamosus) and rock lobsters, plus various sponges, ascidians and bryozoans and species of coral that are uncommon or rare on the Great Barrier Reef.

“We were really quite happy with the tallies, particularly the molluscs,” says Dr DeVantier. “The mollusc score was quite exceptional, because molluscs tend to be restricted to certain areas. About 10 percent are endemic from Fraser Island to Coffs Harbour. The 105 species of reef building coral we recorded accounts for about one-eighth of the global total, and about a quarter of those found on the entire Great Barrier Reef.”

While there is limited knowledge of the Sunshine Coast’s offshore reefs, we now have quite an accurate picture of our unique near-shore marine environment.

As you would expect of a coastline famous for its beaches, about 90 percent of the area is sand, but there are patches of harder substrate and sedimentary rocks, which is where most of the underwater action happens.

“The rocky areas have more three-dimensional relief, crevices and caves and also the rock provides a stronger attachment source for the animals and plants that attach themselves to the rock, such as coral and algae,” says Dr DeVantier. “So you get a lot more biodiversity occurring in the rocky areas, which occur in patches all the way down the Sunshine Coast.”

To the naked eye, our coral reefs appear less colourful than tropical reefs because they’re usually more than seven metres deep, and less sunlight reaches them. However, take a torch and an underwater camera down and the full colour spectrum is revealed, especially in the neon shades of the magical sea slugs or nudibranchs.

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Grey nurse shark

H elping ha nds: • Dispose of litter, whether it’s yours or not. Plastic bags take 10 to 20 years to decompose and marine creatures often mistake them for food.

• Don’t release balloons into the air around the coast as they cause many sea turtles and whales to suffocate or starve to death.

• Don’t walk on sand dunes. They are very fragile, help prevent beach erosion and often contain native plants vital to local ecosystems.

• Keep an eye on your dog if you take it to the beach and make sure it’s not digging up turtle eggs.

• Do not pour oil, soapy water or chemicals down stormwater drains, as they eventually end up in the ocean.

• Practice safe boating and watch out for marine life.

• Obey fishing regulations.

• Join or donate to groups such as Turtle Care, Coolum Coast Care, Reef Check, Maroochy Waterwatch and the Noosa Integrated Catchment Care Association.

• If diving in a grey nurse shark-designated area such as Wolf Rock, carry out a volunteer survey (information at derm.qld.gov.au). Report suspicious activities, death or injuries of grey nurse sharks to the Marine Stranding Hotline.

• If you see sick, injured or distressed marine life call the Marine Stranding Hotline on 1300 130 372.

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They’re spectacular; a lot of scuba divers get enamoured by the nudibranchs and on one of our dives we’d see a dozen or more.

They range in size from three or four centimetres to the size of half a fingernail.”

Brett has been diving the Sunshine Coast waters for 12 years, and believes its greatest marine attribute is its diversity, with a mix of fish and coral species from both tropical and temperate regions.

“In winter you’ve also got the whales, which regularly visit dive sites,” says Brett. “We’ve had humpback whales come right underneath our boat at Jew Shoal. I’ve had an interaction with a dolphin where it came right up to me and I felt like it was giving me a full body scan with its sonar. I was in the water with it for about five minutes, which is pretty exceptional.”

Brett says he sees marine turtles on about 85 percent of his dives.

The main species of turtle nesting on Sunshine Coast beaches are the loggerhead turtle and, less frequently, the green turtle.

Community groups such as Turtle Care Sunshine Coast and Coolum District Coast Care work to protect the nests of marine turtles on Sunshine Coast beaches, monitoring nesting activity and hatching, and protecting nests from fox and dog predation.

Volunteers from these groups also take sick and injured turtles to Underwater World and Australia zoo for rehabilitation.

It is rare to see sharks while diving on the coast, although our waters do harbour wobbegongs, tiger sharks, bull sharks, bronze whalers, hammerheads and the critically endangered grey nurse shark, found mainly at the mating site of Wolf Rock, off Double Island Point, the next headland north of Noosa.

A popular scuba diving site, this set of four volcanic pinnacles was declared a protected area in 2003 and includes pregnant female grey nurse sharks, critically important in maintaining future viability of this threatened species.

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Due to the popularity of recreational and commercial fishing on the coast, stocks of fishery target species, such as the pink snapper, are low. A push to see fish stocks return to healthier levels is on, led by the Sunshine Coast Marine Conservation Alliance, comprising 15 community groups. The Alliance has made submissions to the state and federal governments for the establishment of a multiple-use marine park between Caloundra and Double Island Point.

Narelle McCarthy, campaigns manager at the Sunshine Coast Environment Council, says proposals to establish a multiple-use marine park must have a scientific basis as well as input from the community.

“It’s important people understand this is about ensuring the sustainability of our marine environment and it’s not about stopping fishing,” says Narelle. “It’s about recognising that some areas need a greater level of protection to give them an opportunity to recover.”

With the Great Sandy Marine Park to the north, and the Moreton Bay Marine Park to the south of the Sunshine Coast, conservationists say a marine park here would close the gap, helping protect the future of the Sunshine Coast marine environment. As the core of our tourism industry, it could be worth tens of millions of dollars annually.

Tourism aside, there’s another important reason to look after our marine environment. If our oceans continue to warm in coming years as scientists predict, the Sunshine Coast could one day become an important refuge for Great Barrier Reef species that can no longer survive in inhospitable waters. We are already seeing an increase of tropical species and a decrease of temperate species in our waters.

The Sunshine Coast offers a significant opportunity for scientists to gain a greater understanding of how our fascinating marine life will adapt to future changes in climate. nudibranch.com.au

diVin g goLd: Jew SH oA L Located in Noosa’s Laguna Bay and reachable by boat in 20 minutes, Jew shoal boasts a beautiful variety of coral, fish, nudibranchs and the occasional manta ray or grey nurse shark. inner g n e e r i n g S Just offshore from Mooloolaba, this is a vast coral network with numerous dive sites abundant in marine life.

HMA S b r i S b A n e The largest diveable wreck in Queensland, this decommissioned warship rests under 28 metres of water about 2.8 nautical miles due east of Mudjimba Island. woLF r o C k Located at Double Island point, this is one of Australia’s top dives due to its protected status as a breeding ground for grey nurse sharks.

MudJiM b A i S L A n d Located close to shore, Mudjimba Island offers excellent diving and snorkelling with corals, sea anemones, nudibranchs, tropical fish, moray eels and more to view.

(Note that the recent 2011 flooding has caused coral bleaching at some sunshine Coast sites since the Marine Biodiversity Assessment was completed. Although not as severe as bleaching further north, Mudjimba Island is one area that has been reportedly affected).

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calendar of events

april greek cooking classes Experience true Greek hospitality and learn how to make authentic, delicious Greek dishes at a cooking class with a difference.

Learn how to prepare food fit for the gods, then enjoy savouring the results. when April 10, May 15 and June 5 where Maleny Mountain Wines, 787 Landsborough-Maleny Road, Maleny cost $80 per person, includes all food malenymountainwines.com.au

Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival Immerse yourself in this unique community event while sampling gourmet cheeses, delicious yoghurt and the region’s finest wines and beers. Talented local chefs will host cooking demonstrations alongside of Queensland’s only cheese rolling contest. when April 23 where Kenilworth cost Free kenilworthfoodfest.org.au

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Remember those who were lost in war by taking part in one of the many ANZAC Day ceremonies across the Sunshine Coast. If you can’t pull yourself out of bed to make the dawn service, there are marches and services held throughout the day. when April 25 where Kings Beach park, Caloundra; Maleny Memorial Hall, 1 Bunya Street, Maleny or Memorial Triangle, Diamond Street, Cooroy.

To celebrate David Williamson’s 40 years as a writer, Noosa Arts Theatre will stage his scathing and bitingly funny play about the media personalities that dominate our lives. when Performance dates fall between April 15 and 29 where Noosa Arts Theatre, 163 Weyba Road, Noosaville cost $26 noosaartstheatre.org.au

exploredreamdiscover Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow The Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s most adventurous comedians are hitting the road and making their way to the Sunshine Coast. Brace yourself for a night full of humourous gags and laugh-out-loud moments. when May 21 where Nambour Civic Centre, Currie Street, Nambour cost $42 nambourciviccentre.com.au

Dingo Creek Wine, Jazz and Blues Festival Pack the tent, jump in the car and head to Dingo Creek Vineyard for a weekend of moody blues and sultry jazz tunes.

John Morrison, Janet Seidel Trio, Willy Qua and Police Band of Blue are just some of the leading musicians set to take the stage. when April 30 to May 1 where 265 Tandur Traveston Road, Traveston cost Tickets start at $60. Camping is free. dingocreek.com.au

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Kings of the Coast Whether you’re a competitive swimmer or a weekend warrior, set your sights on Kings of the Coast and test your mettle in this ultimate open water challenge. when May 29 where Caloundra cost Entry fees start at $30 weekendwarriorevents.com.au

may Audi Noosa Food and Wine Festival Experience true Greek hospitality and learn how to make authentic, delicious Greek dishes at a cooking class with a difference.

Learn how to prepare food fit for the gods, then enjoy savouring the results. when May 13 to 15 where Noosa Heads cost Ticket prices vary celebrationofaustralianfoodandwine.com.au

Maleny Wood Expo Smell the spicy aroma of newly milled timber, watch woodworking demonstrations and shop for sustainable alternatives for the home at this familyfriendly event. when April 30 to May 1 where Maleny Showgrounds, MalenyStanley River Road, Maleny malenywoodexpo.com.au

june Bollywood Dancing Workshop As part of the Noosa Longweekend Festival the Bollywood Dreams team is back. Join in the fun as professional Bollywood dance specialists teach you a stylised Bollywood routine. when June 18 where Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Eumundi Road, Noosaville cost $50 noosalongweekend.com

A Taste of Coolum Combining wine tastings, degustation dinner and golf, this annual three-day event is guaranteed to whet the appetite of anyone who loves a true gourmet experience. when June 24 to 26 where Hyatt Regency Coolum, Warran Road, Coolum cost ticket prices vary coolumevents.com

Soweto Gospel Choir Let the Soweto Gospel Choir transport you to Africa with their infectious rhythms, earthy harmonies and colourful attire. The 52-strong choir has gained international acclaim for its performances and is set to dazzle the region. when June 8 where The Events Centre, 20 Minchinton St, Caloundra cost $84 theeventscentre.com

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growing with a garden words leigh robshaw photos kate johns

Garrey Foulkes has volunteered 17 years of his life to building the Garden of Enlightenment at the Chenrezig Institute for Buddhist Studies in Eudlo.

Now, as a reward he would never have expected, just as it nears completion, the garden has been chosen as the place that will host the Dalai Lama’s address to the Sunshine Coast on June 16.

A straight talker with a dry sense of humour, Garrey is not one to beat his own drum. The most you’ll get out of him about the Dalai Lama visiting what is essentially his life’s work is this: “It’s like a huge cherry on the cake – it’s fantastic.”

He would rather emphasise the role Chenrezig plays in the community in helping people find happiness in their lives, whether Buddhists or not.

“I think it’s just very important to put the whole thing under an umbrella of what Chenrezig can do to benefit the local community rather than make it about ‘Garrey’s extraordinary achievement’,” he says. He also points out the garden is simply a stepping stone leading to the Dalai Lama’s visit to the coast, and that he is not coming primarily to consecrate the garden.

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to achieve. To an extent, we’ve grown up and it feels like blockages have been cleared away.”

Garrey acknowledges Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, to which Chenrezig belongs, for having sent many invitations to the Dalai Lama to visit the institute.

“It’s very rare for His Holiness to visit specific centres, so it’s a very great honour, and I think it means something very important and significant for the whole region,” he says.

Of the 3500 people who will attend, 500 will be year 11 and 12 students from Sunshine Coast state, independent and religious schools.

Lama Zopa supplied the original plan for the garden, however it has evolved organically as people have contributed ideas, with questions answered by the mother centre in Nepal in order to retain authenticity.

Originally an artist who took up building, Garrey along with his wife Krissie became interested in Tibetan Buddhism in the 1970s, and lived at Chenrezig for ten years, where they raised two daughters. Garrey says he put his hand up for the garden project without “the vaguest idea it would take this long”.

“I probably wouldn’t have done it if I’d known it would take nearly 18 years, but I’m hugely grateful it has happened that way. It’s been an extraordinary opportunity.

When you make a commitment to do something, whether it’s write a book or have a child, you know in your mind if you back out of that you’re a bit of a wimp and you’ve let people down including yourself.”

The garden initially got off to a slow start due to lack of funds, so organisers decided to raise money by supplying stupas for people to put their loved ones’ ashes under, effectively making it into a memorial garden. (Stupas are spiritual monuments representing the Buddha’s enlightened mind, filled with texts and precious relics.)

“It was a bit difficult in the beginning. We were selling off the plan, trying to convince people it would be beautiful and would be finished one day, but people had nothing to see,” he says.

Today, it is a sight to behold, with tranquil gardens featuring winding paths and Buddha statues, traditional Tibetan artworks and a multitude of stupas.

“I have to be honest and say there were ups and downs and times when it was difficult to keep heartened and not to get negative towards people who I felt should have been helping but weren’t,” says Garrey. “From a Buddhist point of view, that’s considered a great opportunity to develop your practice, to have enemies or people who frustrate you to work with.

“On a happier note, it’s a project that has involved hundreds of other people and tens of thousands of hours of people’s time. It has given large numbers of people the opportunity to create merit for the future, which is very important from a Buddhist point of view.”

Garrey says at least ten people have been consistent physical or financial helpers since the project began, and another 30 have contributed to a lesser extent. The project has come at a high personal cost to Garrey and Krissie, having had a significant impact on their social and financial lives.

“Krissie has displayed incredible patience over the years,” says Garrey. “Most partners would have clubbed me to death!”

Having said that, Garrey’s attitude to his chosen path and the personal fulfillment it has brought him speaks volumes about the integrity of his Buddhist principles.

“If you spend half your time working and you drive a Holden, and the other half of your time working as a volunteer creating some sort of merit, you have to weigh that up against not doing any voluntary work at all in order to drive a Mercedes. To me, that’s no deal.

“To others, they want to get the biggest and best before they die. It’s like people who work for Meals on Wheels or work in hospices; they get more joy out of life than people who drive expensive cars and go to restaurants six nights a week. It’s simple: they’re helping people.”

Visitors are welcome at Chenrezig Institute from Wednesday through to Sunday; drop in for a teaching or some meditation time and make sure your visit includes a sweet Chai and vegetarian meal at The Big Love Café.

Chenrezig Institute hopes to receive assistance from the Sunshine Coast Council and other local organisations to help make the upcoming visit of the Dalai Lama a success. If you would like to become involved, please contact the Institute on 5453 2108 or visit chenrezig.com.au

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pursuit of passion

street art sends right signal words frances frangenheim photos kate johns

The humble traffic signal box is often overlooked.

A ubiquitous piece of infrastructure, it sits at roadsides and intersections in cities throughout the world, its dull grey metal exterior just crying out for a splash of colour.

Enter Urban Smart Projects, a community art initiative run by energetic Maleny locals Catherine Ovenden and Nicole Gaunt.

Their mission is to bring colour and art to cities and help fight graffiti in positive ways. The idea is simple: invite residents to paint their local traffic boxes with original designs that reflect the vibrancy, character and stories of their community.

Catherine won the tender for the Brisbane City Council ‘paint a box’ initiative in 2003 and with Nicole’s help has expanded the project to cities across Australia, and recently in the United Kingdom in London and York. Plans are afoot for the Sunshine Coast to get on board, where the council will call for artists, both amateur and professional, and of any age, to get involved.

The Sunshine Coast isn’t new to the concept. Urban Smart Projects partnered with the Queensland Government Department of Main Roads in 2007 and invited individuals and school groups to paint more than 30 boxes dotted around Buderim, Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour and Coolum.

Catherine and Nicole say the feedback and stories that come from participants is what makes their job so worthwhile.

“Everyone that paints a box has such a great time and they tell you fantastic stories about someone bringing them a cold drink, or holding an umbrella to give them shade, or even meeting their neighbour they’ve lived beside for 10 years but never spoken to.

These are the things that make cities in these modern times just a little bit friendlier. It’s really great,” Catherine says.

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for approval. Once approved, they can whiz through the remaining steps online to get painting in a matter of days, if they choose.

Participating artists receive an equipment pack, including safety gear and quality paint, in the post. The final step after painting their box is to snap a photo of their masterpiece and upload it to Urban Smart Projects’ website gallery.

This seamless online and postal process allows Catherine and Nicole to run the program beyond their physical location – an important development for growing the brand. They recall just a few years ago they were based in a sweet little studio at Metro Arts in Brisbane so they could drive all over town delivering paint to participants.

These days Catherine’s time is better spent meeting with councils and organisations all over the world to spark new partnerships while Nicole expertly tackles the mountains of paperwork and admin issues. Successful partnerships include city councils on the Gold Coast and in Redlands, Hobart and Manningham, Victoria, as well as with state government bodies.

Urban Smart Projects’ first overseas contract was secured in London last year with a community-focused government program, New Deal for Communities, to paint 20 Virgin Media broadband boxes. The Kirkless City Council was so impressed they may sign up. Catherine explains the New Deal project came about because one of its staff members had painted a box in Brisbane more than six years ago.

“Isn’t that amazing!” she marvels.

Catherine says the initiative is a win-win for government and not-for-profits because it ticks all boxes of community safety, community participation, youth development, graffiti reduction and crime prevention. Catherine is chuffed to note Urban Smart Projects won a Certificate of Merit in the 2010 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards. Interestingly, graffiti taggers seem to appreciate beauty – they tend not to tag painted boxes. >

Running the initiative online also allows Catherine and Nicole to live in their dream location of Maleny. Catherine says their lives are healthier now they “live in the clouds”: they play tennis, canoe on the Mary River and love to ride pushbikes, even in the rain.

“We cycle down the mountain from Maleny to Conondale and Little Yabba Creek near Kenilworth. It’s all downhill across quiet roads and creek crossings in the most beautiful countryside,” she says.

Catherine also plays the fiddle in a local band at Maleny’s much-loved live music venues, the Upfront Club and Finbar’s Irish Bar. While Catherine and Nicole may have moved away from the buzz of the city, they show no signs of slowing down. Urban Smart Projects has managed the painting of almost 2000 traffic signal boxes by people of all ages and levels of talent and Catherine’s vision is to see Urban Smart Projects humming in cities all over the world.

“Traffic signal boxes are the one piece of human infrastructure in cities that are the perfect canvas size, and when left bare they are always tagged and damaged,” she states. “So if they can enliven the cityscape and allow communities to take a bit of ownership, then it’s such great value for money.” urbansmartprojects.com for extra salt visit saltmagazine.com.au as our friends at Urban Smart Projects are giving away a handful of Brisbane Traffic Art 1 books. The book is a delightful and vibrant suburb-by-suburb guide through Brisbane featuring over 100 original artworks on Traffic Signal Boxes.

pageturners For relaxation, stimulation and pure escapism, nothing beats losing yourself in a good book. salt reviews five of the best latest releases.

Great Aussie Inventions Amy Hunter, illustrations by David Rowe | Black Dog Books | $16.99 paperback

The latest on the Our Stories series looks at how Australian inventions have changed the world. Aussies have invented so many useful things, like the black box flight recorder, the stump cam, spray-on skin, the baby capsule, the lawn mower and Hills Hoist.

Necessity is the mother of invention and when white settlers first came to Australia they relied on creative solutions to their problems.

This little book takes children into the brilliant world of Aussie inventions, the people who thought of them and why Australia is one of the world’s most inventive nations.

The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship Lisa Verge Higgins | Allen & Unwin | $27.99 paperback

Friendship between a group of four women has lasted a lifetime. But after one of them dies, the remaining three find they have been left letters from their friend asking them to fulfil favours and challenging them to overcome their worst fears.

The three are as different as can be: one is a devoted stay-athome mum, the second a heartbroken aid worker and the last a happily single career woman.

But through the challenges their friend sets them, the three women discover that they have not appreciated the gifts they have, and need to discover what is real about themselves.

This is a mostly gentle, sometimes profound story of women’s friendship. It is sure to become a book club favourite.

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THE COLONY Grace Karskens | Allen & Unwin | $59.99 hard cover

A groundbreaking history of the beginnings of white Australia in the colony of Sydney in its early years.

It was a time of enormous energy and invention in one of the world’s most beautiful and unforgiving landscapes.

The Colony traces the way that relationships between colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke old moulds, and explores the ways settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined.

A fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place, this book is more than a history lesson, but also offers opportunity for imagination and understanding to grow.

Winner of the non-fiction prize in the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

The One Before the One Katy Regan | HarperCollins | $24.99 paperback

Caroline has a to-do list that includes plucking her eyebrows, doing something cultural every week and dumping her married boyfriend.

She feels like her life is sorted, and her career is going well, but then her teenage half-sister Lexi arrives unexpectedly for the summer and it is plain Caroline’s life is not as happy as it seems.

And Lexi, the product of their father’s extra-marital affair, is a living reminder about Caroline’s unhappy childhood. As the summer wears on, Caroline finds she has much to learn – even from one much younger – about how to really live.

This novel is funny, fresh and thoughtful.

LOST Bindi Irwin and various | R andom House | $9.99 paperback

A tourist goes missing in Kakadu National Park and volunteers are called in to help in the search. Bindi and her Aboriginal friend take a different route from the others when they spot a sulphur-crested cockatoo that seems to want to show them something.

The cocky leads them to the tourist but then disappears. And they need it to help find their way back.

The latest in Bindi’s series will appeal to wildlife-loving children.

Each book in the series also includes child-friendly information about the animals in the story.

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a river runs through it words frances frangenheim photos anastasia kariofyllidis

As I stand with my feet in Noosaville’s sandy shoreline – tiny breathless waves lapping at my ankles and above, dove-white clouds puffing nonchalantly across the sky – it is clear I am far from alone.

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precinct feature IT’S STILL EARLy in the morning but Gympie Terrace’s riverfront esplanade is already humming with gentle activity.

A carnival-like scene, minus the fairy floss and ferris wheels, plays out before me. Families tumble out of cars, laden with towels, fishing rods, picnic baskets and umbrellas. Children zip back and forth between the riverfront beaches, parks and playground equipment, squealing with delight at all the options – it is kiddie paradise here.

Cyclists whiz past and joggers pound the pavement, some with panting dogs on leads following faithfully at their feet. The smell of bacon sizzling on an outdoor barbecue competes with the exhilarating scent of salty breezes sliding off the river.

Professional and amateur boaties and fishermen take to the river on catamarans, canoes, runabouts, cruisers, jet skis and gondolas; some hire their watercraft from the handful of boat hire companies perched on the riverbanks while others launch from boat ramps or their private jetties. Across the road a steady stream of cafés, restaurants, fashion boutiques, gelatarias and holiday apartments are doing a roaring trade.

All these signs remind me that while Noosaville may have once been considered a pit stop on the way to Noosa Heads’ Hastings Street, these days it is a destination in its own right. It’s also known as the safest and most accessible launch pad to explore the Noosa River and its riverfront suburbs like Tewantin, Noosa Sound and Noosa Heads, as well as upstream to the wetlands and lakes, and downstream to the canals and river mouth at Laguna Bay. A holiday vibe sustains itself throughout the year, not just because Noosaville is a tourist mecca but also because local residents approach the outdoors with the childlike excitement of those on holidays. >

MeAndering neAr THe riVer: • Visit Noosa Marina’s local produce and art and craft market, which is held every sunday from 8am to 2pm.

• Join Noosa Everglades for an afternoon eco boat tour or canoe expedition. Let expert staff guide you through Noosa River’s calm river waters, which are important feeding grounds for migratory shorebirds and home to rare and threatened species including sea turtles, dugong and inshore dolphins.

• Get a photo with the Big Pelican on Gympie Terrace. At more than three metres tall, this lovable mascot is hard to miss. A storyboard tells the story of ‘Percy the Pelican’, a remnant of the 1977 festival of the waters Parade that was restored by the owners of Pelican Boat hire in the 1990s. will it make a guest appearance at this year’s Noosa River fest?

• Mark June 4 to 5 in your diary for the Noosa River fest Regatta and Boat show at Noosaville Lions Park with its opening parade of floats, as well as live music and entertainment, food stalls, charity drives, rowing regattas, a boating and marine show, jumping castles for the kids and more.

• have your children always wanted to learn to sail? sign them up for an after-school or holiday program at the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club. The Youthsail program teaches more than 150 kids of all ages weekly.

• Don your walking shoes and follow the stunning river walk from Noosa sound west along Gympie Terrace to Tewantin.

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Feeding f renzy: Gympie Terrace on Noosaville is fast becoming known as the place to dine on the Sunshine Coast. With its river views, there is a plethora of restaurants and eateries to choose from. Here are salt’s recommendations: • Thomas Corner Eatery (5470 2224) is David and Belinda Rayner’s newest venture. Positioned on the corner of Thomas Street and Gympie Terrace, the eatery is a twotiered building with varied spaces from shared tables to private nooks with gentle river breezes. The staff is superb, the cocktails are dangerous and the food is clean and fresh. Our personal pick from the lunch menu is the Moreton Bay bugs, chilled melon, mint, lemon flake and limoncello dressing.

• As the sun melts below the river, make a beeline to the IS Tapas Bar on Gympie Terrace, Noosaville (5447 1818). salt highly recommends ordering the tapas share plate for two which includes baked scallops, tempura vegetable skewers, duck rolls, Moroccan chicken skewers, paprika calamari, crumbed olives, lime prawns and a carafe of chilled sangria for $67.

• For a great breakfast haunt, take your daily newspapers and head to Sirocco at 257 Gympie Terrace (5455 6688) to soak up the river views and morning sun. Delights on the breakfast menu include baked Spanish omelette with fireroasted capsicum, chat potato, Persian feta, peas, shallots, basil pesto and Turkish pide. Don’t worry if you can’t make breakfast – this delectable riverside restaurant is open for lunch and dinner as well.

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When I speak to the Noosa Ferry’s skipper of seven years, Arthur Waye, it’s clear he and his wife Jan also feel the magnetic pull of the river and find it easy to enjoy the simple life here. “We live on Gympie Terrace and we have our own boat so we’re always on the river. We throw out crab pots, we fish; it’s a wonderful life,” Arthur says.

Arthur says he has a passion for skippering the ferry, which runs daily from morning until evening. He delivers passengers to four stops between the Sheraton at Noosa Heads and the Noosa Marina at Tewantin – a two-minute drive west from Noosaville and home to an eclectic mix of restaurants, fashion boutiques, day spas and homeware boutiques, as well as a Sunday morning outdoor market and the Noosa Regional Gallery nearby.

“The most precious time of day is dusk when the birds go crazy,” Arthur says.

The bird life is extraordinary on the Noosa River and if you keep your eyes peeled you can spot black cormorants, white-faced herons, white-winged terns and other exotic native species. Arthur’s favourite weekly ritual is to be a passenger for a change on the Friday sunset ferry and share champagne and snacks with his wife as they watch the sun go down.

One of the ferry stops is at Quamby Place at Noosa Sound, a hidden pocket of the coast where leafy Sound Park is perched on the riverbank beside shops and award-winning restaurants. The complex enjoys a peaceful, village vibe every day but locals and visitors find Sunday afternoons particularly relaxing as live music floats up into the trees while diners enjoy their meals on the outdoor terrace and kids entertain themselves on the park’s impressive playground equipment. >

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Retail roam ing: • Swing past Quamby Place at Noosa Sound and visit bespoke jeweller Gordon Herford (5455 4899) and his artist wife Belinda (5474 8008) who own a boutique gallery and jewellery studio cheek-to-cheek.

They display exquisite, one-off jewellery pieces and thought-provoking art.

• Take some time to cruise the individual shops along Gympie Terrace at Noosaville, paying particular attention to our salt favourites.

For the best in seasonal fashion, including exclusive European labels, visit Zambezee Boutique on the corner of Gympie Terrace and Thomas Street (5474 3125).

For those with a shoe fetish look for the bright green sign sporting the name ‘Get Set Footwear’, which stocks your favourite labels like Birkenstock, Crocs and Skechers situated at 230 Gympie Terrace (5447 1755).

And for all things white and beautiful make a special trip to The White House either at the Noosa Marina or on the corner of Gympie Terrace and Thomas Street, Noosaville (5474 2377 or 5449 7078). The twin shops pay homage to the colour white with homewares, clothes, jewels and trinkets filling every available spaces.

Another local with a passion for the Noosa River is tour operator Wade Batty. His company takes eco boat and canoe tours daily from Noosaville upstream to the wetlands, known as the Everglades, which are a nature lover’s paradise.

and its surrounds. While the area was settled in the 1870s as the timber felling and saw milling industry gathered pace, Noosaville’s population began to grow from the early 1900s when gold miners and timber-getters flocked to “set up stumps” or holiday here.

“It’s magnificent; one of the world’s most pristine river systems.

Believe it or not there are more bird species up there than Kakadu,” Wade says proudly of the river’s environmental value.

Historians tell of residents sitting peacefully on their verandas at sunset, watching the passing parade of boats. Many would cast crab pots in the morning and fish from their private jetties. Most Noosaville residents owned boats because the only access was by water until connecting roads were built to Tewantin and Noosa Heads in 1929. >

Reading historical accounts of Noosa’s early settler days, I wonder if much has changed in the way locals and visitors relish Noosa River

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precinct feature MAP iT ouT: Noosa River covers 784 square kilometres of catchment and its northern borders are protected by the Great sandy National Park. The river begins in the Como Escarpment and meets Teewah Creek, then flows south across the Noosa Plain between Lakes Como and Cooloola before entering Lake fig Tree and Lake Cootharaba with its popular camp grounds at Boreen Point and Elanda Point. The river continues to Lake Cooroibah and Lake weyba before it meets the sea at Laguna Bay, just north of Noosa’s Main Beach.

The river’s upper reach is home to an important ecological area of wetlands, known as the Everglades. It is part of Cooloola National Park, which is encompassed by the Great sandy National Park, home to the largest tract (56,600 hectares) of natural land on Queensland’s southern coast.

Much like swampland, water flows constantly yet slowly through the wetlands’ partially forested marshes of sea grasses and mangroves as fish, frogs, birdlife and goannas patrol the riverbanks and water for food. known as the ‘river of mirrors’, the Everglades’ still surface is a photographer’s dream as it is almost black from tree bark deposits and reflects the sky and tall grasses, twisted tea trees and lush palms that line its banks. The Noosa River sustains more than 44 percent of Australia’s bird species so you can expect to see some impressive winged wonders, including several kinds of kite, herons, lorikeets, kingfishers, ospreys, egrets, darters and black swans.

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VERGE GEORGE ANDIAMO HARRY WHO MELA PURDIE SACHA DRAKE NYDJ JEANS The Massouds built the first café in the district and the building still stands today as Maisie’s restaurant. Michael Massoud tells me to visit the quaint white and pea-green weatherboard cottage at 247 Gympie Terrace, named after his aunt Maisie, who helped her parents run the café in those early days. Maisie passed away in 2005 but her warm spirit is said to live on at this hearty eatery.

I peer into the front window of Maisie’s restaurant, where a display of old photos and stories tells of the early days. It notes the café was known as “The Favourite” and operated throughout the Depression and World War II, never suffering from war rationing because troops in the area would source what stocks the Massouds’ needed. In return, the Massoud family would spontaneously roll the pianola out onto the dirt track that was Gympie Terrace and entertain the troops.

I’m told Gympie Terrace will again come alive with music when the Noosa River Fest Regatta and Boat Show is held at Noosaville on June 4 and 5. Event organiser Brendan Weatherill explains the free festival will bring together charities and people of all ages and interests to celebrate on the streets and along the riverbanks. Organisers are aiming for a record crowd of 14,000.

Just another reason to make Noosaville your destination.

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iSLAnd in THe STreAM: Makepeace Island is set in the middle of the Noosa River just upstream from Tewantin and is only accessible by boat or, if you’re Richard Branson, by helicopter. Its namesake, hannah Makepeace, lived there from 1924 until 1973 when she died soon after her eighty-ninth birthday. known as quite the character with a youthful spirit well into her eighties, Miss Makepeace would row her boat almost daily to the mainland to collect her mail and pick up groceries, apparently carting her goods back in a suitcase.

Makepeace Island’s first recorded owners were Mr and Mrs Charles Nicholas, colonial settlers from hobart. In 1911, the Nicholas’ built a unique classic Queenslander style home with open verandahs to take advantage of the Noosa River views.

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At the time the heart-shaped isle was less romantically known as Pig Island, as it was used as a quarantine station for pigs. hannah Makepeace moved from Ipswich to the island in 1924 to work as housekeeper for the Nicholases. she later inherited the island from her long-term employer, apparently as a thank you for her hard work. In 2001, author sally De Dear published a fictional story for young adults, ‘The house on Pig Island’, using Miss Makepeace’ name and character.

In the front of her book De Dear notes, “I never met her but her name was often mentioned by school friends and I remember how fascinated I was that such an old lady could live by herself on an island and row her boat to Tewantin every day.

I remember kids telling me that her house was like a museum and

thus the seed of a story was germinated.”

Miss Makepeace died in 1973 and is honoured with a display at Noosa Museum in Pomona. having no children, her island went to the state.

It was bought in the early 1980s by internationally-acclaimed artist Brian spencer who lived there with his wife Beverley for 17 years, capturing the natural beauty of his surrounds – dawns, sunsets, pelicans, kookaburras and lorikeets – in his dynamic, spirited paintings.

In 2003 the 23-acre island was purchased by Virgin tycoon Richard Branson and co-owners as a luxury eco-tourism retreat for Virgin staff and select guests. The island is offlimits to the public, which only adds to its mystique as it enjoys yet another life.

Left: Howard Parkyn and friends with his record breaking grouper caught in the noosa river, Tewantin, 1935. howard, assisted by his friend Alex Gibson, landed the 454lb (206kg) grouper. The catch established a Queensland record for this type of fish at the time. It was caught near the old salt water swimming baths, adjacent to the present site of Noosa Marina (harbour Town). below: evans and crew with a catch of trevally, noosa river, 1947 since the early years of settlement, the Noosa River system has attracted large numbers of fishermen. Recreational fishing from boats or from the foreshores became a popular pastime and sports fishermen regularly fished the upper reaches of the river. Bass, bream, whiting, mackerel, flathead and tailor were the main species targeted. with the introduction of the fish supply Management Act of 1935, those engaged in the fishing industry in the Noosa district were required to sell their catch to the local fish Board’s depot instead of selling direct to local vendors or transporting to the markets in Brisbane.

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The last thing kieran Reekie ever wanted to be was a chef.

NOW, AS CO-OWNER and chef at Reserve Restaurant and Cellar, one of the hinterland’s premium fine dining establishments, there is no place on earth or in life he’d rather be.

Kieran’s straight-talking, easy-going demeanour belies his fanatical attention to detail and pursuit of culinary perfection which has seen Reserve win wide acclaim for its classically styled menu, and Kieran’s specialty – lunch and dinner degustation.

He describes the food style as “officially contemporary Australian”, but with a heavy classical French and Italian influence.

This explains such delights on the menu as risotto of black truffle and mushrooms with fresh goat’s curd and micro herbs, and ballotine of chicken and fennel salami with mash, sautéed chanterelles and jus gras.

Taking science and maths subjects and finishing year 12 at the age of 15, Kieran found himself “a bit of a lost sort of kid”.

“My dad being a chef was the biggest influence for me not to be a chef!” he says.

“I hated studying so hard, and my weekends were filled with working in Dad’s restaurant, and I hated that too. After I finished school, there were no opportunities in Darwin.

“Dad decided he’d had a gutful of me being a bludger, and saying ‘have you got a job yet?’ So he made a phone call to Sydney Tatt’s (Tattersall’s Club) and asked them if they had space for a first-year apprentice.”

Kieran’s dad’s phone call – to the place where he had completed his own apprenticeship – changed the course of his son’s life. But he had no intention of making Kieran’s new start too easy. >

The cellar at Reserve houses “a hell of a lot of wine” and is the cornerstone which directs Kieran’s food philosophy.

“The cellar underpins everything we do,” he says.

“We don’t put together a dish that can’t be matched with the wines.

We try to keep everything reasonably pure. That’s not to say we’re not creative, not by any stretch. We’re always looking for classic combinations and trying to do them differently. What we’re not doing is we’re not taking a classic combination and then bastardising it. I don’t change the combinations. They’re important for wine matching.

“The reason combinations are classic is because they’re perfect. At the end of the day, if I take an aniseed/shellfish combination, it doesn’t matter what form of aniseed I use. In 1960 it was Pernod, in 1970 it was ouzo, today it might be fresh star anise. So the combinations are exactly the same but the products are slightly different.”

Kieran’s business partner and co-owner of Reserve is sommelier and restaurateur Stephen Heffernan, who is also a qualified chef.

“Nothing goes onto the wine list unless Steve and I have both tasted it and both agree on it. Same goes for the food. I write a menu, and then I consult him.”

It’s hard to imagine Kieran, 37, doing anything else, yet as a “bit of a brainiac” kid growing up in Darwin and the son of a chef, he had no intention of following in his father’s footsteps.

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“My dad being a chef was the biggest influence for me not to be a chef!�

Harry's Lane (off Lindsay Rd) Buderim Q 4556 | Ph: 5445 6661 | Email: info@harrysonbuderim.com.au Business hours: Lunch Wed - Sun 12noon - 2pm | Dinner Wed - Sat from 6pm | Available for functions & weddings

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His attention was peaked about four years ago by the charming but vacant three-level Queenslander at the top of the range.

Despite Kieran’s best-laid plans (“I never really wanted to own a restaurant”), he joined professional forces with Steve, and Reserve was born.

The pair converted the Queenslander into a 40-seat fine dining restaurant on the street level, with a crisp modern ambience which is tempered with rustic warmth and impressive mountain views from every table. Huge local spotted gum posts are a stunning feature, as are the chunky beams which came from Kenilworth, and original timber flooring believed to be from the Fraser Coast area.

Downstairs is the state of the art cellar which is also used for private parties. The top level is a residence, where Kieran lives with his wife and two boys, aged seven and eight.

Coconut milk panna cotta with coconut rum jelly, fresh mango and Madeleines

“Dad bought me a bus ticket – he didn’t buy me a plane ticket! Darwin to Sydney is a long way, especially when the air conditioning broke down in Cloncurry. That was traumatic.”

In Sydney, the Tattersall’s Club opened Kieran’s eyes to a new and exciting world of dining.

“It had a big silver service dining room, and the maitre d’ wore a top hat and tails,” he says. “Everything was done to the letter. I realised it was fun. Not only that, I was getting paid properly – Dad used to give me five bucks for a weekend of work!”

After finishing his apprenticeship, Kieran “buggered off to London for a couple of years”, further honing his culinary skills before returning to Australia and firmly establishing a name for himself in both the Sydney and then the Sunshine Coast’s fine dining scenes.

Not content to rest on Reserve’s laurels, Kieran has recently opened another restaurant at Twin Waters, The Loose Goose, which he co-owns with Steve and another chef, Carl Mitaros, who heads the kitchen there. Kieran describes this venture as “a whimsical extension of Reserve”, but one which is “really making its own name”.

Achieving such ongoing success in his profession, and with his family now happily settled in Maleny, Kieran can laugh when he recalls the boy on the bus trip from Darwin so long ago. The significance of that journey is also no doubt not lost on his parents, who are thrilled with Kieran’s achievements and are now retired and living on the Sunshine Coast.

Kieran says he loves them being so close, and looks forward to their weekly visits when they tend to his thriving veggie garden, which he makes good use of in the kitchen.

“They’re on the phone to me just about every day, saying they’re at the market, and do I want them to pick something up. It’s great. And on any given night, you’ll hear the pitter patter of my kids galloping round upstairs.

“It’s very much a family thing.”

Reserve, 840 Landsborough–Maleny Road, Maleny 5435 2288. reserverestaurant.com.au

fOR ExTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of kieran and his hinterland restaurant.

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figs find fresh fans words leigh robshaw photos kate johns

The rosy sweet flesh of a fig should be savoured when it’s at its most succulent, soon after it has been plucked ripe from the tree.

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IT’S FOR THIS SUBLIME TREAT that visitors flock to Marie and Geoff Shires’ farm at Woombye every day during fig season, which lasts from January to April.

Shires Road (named after the family) runs along gently sloping farmland lined with rows of fig trees, forming a picturesque entrance to the family’s 100-year-old home. One of the original Queenslanders, it has retained the beauty of its youth throughout the years, presiding over the 21-acre farm in all its former glory.

Purchasing the property in 1976 after leaving Melbourne, Marie and Geoff have nurtured their fig farm with the same attention they’ve lavished on their house. They tend 200 trees mostly on their own.

In a good season – not too little and not too much rain – they can pick up to 100 kilos a day. After the rains of last summer they’re down to 20 kilos a day — and those 20 kilos are in demand.

“I had a lady here on Saturday who has been a customer for years,” says Marie. “She said ‘Marie, have you got figs? I need them for a recipe in a magazine.’ I said I’ve only got about half a dozen left and two minutes later she was here.”

Marie says restaurants around the coast are also eager to snap up her supply. Over the past five years she’s noticed a growing trend in restaurants using figs for both sweet and savoury dishes. Figs not only add visual appeal to a dish, the subtle sweetness of their flesh and the crunch of their tiny seeds complement many a fine meal.

Fig trees date back thousands of years to the Near and Middle East regions, and are thought to be the oldest plant cultivated by humans. Adam and Eve were said to have covered their modesty with fig leaves, and Ancient Greek and Roman history is full of references to the wonders of figs.

While it looks like a fruit and tastes like a fruit, a fig is actually an inverted flower, or the ‘inflorescence’ of the tree.

Of the many species of edible fig (Ficus carica), Marie and Geoff grow two: Brown Turkey and Conadria. They chose to grow figs to supplement their primary crop, avocados, however figs are more suited to a Mediterranean climate, and growing them in the subtropics has proved challenging. >

Ph: 5493 2839 239 Nicklin Way, Sunshine Coast email: bfreshwaranamarkets@bigpond.com

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FIG FACTS: “It’s not really the easiest crop to grow,” says Marie. “You’re prone to bugs, birds and fungal disease and you really need to spray, but we try to avoid pesticide on the fruit because people eat the skin and all, and if you have pesticide on it people will say they don’t want it. You don’t know what you’re getting in supermarkets, if they’ve been sprayed or not.”

Marie doesn’t overdose on figs, but occasionally during picking she’ll spot a perfect fig just begging to be eaten, so she’ll stop momentarily and treat herself. Later, she’ll turn the lesser grade figs she picks into jam or dry them in a dehydrator.

At 65 and 66, Marie and Geoff are spritely examples of the benefits of an active lifestyle, fresh air and sunshine, but they’re beginning to wonder how long they can keep the pace up. They work seven days a week and starting at 5am to beat the birds, who like nothing more than a gourmet breakfast of juicy figs.

“Geoff is the pushing force,” says Marie. “He would keep going, but the thing is I think he sometimes forgets his limitations. I’d like to slow down a bit. At 66 you’re willing but the body doesn’t allow you to do it. I have got a lot of stamina though.”

With a son in Sydney and a daughter in Dalby raising their own families, Marie says it’s unlikely the business will stay in the family when they retire.

“The moment Geoff and I can’t run it anymore I think it would have to go under the hammer. I always say someone silly might come and make me an offer!”

For now, they’ll keep at it, just two people in a long line of fig farmers that stretches back through the history of humanity.

To taste the Shires’ figs swing past their farm gate store at 73 Shires Road, Woombye near The Big Pineapple or sample the sweet delicacies restaurant style at Hungry Feel Eating House, Middy’s Complex, 29 Main Street, Buderim, 5477 1331.

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• The common fig (Ficus carica) is a large, deciduous shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean region (from Afghanistan to Portugal). It grows to a height of 6.9-10 metres.

• It is generally accepted that the fig tree was domesticated in the Near East 6500 years ago. However scientists now believe the first instance of cultivation was closer to 11,000 years ago in an early Neolithic village in the Lower Jordan Valley. This predates wheat, barley and legumes, and is thought to be the first known instance of agriculture. (Science Magazine, 2006).

• The English word ‘fig’ is of ancient origin and is derived from the Latin ‘ficus’ and the yet older Hebrew name ‘feg’. It is thought the English word originated during the Roman invasion of England, when the first fig trees would have been planted on English soil.

• The ancient Athenians were particularly fond of figs and nicknamed ‘sykophants’ (fig-eaters), a name afterwards given to spies who informed the authorities about the unlawful exportation of figs from Attica.

• Figs are one of the highest plant sources of calcium and fibre. Dried figs are rich in manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium and vitamin K. Figs have a laxative effect and contain many antioxidants.

dish panfried fish of the day (mangrove jack pictured) with creamy mashed potato, steamed green beans and rhubarb sauce. wine to match 2009 allan scott pinot gris, marlborough, new zealand chef pete brettell wild rocket @ misty’s, 142 main street, montville. 5478 5560 or wildrocketfood.com

plate up dish salad of house-cured salmon with shaved apple, pickled celery, wine tomato and walnuts. wine to match 2009 pebble bay pinot gris, marlborough, new zealand chef anthony lauriston harry’s on buderim, harry’s lane (off lindsay road), buderim. 5445 6661 or harrysonbuderim.com.au

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photos claire plush

The ocean generously shares her bountiful goods with we landlubbers, offering up all manner of flavours for our tastebuds’ pleasure. here, five of the sunshine Coast’s finest chefs work their magic.

dish seafood tasting plate featuring atlantic salmon fish cakes with saffron aioli; barbecue Queensland scallops with Tunisian tomato relish, saffron and lime dressing; and marinated scorched cuttlefish with chipotle dip, fresh lime and palm sugar dressing. wine to match 2009 leeuwin estate siblings sauvignon blanc semillon, margaret river chef emmett malone sirocco noosa, shop 2, 257 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville.

5455 6688 or sirocconoosa.com.au

dish charcoal grilled octopus served with white beans, wild olives, chilli aioli, oregano, lemon, radish and smoked pork neck. wine to match centennial vineyard winery block, chardonnay 08, bowral Nsw chef david rayner thomas corner eatery, 1/201 gympie terrace, noosaville, 5470 2224 or thomascorner.com.au

dish fire and spiced king prawn skewers with tomato and capsicum salsa, and citrus labreh. wine to match 2009 saint clair pinot gris, marlborough, new zealand chef darryn fitzpatrick sandbar cafĂŠ and kiosk, 26 the esplanade, caloundra. 5491 0800 or sandbarcafekiosk.com.au

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chef’s selection photos claire plush recipe jan mora

Fabulous meals result when a chef’s ingredients are fresh and colourful and the preparation is simple. The chef at Nude delicafe Jan Mora shares a delectable recipe, created using this culinary philosophy.

Nude de licaf e’s corn panca ke s with capsicu m and tomato salsa, gri lled b acon and sour c ream

INGREDIENTS (serves 6) 5 large cobs of corn (cooked) 1 cup plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 eggs, lightly beaten ¾ cup milk 1 cup zucchini, grated 1 onion, diced 2 shallots, finely sliced 12 rashers of bacon Sour cream Baby rocket

Capsicum & Zucchini Salsa 1 red capsicum, finely diced 5 Roma tomatoes, deseeded and finely diced ½ small red onion, finely chopped ½ bunch chopped fresh coriander leaves 2 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce Juice of 1 lime Salt and pepper to taste.

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METHOD

PAN TO PLATE

Bring to boil a large pot of water with a pinch of salt, add corn cobs and simmer for 10 mins.

Leave to cool.

With a sharp knife, cut the kernels from the cob.

In a large bowl place corn kernels, grated zucchini, diced onion and sliced shallots.

Sift flour and baking powder and add to zucchini mixture.

Add lightly beaten eggs and milk, salt and pepper to taste.

Fold mixture until well combined.

Refrigerate mixture for half an hour.

Meanwhile, make the salsa, by placing all ingredients in a bowl and toss together. Easy!

Preheat heavy based frypan or barbecue grill plate to a medium heat (you don’t want it too high as you need the pancakes to cook evenly without burning).

Place ¼ cup of mixture for each pancake in a lightly oiled pan (there is no need to deep fry these in oil).

To keep warm, place in a warm oven.

Now turn your heat up and fry the bacon, place in oven to keep warm.

Place a small handful of fresh baby rocket on a plate. Place a pancake on top, then bacon, and repeat using two pancakes for each serve.

Top with a piece of bacon, salsa and finally add a dollop of sour cream.

PHILOSOPHY Nude delicafe prides itself on always offering the very best that food has to offer that is lovingly “housemade” with fresh ingredients delivered daily to our door from our local suppliers.

Nude delicafe asks that you buy your produce at your nearest farmers’ markets and a local butcher (we use Cotton Tree Meats). Not only will you be buying fresh produce, but you will also be supporting local small business and at the same time enjoying what the coast has to offer.

Available at Nude delicafe, Mooloolaba Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 4371 or Shop 3 Rovera Plaza, King Street, Cotton Tree, 5443 8819.

HO T TIPS: • Keep it fresh, simple and colourful. Using fresh corn from the cob instead of canned corn (fresh), not having fancy sauces (simple), and using fresh produce (colourful).

• Manage your time by measuring the ingredients first, have all your portions prepared and ready to work with. By doing this you won’t be half way through a recipe and realise you have forgotten something!

Available at Nude delicafe, Mooloolaba Esplanade, Mooloolaba or Shop 3 Rovera Plaza, King Street, Cotton Tree.

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relaxed recipes < GOAT’ S CHEESE AND FIG SALAD 4 figs 4 cups mixed salad greens 110g creamy goat’s cheese 8 walnuts 4 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp white wine vinegar Salt and pepper Wash figs. Cut fig in four without cutting through the stem and allow the fruit to fan open.

Garnish four salad plates with the salad greens and the figs.

Place a spoonful of the cheese in the middle of the fig and sprinkle with walnuts.

Prepare vinaigrette by whisking olive oil, vinegar and salt and pepper.

Pour over the top and serve.

flavoursome figs words sally trude photos anastasia kariofyllidis

Fresh, ripe figs are full of flavour and as tender as the day is long, and thus require very little fuss. Try these quick and easy “recipes” – some sweet and some savoury – to make the most of fresh figs.

BAKED FIGS > Lie six halved figs on a baking sheet covered in foil.

Drizzle with honey.

Bake in a moderate oven until soft and serve with ice cream, mascarpone or crème fraiche.

A quick and easy desert.

ROAS TED FIGS AND HAM (image not shown) 8 fresh figs 3 tbsp honey 2 tbsp parmesan cheese 2 tbsp butter 4 slices cured ham Wash the figs and cut them in two.

Place peel side down in baking dish.

Pour a little honey on top of each half, then sprinkle with the parmesan. Add a small amount of butter on each.

Bake in a 200°C oven for about 10 minutes.

Serve warm with the ham.

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< FIG S IN A BLANKET 6 fresh figs 110g prosciutto (thinly sliced) 110g cream cheese 85g goat cheese 85g Gorgonzola cheese 4 shallots (thinly sliced) Salt and pepper to taste Cream together the cream cheese, goat cheese and gorgonzola in a mixer.

Stir in by hand the shallots and salt and pepper and set aside.

Slice the figs into thirds lengthwise.

Lay the slices of prosciutto on a cutting board and cut lengthwise into thirds.

Using a knife spread each cut of the fig with a good dollop of gorgonzola spread.

Wrap each fig with the prosciutto, which will adhere to the spread.

Repeat with all the figs.

Cook figs on a baking sheet lined with foil, point side facing up.

Preheat oven to 180째C. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the figs are warm and the cheese is soft.

Allow to rest for 2 minutes before serving warm.

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praise for our favourite drop words darren patterson

In the wine drinking world, Queensland in particular, sauvignon blanc is king.

AT EVERY DINNER PARTY, barbecue or social gathering people are drinking sauvignon blanc by the bucketful. The strange thing is most of it seems to come from New zealand, and the Marlborough region specifically. why would very proud Australians drink wine from across the ditch, from the people who regularly beat us at rugby? Because it tastes good!

The Adelaide hills are renowned for great wines including pinot noir and pinot gris, but sauvignon blanc is the stand out. The wines are fresh and fragrant, although still lovely and crisp. It is also great with food including salt and pepper calamari and other seafood with a bit of spice. some of Australia’s biggest wine names are from the hills, with names like shaw & smith, Tim knappstein and even henshcke growing sB here.

sauvignon blanc is originally from Bordeaux in france, one of only four white varieties allowed, and is usually blended with semillon to make dry table wines in the areas of Graves and Pessac-Leognan, though in sauternes it is used to make sweet wine. It also grows extremely well in the Loire Valley where they make a few different styles. sancerre is probably the better known region, though I personally love the Pouilly fume with its fantastic smoky character.

Victoria and Tasmania also grow sauvignon blanc, and it is bloody good.

Australia makes fantastic sauvignon blanc. while most of the Marlborough wines have a real tropical fruit salad character of passionfruit, we are a little more restrained and have a more herbaceous character on the nose. we have regions all over the country trying to grow sauvignon blanc, and not all are successful. The best regions are Margaret River and Pemberton in western Australia, with wines like Leeuwin Estate, Mosswood and Pierro. some of the great wines of wA are blended with semillon, copying the Bordeaux region in france. Don’t let the semillon put you off, these wines are fantastic and rival the straight sauv for complexity.

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we don’t hear about these wines in the press much, probably because the pinot and chardonnays they make are even more outstanding. I guess the Tassie wines have less acid than other regions and this makes it a different, possibly a more approachable style. It is really fleshy with an almost royal gala apple feel in your mouth.

My favourite Tassie sauvy by far is stefano Lubiana – just so rich and luscious. In Victoria, the Yarra Valley would be my pick, although it is made in very limited amounts. De Bortoli make a great example of a lean style, very crisp and fresh, and Medhurst has an amazing food-suitable style of wine.

In the early 1990s New zealand started its amazing run with sauvignon blanc at the top of the south Island in the Marlborough region. I guess the first name to really stamp its mark on the region was probably Cloudy Bay. since those early years the region has exploded, with

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many critics complaining of lack of quality and over production. I believe some of the bigger producers do try making massive profits from making the vines produce too much fruit. You get less flavour and complexity making the wine overly watery and acidic.

I learnt in a visit to the Marlborough region last year that there were massive vineyards planted out that had already gone into receivership.

The great vineyards still produce amazing wines. start looking for family-owned brands and read the back label: it will usually give all the important info.

The good wines should have a palate weight, which means a fuller-bodied wine that is not overly thin. wairau River, seresin Estate and Craggy Range are all still family owned. There are many other wines to look at so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shy away from looking a bit harder for good tasting and value.

Cheers, Ch darren

top ten marlborough nz

top ten aussie

seresin.................................. $26 MOMO ................................ $18 wairau River ......................... $19 Craggy Range ....................... $32 The Ned............................... $14 Manawa ................................ $13 Isabel .................................... $28 konrad.................................. $12

stefano Lubiana........................$32 Medhurst .................................$19 shaw & smith ..........................$28 Riposte by Tim knappstein .......$17 Leeuwin ..................................$26 smithbrook ..............................$14 henshcke ................................$19 Capel Vale ...............................$14

Mudhouse ............................ $15

De Bortoli ...............................$12

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fashion

words and styling briseis onfray

nomadic journey The coast holds lucky perfection.

Take time to get familiar with the many moods, tones, textures, colours and patterns. work with this landscape as inspiration and savour its magic daily.

Our world is Mother Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterpiece. In reflection of her fury of late â&#x20AC;Ś listen to her, learn from her and explore her world with a conscious effort, style and grace.

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Elisa Cavaletti

Available at: elisa Cavaletti, zambezee, ‘Davos’ Cnr Gympie Terrace and Thomas street, Noosaville, 5474 3125 or ‘syrenuse’ 45 The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 3640. woodford and Co, Alterior Motif, shop 9, Rovera Plaza, Cotton Tree, 5443 3406 or shop 7, Noosa Cinema Centre, sunshine Beach Road, Noosa or alteriormotif.com.au

fashion and accessory specialists stylists by appointment Shop 4, The Dunes 27 Cotton Tree Parade woodford & Co.

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desert storm Autumn winds can be harsh on skin, so aim to cover-up with natural fabrics that provide ample sun (and wind) protection.

The great thing about a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cover-upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is being able to layer it up or down with a long shirt, vest, scarf, wrap, jacket and boots.

Then hold it all together with a statement belt. Of course, flat boots are essential for going anywhere long-distance.

Woodford & Co. Banana Blue

Nicola Waite Essentials

Available at: Banana Blue, OV Boutique, Shop 4, The Dunes, 27 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4505 or Gingers Boutique, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616.

Nicola Waite Essentials, Minx & Max, Shop 3/18 Lanyana Way, Noosa Junction, 5447 3366.

Woodford and Co, Alterior Motif, contact information on page 59.

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Available at: George, Gina and Lucy, OV Boutique, contact information on page 60.

Sportscraft, Myer, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore, 5443 4133 or sunshineplaza.com Wonders of Spain, Get Set footwear, 230 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5447 1755 or 82A Bulcock Street, Caloundra, 5492 7185 or getsetfootwear.com.au

Wonders of Spain

George, Gina and Lucy Sportscraft

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fashion

jungle juice

Joseph Ribkoff

It’s like a jungle out there with animal print featuring all over everything this year. And why not? It oozes confidence, has great sex appeal and still remains at the top of euro-chic fashion charts. And we’re not just talking about a splash with a scarf either … it’s complete coverage with cheetah, leopard, snake or zebra print.

Morgan Marks

May

Oroton Anne Everingham

Country Road

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katherine

Mela Purdie

Available at: Anne everingham, by appointment only phone 5442 8051 or everingham.com.au Country road, sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 61.

Joseph ribkoff, zambezee, contact information on page 59. katherine, Minx and Max, contact information on page 60 or oV boutique, contact information on page 60 or gingers boutique, contact information on page 60.

May, Alterior Motif, contact information on page 59.

Mela Purdie, oV boutique, contact information on page 60 zambezee, contact information on page 59.

Morgan Marks, Carmels designs & Homewares, shop 20, Peninsular, Mooloolaba, 5444 3767 or 21B James street, Burleigh heads, 5535 9255 or carmelsdesigns.com.au oroton, noosa optical, 1 Lanyana way, Noosa heads, 5447 3711 or noosaoptical.com.au

It takes nature over a billion years to create the brightest, most sought after gemstone known to man.

So it is only fitting that you take a little time to select the perfect stone to grace your finger.

DIAMONDS WITH A CONSCIENCE All CanadianFire diamonds are mined in Canada to the highest environmental standards possible. Nor are they the product of conflict.

This is your guarantee that, socially, morally & environmentally, your diamond will hold its true value.

GLOSS GOLD & DIAMONDS

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tumbleweed A little unpredictable, very flighty but always ready to go with the flow.

If animal print doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take your fancy, then opt for animal textures instead. Feathers, faux-fur or fluffy cottons and wools will soften edges and add comfort for any cooler evenings ahead.

Elisa Cavaletti

Country Road

Available at: Country Road, Sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 61.

Elisa Cavaletti Zambezee, contact information on page 59.

Sarah Pacini, Kabucci, 29 First Avenue, Mooloolaba, 5477 7799 or kabucci.com Senso, OV Boutique, contact information on page 60.

Sarah Pacini

Morgan Marks

Senso

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JOSEPH RIBKOFF EXCLUSIVE TO ZAMBEZEE FOR THE SUNSHINE COAST WORLD FASHION WORLD CLASS FASHION Available at: Metalicus Soul Diva, 45 Burnett St, Buderim, 5456 4111 or souldiva.com.au or OV Boutique, contact information on page 60 or Piece of Me, 50 Maple Street, Maleny, 5499 9924 or pieceofme.com.au Morgan Marks, Carmels Designs & Homewares, contact information on page 63.

ON SINCE 1997 1997 ON THE THE BEACH SINCE NOOSAVILLE “DA’VOS” SHOPS 5 AND 6, 1-7 THOMAS STREET - 5474 3125 MOOLOOLABA “SYRENUSE” 45 THE ESPLANADE - 5444 3640

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fashion

coastal cruise If it’s a free weekend with a sunny forecast, then pack the car and take a scenic road trip to any one of the coast’s magical settings.

It can still get hot, so dress while having ‘swim and then soda’ in mind. Mix jungle prints with vibrant pink. Beachwear is flamboyant. Travel in practical but fun garments. Drive safe.

George, Gina and Lucy

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Saucy Rose

Saucy Rose

Lilya

Saucy Rose

Available at: George, Gina and Lucy, Bambini Emporium, 29 First Avenue, Mooloolaba, 5477 7810 bambiniemporium.com.au Lilya, Alterior Motif, contact information on page 59.

Saucy Rose, Shop 17, Peninsular Apartments, 13 The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 5669 or saucyrose.com

Carmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Designs & Homewares Shop 20 Peninsular,The Esplanade, Mooloolaba Qld 4557

Phone/Fax: 07 5444 6946

Carmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Designs & Homewares 21B James Street, Burleigh Heads Qld 4220

www.carmelsdesigns.com.au

Phone/Fax: 07 5535 9255

loving the high road Civilisation at last! The social network makes for a busy agenda and an event can be arranged in an instant. So now, more than ever, it’s essential to have an outfit that is ready – and fits – at a moment’s notice. A dress is the easiest, but choose a sophisticated cut with a feminine touch. Invest in quality fabric with a timeless style: something that can last beyond a silly fad and survive more than one season.

Joseph Ribkoff Review

Maiocchi

Sarah Pacini

Available at: Didier Parakian, Must Have Gifts, Shop 10, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum, 5446 3055 or Gingers Boutique, contact information on page 60.

Maiocchi, Soul Diva, contact information on page 65.

Review, Myer, Sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 61.

Sarah Pacini, Kabucci, contact information on page 64.

Joseph Ribkoff, Zambezee, contact information on page 59.

Didier Parakian

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imperial tea Enough scenic tours for one day. It’s time to wind down and relax with friends. Make it simple … no ironing.

A comfortable slip, dress or long top with leggings won’t take much effort. But an interesting colour or an exotic print will always add substance.

Refreshing high tea anyone?

Available at: Nic by Nicola Waite, Minx and Max, contact information on page 60.

Maiocchi, Soul Diva, contact information on page 65.

Pomegranate, Watermelon Red, Shop 12, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach, 54739550 or watermelonred.com.au or Soul Diva, contact information on page 65.

Rene Derhy, Gingers Boutique, contact information on page 60 or Must Have Gifts, contact information on page 69.

Wyse, Soul Diva, contact information on page 65, or Piece of Me, contact information on page 65.

Wyse Maiocchi

Rene Derhy

Pomegranate Nic by Nicola Waite

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Flinders Lane

pro circuit Off the beaten track and back into top metro gear, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some debonair fashion to boot out there men, so get with it.

Ditch the pin-stripes on weekends and go for a shirt with a creative print. Deep mineral colours like navy, charcoal, teal and brown are autumn favourites, so steer clear of brights.

Suit-up for a special occasion and always wear stylish shoes and accessories to help define those handsome good looks.

Maui Jim

Vivo Barefoot

Available at: Flnders Lane, Klingers, 29 First Avenue, Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au Maui Jim, Noosa Optical, contact information on page 63.

Vivo Barefoot, Get Set footwear, contact information on page 61.

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Ted Baker

Jensen

Available at: BachLR, Jensen and Ted Baker, Klingers, contact information on page 72.

Maui Jim, Noosa Optical, contact information on page 63.

Maui Jim

BachLR

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jewellery box

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YOU words and styling briseis onfray

It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take much to say it, but a token surprise of appreciation can be just what it takes to make a special connection that much stronger.

Love or friendships should never be taken for granted. Share the love with a beautiful keepsake, that can be treasured for a lifetime.

Gordon Herford

Anne Everingham

Palas

Najo

Opals Downunder

Gloss Gold & Diamonds

Available at: Anne Everingham, Broome pearls with silver, by appointment only phone 5442 8051 or everingham.com.au Gloss Gold & Diamonds, 1/2 Carat diamond halo engagement ring, Level 1, Sunshine Plaza, Maroochydore, 5443 8188 or glossdiamonds.com.au Gordon Herford Master Jeweller, white pearls in 18ct white gold, black diamond and white diamond link design earrings, Shop 7, Noosa Wharf, Quamby Place, Noosa Sound, 5455 4899 or gordonherford.com 74 salt

Silver Shop, Najo silver acapulco heart necklace and Palas antique inspired sterling silver and brass initial pendants, Shop 393, Level 1, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore, 5452 7577 or Shop 104, Sirocco Resort, The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 7260 or silvershop.com.au Opals Down Under,14k yellow gold heart pendant featuring 0.75ct crystal opals, 11 Ballantyne Court, Palmview, 5494 5400 or opalsdownunder.com.au

I STILL

YOUâ&#x20AC;Ś Samantha Wills

Trollbeads

Legacy New York

Riley Burnett

Available at: Legacy New York charm bracelet, Maleny Jewellers, Shop 4 Riverside Centre, Maleny, 5494-3477 or malenyjewellers.com or Silver Shop, contact information on page 74.

Original Trollbeads bracelet, NYK2, Rovera Plaza, King Street, Cotton Tree, 5443 1955 or ny2k.com.au Riley Burnett, OV Boutique, contact information on page 60 or Watermelon Red, contact information on page 70.

Samantha Wills, Alterior Motif, contact information on page 59 or Minx & Max, contact information on page 60.

up and coming

fresh identities sewn up words and portrait photos claire plush

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hunched over sewing machines would not seem like the ideal date for most.

But for designers Ainsley hutchence and sebastien fougere that is how their story began a little over two and a half years ago.

noosa heads boutique now open! [next to the cinema]

FAST FORWARD TO 2011 and the loved-up couple are sitting comfortably side-by-side in the living area of Sebastien’s Mooloolaba home surrounded by racks of clothes, some of which are from their label and others that they are showing for others through their new creative agency.

It’s fair to say that life has changed a lot for the pair since their meeting back in 2008.

Ainsley, who grew up in Minyama, met Canadian-born Sebastien when he began working at a café in Cotton Tree that she frequented.

“I used to go there a lot and then all of a sudden Sebastien started working there and I started to plan my visits around that, and looked in to see if he was around,” she laughs.

While neither was working in the fashion industry at the time, they both held a strong desire to start a label.

“It was one of the very first conversations we ever had,” Ainsley says.

They bonded over long nights spent dreaming, designing and sewing up creations. Then in 2009, only a few months after they met, their label and lovechild tilldeathdouspart was born.

In between raising three young kids from their previous relationships and working part-time jobs, Sebastien and Ainsley found the time to create pieces for the label that went on consignment at a fashion boutique in Cotton Tree.

It was a big feat considering their knowledge base only consisted of a six-month fashion course Ainsley completed when she left high school and the skills Sebastien had picked up from “a few sewing classes with grannies”.

Mens + Womens

“We didn’t know what we were doing,” Ainsley admits. “We were just making it up as we went.”

In September last year, the first tilldeathdouspart range was released and distributed to selected stores across Australia.

The range balanced edginess with elegance, much like the tattooed couple themselves.

Primarily using cottons, silks and rayons, Sebastien holds the menswear reins in each collection, while Ainsley looks after the women’s.

“We naturally gravitate towards the things that we are better at. And it’s amazing because where I fall down Sebastien is so strong,” she says.

“That’s why we work so well and can spend so much time together.

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“We want to use clothes to showcase people’s own identities.”

Melissa Jean Photography

The name of the label stems from one of these commonalities, with both having been married previously.

but not necessarily as a fashion agency. Just a studio of creativity,” Ainsley says.

But, rather than shy away from the fact, the couple speak openly and embrace the past as a part of who they are.

With so much on their plate, including Sebastien’s work with adults with disabilities, it’s no wonder they feel a little all over the place.

“We’re so grateful for all that stuff happening. It’s just part of our story, the whole divorced thing,” she says.

“We are just trying to catch up with ourselves and figure out how to do it all,” Sebastien says.

While it may seem a little ironic that two divorcees would name their latest venture after a key phrase spoken in wedding vows, it’s that kind of left-of-centre approach that separates the pair and their label from other budding designers.

But the couple has no intention of slowing down.

“We try not to take the industry too seriously,” Ainsley says glancing at Sebastien.

As for Studio Smock? “We know what it’s like to have a really big dream. We want to be able to help anyone who is willing to give what they really want to do a shot,” Ainsley says.

“We want to get people thinking about fashion differently,” Sebastien adds.

“We want to use clothes to showcase people’s own identities,” Ainsley continues.

“And just really enhance what they already have,” Sebastien finishes.

Along with designing their Autumn/Winter 11 range due for release soon, Ainsley and Sebastien have been busy with the recent launch of their creative agency, Studio Smock.

Representing five other labels including One Teaspoon, the agency was an idea that had been lurking in the background for a while.

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“Ultimately we want tilldeathdouspart to be an international label.

We’re not just doing it as a hobby,” Ainsley says. “We’re doing it so we do this for the rest of our lives.”

It seems 2011 is going to be a big year for the young couple and they couldn’t be more ready.

“I have never been so happy or inspired in all my life,” Sebastien says. “I finally feel we’re living our life and doing what we’re supposed to be doing.” tilldeathdouspart is stocked at Alterior Motif, Shop 9, Rovera Plaza, Cotton Tree, 5443 3406 or Shop 7, 29 Sunshine Beach Road, Noosa, 5412 2803 or tilldeath.com.au FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Ainsley and Sebastien’s tilldeathdouspart label.

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make believe

words and styling briseis onfray

Sparkle with imagination this season. Explore colours and styles to create a whole new look. It’s creative and fun … and … you’ll feel like a celebrity in minutes! (but shhhh… the best-kept secret to instant celeb glamour is hair extensions.)

Orofluido

Saya

Available at: Baieme, Allure Medi Spa & Beauty Lounge Sunshine Plaza, 54431011or allurebeauty.com.au Butter London, Aqua Day Spa, Sheraton Noosa Resort, Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 5449 4777 or aquadayspa.com.au Jane Iredale, Ikatan Spa, 46 Grays Road, Doonan, 5471 1199 or ikatanspa.com or, The Spa, Hyatt Regency Coolum, Warran Road, Coolum, 5446 1234 or coolum.regency.hyatt.com or, Grace Kovac, 5/5 Gibson Road, Noosaville, 5447 1172 or gracekovac.com Orofluido, Eco Organic Hair and Beauty, Shop 3/1 King Street, Cotton Tree, 5451 1300 or eco-organic.com 80 salt

Park Sebel hair extensions

celebrity hair

Orofluido provides silkiness and shine to all types of hair. It is light, soft and absorbs rapidly into ends, leaving no residue. 100ml $49.95rrp.

With 100% pure natural Vitamin E, Ylang Ylang essential oil, Saya Moroccan Argan Oil is great for the hair and skin! Free of artificial ingredients. 30ml $24.95rrp.

Fancy a change in look? Park Sebel hair extensions, are a classy and fun way to achieve a new hairstyle. There are many colours, styles and lengths to choose from.

Prices vary and available on application.

Vani-T

The Body Shop

Butter London

fantasy features

The Body Shop Metallic Eye Definer is a long-lasting, blendable liner that is soft yet firm enough to be smudge-resistant. Apply to emphasise and define. $18.95rrp. Add vibrant colour with Butter London ‘3 Free’ Nail Lacquer, ‘3 free’ from formaldehyde, toluene and D.B.P. comes in many fantasy colours. $22rrp. Jane Iredale Lip Fixations is dual ended with a lip stain and a tasty gloss.

These sticks are long wearing with high moisturising benefits. $56rrp.

Baieme

Jane Iredale

sprinkle minerals Blush pink,

rose, peach or gold with Baieme mineral blushes. Pure and natural to provide superior coverage that is good for your skin. They are also hypoallergenic and provide SPF20 protection. $45rrp. Sprinkle gold everywhere! Jane Iredale 24K Gold Dust can be applied to cheeks, eyes, lips and hair! Sprinkle in with moisturisers or a styling gel to glitter with gold all over town. $30rrp. Create mystic with Vani-T Mineral Colour Crystals. Cover lids to almost opaque for a vibrant ‘wow’ or blend down to create a sultry and smoky-eye look. $29.95rrp

Available at: Park Sebel hair extensions, Zambezee, ‘Davos’ cnr Gympie Terrace and Thomas Street, Noosaville, 5474 3125, or, ‘Syrenuse’ 45 The Esplanade, Mooloolaba, 5444 3640.

Saya, Shop 6/41 Gateway Drive, Noosaville.

5473 0257 or sayaskin.com The Body Shop, Ground Level, Sunshine Plaza, Maroochydore, 5479 3309.

Vani-T, The Spa, Noosa Springs, Links Drive, Noosa Heads, 5440 3355 or noosasprings.com.au

pamper & preen

liquid heaven words jane fynes-clinton

Sitting still is not my thing, not without a reason for the stillness anyway.

I am always moving, often juggling several jobs and more thoughts and sundry plans all at once. My cup is full and often overflowing.

even though I was on my own and was undistracted by a friend’s chatter. I will admit to having trouble extracting myself and pouring myself into the heavenly cotton robe and slippers.

I felt like The Spa at Noosa Springs knew this, as if by telepathy.

I could not have fully enjoyed a sedentary, soaking experience on the day of my visit (lovely as it may have been), for I had too much on the go.

I nibbled on a perfectly proportioned fruit and cheese platter and sipped on peach tea while leafing through a health magazine in the relaxation lounge until I was collected with seamless timing.

And there was Noosa Springs’ Thermal Suite: my perfect match.

The facilities all involve water – that healing, enriching mainstay of life. Water was in the steam room, the infra-red sauna, the icy-cold blitz shower and, wonderfully, in the HydroMassage pool. And they each invigorated me and satisfied the need to keep moving all at once.

The pool was liquid heaven, a watery wonderland that looked to be straight out of ancient Greece or Rome but with delightful modern twists.

Toni-with-the-magic-hands then treated my face to a Tropical Enzyme Boost facial. It was as if the HydroMassage pool and assorted water treatments had soothed my harried mind in preparation. I surrendered to the quiet music and dissolved in the softly-scented treatment room.

For almost an hour, I shut my mouth. It was a personal record, at least where another person was present and I was not asleep.

The pool is zoned, and different parts feature jets of water that massage different body parts, from soles of feet to base of head.

There are bubbles and currents, cool and warm, strong and soothing.

Oh, the luxury, the decadence, the relaxation! My face was treated to blueberry soy cleanser and lime refresh tonique, pear and poppyseed microderm polisher, coconut cream masque, grape antioxidant serum and black perlette grape moisturiser. My face had never been treated to such a delicious smorgasbord.

I felt like I was on an exercise circuit, but once I moved to the new zone, the jets and bubbles did the work. It was bliss, if your idea of bliss (like mine) is invigorating and revitalising.

The Eminence Organic products were natural, pure and from Hungary. By the end, my face certainly felt as if it had been on a holiday there – it had never been so full, soothed and happy.

I could have stayed there far longer than the 55 minutes allocated,

When it was over, for once my mind and body were calm and still.

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The Spa at Noosa Springs is on Links Drive, Noosa Heads. noosasprings.com.au or 5440 3355 w hat is spec i al?

Water, water everywhere. Like a true European spa, The Spa at Noosa Springs is a watery oasis, combining luxury with natural beauty in its products and facilities. Its tranquillity is enhanced without doubt by the use of water features and therapies.

The location is serene. The sense is that you could be in Europe, Asia, anywhere but your normal life. There is beauty and space in the picturesque surrounds.

The timing at Noosa Springs is impeccable. The warm, expert staff give a guest just the right amount of time in and around their treatments without making them feel rushed. what t r eatm e nt was e nj oy e d ?

A Half-Day Spa Escape ($145 per person) featured 55 minutes of pool, shower, steam, spray and sauna in the Thermal Suite, followed by a little fruit and cheese platter with a drink in the well-named relaxation lounge, then a 55 minute Full Body Massage, Sugar Scrub or Tropical Enzyme Boost Facial. The facial lived up to the promise of melting away stress and the soothing music blew time away.

The combined result of spending soothing water-time and being pampered with a beauty treatment featuring all-natural products left me feeling far more connected with the earth, more mentally rested and eminently pampered. fi n al tips?

Make time to be on time for your appointment. And remember to relish every blissful moment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the world can turn without you for half a day.

artist

change by design words leigh robshaw

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Floating Land is an interactive, interdisciplinary arts festival with an extraordinary program designed to encourage people to think more deeply about the environmental challenges society faces today.

Floating Land was conceived in 2001 as an outdoor sculptural event held at the UNESCO-listed biosphere of Boreen Point, on the shores of picturesque Lake Cootharaba.

This remains the primary venue for Floating Land, however as the original event has expanded into a regional community arts festival, there are now satellite venues at Coolum boardwalk, the Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy and Bli Bli. Guest curator Leah Barclay says planning the program and selecting artists was an exacting task, and that she wanted to ensure a strong First Nations component. She chose artists she felt would offer a contemplative and meditative environment in which to process ideas that would challenge and inspire.

“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for the community to really reflect on the state of the world at the moment and the role of water, and how artists can contribute to shaping new ideas and new paradigms to really start responding to these issues, and start to make significant changes in trying to understand climate change,” says Leah.

Sunshine Coast Council’s Cultural Heritage and Collections Manager John Waldron says Floating Land is no ordinary art exhibition – it’s about getting people involved.

The Firings, Floating Land 2009, photo courtesy of Raoul Slater.

“We hope it will encourage people to act on behalf of the environment, to consider their actions more carefully and scrutinise their activity to make sure it’s appropriate to where they live,” says John. >

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Boreen Point The action at Boreen Point will kick off with the renowned Gubbi Gubbi dancers performing an opening ceremony and ‘Welcome to the Country’ in collaboration with Yoonsang Choi, a leading Korean percussionist who invented the electronic hour glass drum called the ‘super janggu’.

In the following days, there will be workshops and performances by the Gubbi Gubbi dancers; deep ecology workshops by Ilka Nelson from creative environmentalist studio The Last Tree; movement workshops with Jeremy Neideck, an Australian-born performance artist, dancer and composer; sound ecology walks with Ros Bandt, an internationally-acclaimed artist, composer, researcher and scholar and Water Creatures workshops with multidisciplinary artist Justin Shoulder.

There will also be storytelling, art and ecology trails, free public forums with opportunities to meet the artists, artists working on-site, workshops, a diverse music program, exhibitions, schools activities and stunning dusk installation walks.

The grand finale of the Boreen Point program will include the Blue Gold performance and The Firings [see fact box].

Coolum Boardwalk This component of Floating Land will be run by the Catchment Collective, a Green Art group consisting of leading local artists with extensive experience in environmental projects. The Coolum boardwalk and foreshore will be the site for several substantial sculptural installation art works that reflect real human concerns focused on water and culture. Senior students from Coolum State High School’s visual art department have been invited to participate.

Wendy McGrath’s work “Red Shoes – The Next Wave” offers a taste of the type of artwork being presented at Coolum. Her piece will feature one thousand red shoes made from recycled paper emerging from the shore in a wave over the embankment and making a striking statement about asylum seekers.

Floating Land 2009, photo courtesy of Adam West.

Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy and Bli Bli Cooroy and Bli Bli are the locations for a component that investigates the Australia South Sea Islander culture through exhibitions, workshops, dance and community celebrations.

Jan Dunlop’s “Survival on the Edge of Disaster” will feature a sculptural work of abstract human forms retreating in fear of rising sea levels.

“There is a strong culture of South Sea Islanders on the Sunshine Coast, and they have a fascinating heritage linked back to the sugar industry here,” says John Waldron.

“It’s a very hidden heritage. There are stories attached to that about how they were brought here to work the sugar plantations.

They’re a strong and active group so we want to explore and promote their heritage and them as a unique cultural group.”

Similarly thought-provoking installations and sculptures by the other artists will round out the Coolum program.

The project will employ visual/multimedia artist Krishna Nahow-Ryall, an Australian South Sea Islander, to research, engage and

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digitally record and document interviews and other forms of expression such as song and weaving.

Floating Land is part of the Sunshine Coast Council’s emerging Green Art Strategy, which recognises our region’s unique environment and the valuable role the arts can play in raising environmental awareness and inspiring action.

“It is about bringing together internationally renowned artists to the Sunshine Coast and having them working with our local artists and community,” says John.

“The Sunshine Coast is very well placed for a strategy that explores its unique cultural and wonderful environmental heritage and works to ensure we preserve that.”

Sue Coburn, Floating Land 2009, photo courtesy of Raoul Slater.

Festival highlights : The Boreen Point component of the festival takes ephemeral art to a new level in 2011, with artworks exploring projection, light and sound in the natural environment.

Blue G o ld 6pm Ju ne 4 at Boreen P oint â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the key works of the festival, a multimedia project that will look at water as the gold of our time and all the political connotations that go with that,â&#x20AC;? says Leah Barclay.

A performance installation, it will feature instrumentalists interpreting stunning electroacoustic work, sculptures and digital colour field imagery.

Performers will navigate through rich electroacoustic sound fields sourced from oceans, deserts, bushland and mountain ranges. Glass and earth sculptures floating in the water and sitting on the sand will act as timers to help reflect the balance between water and the earth.

Blue Gold will take place in collaboration with two performance groups, Hidden Land and Water Rhythm, which will add captivating physical theatre, experimental costume design, video art and percussion.

T he Fi r i n gs 5pm June 5 at Boreen P oint Rowley Drysdale and Quixotica ceramic collaboration create kilns over the water and fire them in this closing event that attracts in excess of 500 spectators most years. The three-hour show is a brilliant collaboration between musicians, artists and performers, with didgeridoo by Lyndon Davis of Gubbi Gubbi Dance, together with Korean percussionists and other performance artists.

Gh ost N ets Ghost nets are a huge problem in the Gulf of Carpentaria, where they drift on ocean currents and kill marine life. The Carpentaria Ghost Nets Program is an alliance of Indigenous rangers and other nongovernmental organisations working to eradicate ghost nets. The Ghost Nets group will be conducting workshops from Saturday May 28 to Tuesday May 31 and a community collaborative installation at Boreen Point to spread the word about this critical environmental issue. From Wednesday June 1 to Sunday June 5 the Ghost Net group will be working on a community installation.

For a comprehensive program visit floatingland.org.au

off the wall

man behind the mask words linda read photos claire plush

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps Sculptor Michael Taylor’s story is fascinating, made no less so by the extraordinary beauty of the masks themselves.

Made of leather and paint, each unique work of art has a naturalsize face surrounded by sculptural elements which make the pieces measure up to one square metre. He has also produced some of his masks in bronze.

Michael has described the mask as an art form as being a “representation of ourselves and how different we are from each other”.

While traditionally Michael’s masks have been made of leather, he is constantly experimenting with new techniques, which will be showcased in his latest exhibition at Art on Cairncross, Maleny, on the Sunshine Coast.

“As with every show, I have some new thing that I do,” says Michael.

As both a mask maker and a figurative sculptor, he is aiming to bring these two forms closer together.

“I fill up about one sketch book a month. I’ll go sit in the studio and I’ve got to get some ideas out. The drawings just go on and on. I’ve got piles and piles of these books.

“Then the sketches will develop. So maybe the sketches I’ll be using in the show are sketches that I started a year or two ago. The sketches are really the bedrock of all the things that I do.

“Drawing takes 70 per cent of the time, and the work is produced in the last little bit. They’re really ideas that are well developed on paper.”

Michael’s career as a mask maker and sculptor spans four decades and has included countless exhibitions in several continents. It has also taken him around the world in a sailboat he built himself, and brought him to settle in Queensland’s Mt Tamborine where he has lived for the last 20 years with his wife Liz and their two sons, and where he creates his unique works in his home studio.

“With this show what I’m doing is to incorporate my drawing into the sculptures, so elements of these masks will be made out of wire.

Still using paints and leather, but also expressing it with wire. So I’m making a 3D version of my drawing. That’s a new thing – working with line rather than form.”

Born and raised in California, Michael was always artistic, and like many artists, when he finished school, he decided to pursue a different career, and completed a degree in Marine Biology.

But he continued to pursue art, taking university-level art courses simultaneously.

While this technique may be new for Michael, his drawings are not – his masks always begin as sketches.

“With any other career, you know what you have to do. With the art game, it’s a wonderful career, but there’s no way to teach somebody

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what steps have to happen for you to be successful. There’s a bit of luck involved. A bit of timing, the right place.”

These elements certainly aligned in Michael’s favour when he was living in San Francisco in the 1970s. Knowing Michael was artistic, a family friend asked Michael to make some masks to sell in his shop. He made some Lone Ranger style black masks, and they “sold like crazy”.

Michael started making the masks more flamboyant and colourful, and they continued to sell.

The friend began selling the masks in New york, Rio and Europe.

“It was a completely new form,” Michael says. “It was just that time in history when that group of people was just identifying themselves. And the mask was a perfect form because it was a form of concealment, and transforming your personality.”

Michael’s masks appeared in Hollywood movies, on record album covers, and in some of the photos of famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

The masks were evolving into larger and more sculptural art forms. They found their way to New Orleans, where they had a long association with the Mardi Gras tradition. It was during this time that Michael built a boat and sailed round the world, making masks and shipping them back to New Orleans for several years until he finally settled in Australia.

Here, an acquaintance convinced him that he should show his work as fine art objects, which he has continued to do with great success.

“I think people respond to them because they identify with them,” says Michael.

“They’re a face, and they really dominate on the wall. They kind of become a personality in the home. And in time, you always want that there. It’s like a pet, or a personality.”

Michael Taylor’s exhibition titled “Character Lines” will be held at Art on Cairncross, Cairncross Corner, Maleny, 5429 6404 from April 16 to May 1. artoncairncross.com.au

art dates

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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 through autumn:

April ROTARY ARTCOAST – THE SHADFORTH $10,000 PRIZE

This prestigious exhibition will display a wide variety of works from selected Sunshine Coast artists. when April 8, 9 and 10 where Rumba Resort, The Esplanade, Caloundra.

THREE WOMEN NO FRONTIERS

Praising the life-affirming experience of multicultural exposure and their mutual quest to abolish frontiers, Christine, Pamela and Pauline Maudy present their perceptions of their shared world. when Now until April 24 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

MONO BROW

Nambour-based artist Evangeline Cachinero playfully balances lowbrow and highbrow art culture with a little tongue-in-cheek and positions her art “somewhere in the middle of the two”.

Featured on page 90 is The Crucifixion by Evangeline Cachinero which will be included in the exhibition. when Now until April 24 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

PASTELS BY GEOFFREY PROUD

Hop into the Easter holiday spirit with witty and whimsical new pastels featuring rascally rabbits and vibrant colours. Featured on page 92 is Friends

by Geoffrey Proud which will be included in the exhibition. when Now until April 30 where Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery, 138 Burnett Street, cnr Townsend Road, Buderim. 5450 1722 tiffanyjonesfineart.com.au

HAL BARTON

No other artist captures the colours of the Sunshine Coast and the natural light of the Australian bush like legendary artist Hal Barton. when Now until April 30 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 montvilleartgallery.com.au 90 salt

The Crucifixion, Evangeline Cachinero

PAINTING SURVEY OF THE SHIPWRECK CHERRY VENTURE Presenting an extended survey of paintings of the wreck from various perspectives, this exhibition explores Stephen Phibbs’ creative journey as he documents the changing wreck that has fascinated him for many years. when Now until May 22 where Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au

DREAMING OR REALITY? JOSEF LANC

An exhibition of digital prints depicting improbable situations with highly realistic imagery. when Now until May 22 where Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au

DARRYL TROTT

View original paintings and limited edition prints by one of the world’s greatest watercolour artists. when Now until June where Landsborough Galleries, 27 Caloundra Street, Landsborough. 5439 9943 landsboroughgalleries.com.au

PAINTING & DRAWING CLASSES

Sonja Georgeson will conduct classes that cover all levels, mediums, styles and subjects. Featured on page 93 is Veiled by Sonja Georgeson who will be the teacher for these classes. when Now until June where Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Maleny-Stanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au

ROBERT HAGEN

This exhibition will display a moving range of quality oil paintings from beach scenes to the outback. when Now until June where Landsborough Galleries, 27 Caloundra Street, Landsborough. 5439 9943 landsboroughgalleries.com.au

GROUP EXHIBITION: 3D @ THE GALLERY EUMUNDI

Ceramics and sculpture showcased by the best of the gallery’s 3D artists. Featured on page 92 is Star Shepherd by Di West which will be included in the exhibition. when April 13 to May 8 where The Gallery Eumundi, 1 Gridley Street, Eumundi. 5442 8365 thegalleryeumundi.com.au

YOU CAN”T EAT MONEY

An abstract figurative reflection of artist Belinda Herford’s strong social and environmental values. when April 15 to May 15 where Sable Gallery, 2 Quamby Place, Noosa Sound. 5474 8008 belindaherford.com

MICHAEL TAYLOR LEATHER MASK SCULPTURES

Exquisite masks hand-sculpted from leather by internationally renowned artist Michael Taylor. when April 16 to May 1 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au

BECOMINGS

Sunshine Coast artist Meaghan Shelton presents a new body of work that explores the rigour and tradition of painting. when April 29 to May 21 where Cooroy Butter Factory, 10 Maple Street, Cooroy.

Summer, John Maitland

INNER BEAUTY AND BEYOND REALISM – DUET

Peter Heuscher touches our sense of real beauty once again in his exhibition Inner Beauty. Beyond Realism includes evocative abstracted images tracing the Mary River’s journey to the ocean. when April 29 to June 5 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

DIRTY DOZEN ARTMAKERS NOOSA

The exhibition will showcase new works by 12 Fine Arts and Arts Diploma graduates from the Noosa area. when April 29 to June 5 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

UP IN SMOKE

The concept of miniature artworks en masse has been intriguing art lovers from the beginning of ‘Up in Smoke’, where 150 matchboxes were filled with a ceramic artwork individually crafted by contributing artists. View the latest works of this growing collection at this exhibition. when April 29 to June 5 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

ONE FOR THE ANIMALS

This exhibition aims to promote awareness of the suffering endured by animals specifically raised for food. when April 29 to June 5 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

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friends, Geoffrey Proud

May CLAssIC sENsuALITY BY NORMAN LINDsAY Classic nudes with a touch of exotic sensuality are unveiled in a new collection of Norman Lindsay limited edition facsimiles. when May to June where Tiffany Jones fine Art Gallery, 138 Burnett street, cnr Townsend Road, Buderim. 5450 1722 tiffanyjonesfineart.com.au

JOhN POINTON

AusTRALIAN BODY ART CARNIVALE MAskED GALLERY ART wALk

his first solo exhibition sold out in ninety minutes and a year later, with twenty-four paintings on show, his second exhibition sold out in forty minutes, causing a sensation in the art world. when May 1 to 31 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main street, Montville.

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The Gallery Eumundi will be participating in this event for 2011.

Tickets include entry to the galleries, food and beverages, and a masquerade mask. when friday May 13 at 6pm where The Australian Body Art Carnivale, Eumundi. australianbodyart.com.au

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AN INTRODuCTION TO sILVERsMIThING

The exhibition features a compelling collection of vibrant works by this much-loved Queensland artist. when May 6 to 29 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au

kim Cox, Alex Bull and scott Mitchell will teach students the essential techniques for making jewellery. when May 21 and 22 where Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Maleny-stanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au

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zhONGJIAN: MIDwAY

A group showing of six seasoned Queensland artists reveals the colours, events and lifestyles of summer in a variety of mediums. featured on page 91 is summer by John Maitland which will be included in the Coast watch exhibition. when May 7 to 28 where Art Nuvo Gallery, 25 Gloucester Road, Buderim.

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A timely exhibition, curated by Jin sha, that reveals the mesh of associations and influences that operate in our trans-cultural world. A wollongong City Gallery touring exhibition. when May 25 to July 3 where Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au star shepherd, Di west

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June OLGA GARNER-MORRIS

A talented and versatile artist, Olga is best recognised for her traditional landscape paintings portraying the spectacular scenery of the fascinating places she has lived. when June 1 to 30 where Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 montvilleartgallery.com.au

CRAIG MEDSON

A display of harmonious sculptures in marble, sandstone and bronze. when June 3 to 26 where Art on Cairncross, 3 Panorama Place, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au

RED MAN

Caroline Magerl explores the act of painting itself, the fleeting impression caught and explored on canvas. Indulge in her intriguing concepts of thought in this powerful exhibition. when June 8 to July 3 where The Gallery Eumundi, 1 Gridley Street, Eumundi. 5442 8365 thegalleryeumundi.com.au

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BATIK OF JAVA

In 2009, UNESCO recognised Javanese batik as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To celebrate, the Noosa Regional Gallery is bringing together two batik collections. when June 10 to July 24 where Noosa Regional Gallery, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org

DRAWING ADVENTURE with Sonja Georgeson

Exploring and experimenting with different drawing media and surfaces. when June 18 and 19 where Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Maleny-Stanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au

Veiled, Sonja Georgeson

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art space LADIEs DAY fAshIONs 1871 artist e. prĂŠval medium watercolour on paper size 440 x 480mm framed price $2000 highly strung picture framing, cnr lowe street and memorial drive, eumundi.

5442 7044 highlystrung.com.au

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Inspiring, challenging and moving, these pieces featured in saltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own gallery space give pause for thought. here are our featured artworks for autumn.

QuEENsLAND hOusEs artist greg adams medium acrylic on stretched canvas size 1070 x 430mm price $3500 montville art gallery, 138 main street, montville.

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fLORAL sYMPhONY LTD ED PRINT artist darryl trott medium watercolour on paper.

Limited edition print. size 860 x 400mm price $355 landsborough galleries, 27 caloundra street, landsborough. 5439 9943 landsboroughgalleries.com.au

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DAGGY NAG artist elli schlunke medium bronze size 150 x 250 x 70mm price $820 art on cairncross, cairncross corner, maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au

SORROW artist belinda herford medium oil on belgian linen size 1300 x1300mm price $8000 sable gallery, 2 quamby place, noosa sound. 5474 8008 belindaherford.com

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teed off the waiting Do you know who I can’t stand?

Coffee drinkers.

There I am waiting in line to be served at a café in Collins Street and the person in front is ordering coffee.

How long does it take to make a cup of coffee? Coffee making is a ritual that demands the attention of everyone within earshot. It’s not so much the tedious ordering but the preparation. It starts with two thumping bangs on the bench rather like a judge hitting his gavel to signal the start of proceedings. This is followed by swishing and swooshing. And it doesn’t end until the barista carves what I am sure is a pagan design on the froth.

And all the while everyone in the queue must stand in reverential silence, watching and waiting. And this is just the way coffee drinkers like it.

After all, they are at the centre of all this commotion. It’s all done for them; to satisfy their need, their desire – no, their shameless lust – for coffee.

For coffee drinkers it’s all about me. Look at me. I’m a coffee drinker and I’m ordering a coffee that takes a long time and a lot of noise to prepare. Did you know that coffee has mystical powers? If a coffee drinker drinks a ‘sophisticated coffee’ then they think that coffee has the power to make them more sophisticated.

It’s a bit sad really. All too often coffee drinkers think they’re, you know, a bit la-di-dah. Well they’re not.

Do you know, coffee drinkers, that the only reason no one has ever told you this before is because we tea people are too polite. That’s right. We are so well mannered that we don’t want to create a scene.

Well not any more.

I’m calling on tea drinkers everywhere to take their rightful place amid the beverage hierarchy. Never heard of the beverage hierarchy?

That’s probably because you’re a coffee drinker.

Only tea drinkers know about the beverage hierarchy. At the pinnacle of this drinks pyramid is the red-wine drinker. And as you’ve probably guessed I also don’t drink red wine. I am doubly damned.

There I am on a plane bumped into business where flight attendants offer wine with the meal. The attendants smile, the red-wine drinkers smile. They have a cosy discussion about wine, they titter and they tatter in a red-wine-colluding sort of way.

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bonding between waiter and waited-upon. I am offered red wine but reject it. I am offered white wine but reject it. I am offered coffee but reject it. Finally I am offered tea.

But by the time I am offered tea the red-wine guy has been topped up. Here is the beverage hierarchy writ large. Red-wine guy gets seconds before tea person get firsts. Beverage hierarchy!

I think the Americans have the right idea: they’ve created a Tea Party. Here is a political movement designed solely to advance the rights and interests of tea drinkers everywhere. I want to be President of the Australian Tea Party. Then we’ll show those coffee drinkers a thing or two.

In the office coffee drinkers happily go on about needing a heartstarter in the morning meaning a strong cup of coffee. But not just any coffee: it has to be the right beans, the right barista, the right … on-and-on it goes. Do you ever hear tea drinkers carrying on like this? No. We go to the kitchen, get a cup of hot water, put in a tea bag and start work. No fuss.

No look-at-me-I’m-a-coffeedrinker carry on.

“All too often coffee drinkers think they’re, you know, a bit la-di-dah.”

As you can imagine this injustice rankles with tea drinkers everywhere. But not all tea drinkers share my outrage. Apparently there are some people who drink tea at home but coffee when out. These people are completely bi-drinkual. This is very sad.

Clearly so oppressed are some tea drinkers that they feel compelled to live a double life; a life of shame about who they really are.

Come out tea drinkers and be proud of your beverage orientation.

I have a dream. I dream of a time when tea drinkers get served before red-wine drinkers get top-ups. I dream of a time when cafés charge for the time it takes to prepare hot drinks. And I dream of a time when coffee is prepared without thumping and swooshing.

Because if coffee was prepared in silence, as for tea, then coffee would cease to have appeal to those who clearly like to be at the centre of attention.

Follow KPMG Partner Bernard Salt on Facebook/ BernardSaltDemographer, twitter.com/bernardsalt, bernardsalt.com.au, bsalt@kpmg.com.au To see more illustrations by Peter Hollard visit peterhollardart.com

in your dreams

open connection to land and sea words kate johns photos anastasia kariofyllidis

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Brian Jewell made it to the auction of a beach house in a winding, hillside crescent in Coolum with only seconds to spare.

HIS HAIR STILL wet from his early morning surf, he raced to pick up his brother-in-law before arriving at the two-bedroom fibro cottage with enough time to walk through the door, fall in love with the position and put the winning bid on the property.

He had not mentioned to his wife Margot that he was going to an auction that Saturday morning, but fortunately Margot also fell in love with the beach house.

And what was not to love? It straddles the steep Coolum hillside and its saltwater pool sits above the home. Its thick coastal scrub fringes the boundary and it has piercing blue views across to Point Perry and the ocean.

The Jewells were bursting at the seams in their three-bedroom townhouse in Coolum after relocating from Sydney. The couple had bought it to live in and run their business downstairs, but they had since opened its doors to their son, daughter and her boyfriend, so living space was tight.

It wasn’t until the final papers were signed that Brian and Margot learnt that the architect who designed the split-level beach house was celebrated architect Lindsay Clare. Last year, Lindsay and his architect wife Kerry were awarded Australia’s top architecture national prize – the Gold Medal for Architecture.

In the early days, Lindsay and Kerry Clare cut their design teeth under the direction of Gabriel Poole on the coast before setting up their own business in Mooloolaba. This is where they designed residential Queensland homes for twenty-five years before moving into the commercial and urban arenas in Sydney.

Both Brian and Margot appreciated the design and structural bones of the original house and approached Lindsay to design the extension, which was to add bedrooms, bathrooms and a garage.

“It took me ages to track him [Lindsay] down,” says Brian. “I finally tracked him down in Sydney and he actually spoke to me – I couldn’t believe it, he knew the house straight away.

“We spoke for about forty minutes and he said ‘I would love to do the renovations for you but we’ve changed a little bit since Mooloolaba.

We now have a staff of 85 and we’re now doing multi-billion dollar projects in China, so you’ll be waiting about three years’.”

Lindsay went on to recommend architect Stuart Vokes from Owen & Vokes, a tight-knit architecture firm in Brisbane, to design the extension. Stuart, who had worked on previous Lindsay Clare projects, jumped at the chance when Brian offered him the project.

Brian and Margot enlisted their builder brother-in-law Ian Callaghan from Fauna Homes to build the extension.

Fondly known as the Point Perry beach house, due to its multitiered view of the coastal point that lies between Point Arkwright in the south and Coolum Beach in the north, the original fibro beach house has been transformed into a five-level home that leans into the steep coastal terrain.

Brian says the design brief given to Stuart for the renovation was refreshingly open.

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“It’s actually quite rare to work with a client who is that trusting and bold,” says Stuart.

First time visitors to the home are greeted by two mature Pandanus trees that sit on either side of the boundaries casting spiky shadows on garden beds of native grasses below. At street level sits the two-car garage dug into the block, the façade softened by streams of pigweed that hang down from a courtyard garden.

Steps wind up the eastern side of the boundary to the second level, which is home to a cleverly designed one-bedroom studio with its own kitchenette, ensuite, living area and courtyards. This level was part of the original beach house and has since had a face-lift and is home to Brian and Margot’s daughter.

From here guests take the final set of steps, providing views of the surrounding coastal scrub that sits above the pool and a courtyard brimming with native flora.

The original entrance to the house was redesigned by Stuart and his team by manipulating the orientation of the main entrance, incorporating floor to ceiling glass walls and digging out the courtyard between the house and pool to plant natives, including a standard coast wattle tree.

Stuart explains that this alteration served to connect the home between the coastal scrub, the pool and the sweeping ocean views.

“There is now an acknowledgment of the whole setting,” says Stuart.

From inside the home, the view is a palette of blues from the ocean and the sky.

The sweeping promenade continues along staircases, corridors and verandahs encouraging guests to explore the house from start to finish. As part of the 100 salt

renovation, the kitchen and dining area was moved to the back of the house so that bathers in the pool could socialise with those in the living area below.

The custom-built American oak table and open plan kitchen area lends itself to shared, relaxed dinners offering views of the ocean and bush.

The promenade continues to wind casually through the various levels of the house showing subtle American oak finishes in the bathrooms, Asian artifacts from Margot and Brian’s travels and a natural colour palette of timber, black and white.

“We chose a colour palette that is a bit more enduring, less fashionable, something that provides a simple backdrop to everyone’s lives,” says Stuart.

The promenade ends on the fifth level, which was also part of the extension. On this level the all-weather timber breezeway forms a bridge over the western side of the pool and provides access to the master and guest bedrooms and bathrooms.

Black, hardwood casement windows flank the screen-free verandah, providing framed views of the ocean, the turquoise pool below and the peeling paperbarks.

The smell of salt lingers with the scent of tea tree and melaleuca and the conversations of birds can be heard in the nearby bush. At the end of the promenade sits a comfy day bed beckoning those that pass by to sit, relax and absorb the tranquil surrounds.

Brian is in the enviable position of being able to check the swell from his bedroom window each morning.

And at the right time of year, Brian and Margot can watch migrating whales cruise past their windows.

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5341 8722. 2. Lounge upholstered in botanist by Andrew Martin. Price available on application. Available at Meron somers, 35 Chermside street, Teneriffe. 3252 2825 or meronsomersinteriors.com 3. Metropolitan TV unit in limed oak $1445. Available at watermelon Red, shop 12, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill street, Coolum Beach. 5473 9550 or watermelonred.com.au 4. orson and blake owl bookends in carved soapstone $89. Available at Giddy and Grace, shop 2, 1 Maple street, Maleny. 5494 3636 or giddyandgrace.com 5. white Shabby lamp $220. Available at The white house, shop 9, Davos, Thomas street, Noosaville, 5449 7078 or shop 14, Noosa harbour, Tewantin, 5474 2377 or thewhitehousenoosa.com.au 6. russian killim $99, 2750 x 1290mm. Available at Gnu Cargo, 17 Rene street, Noosaville. 5474 2490 or gnucargo.com 7. Two-bottle wine cooler $195. Available at The Two Old Ladies Tea and Gift shop, shop 2, 25 factory street, Pomona. 5485 0147. 8. Palm beach scented candle $34.95. Available at Carmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Designs and homewares, shop 20, The Peninsular, Mooloolaba. 5444 3767 or carmelsdesigns.com.au 9. Triptych Tree of Life wall art $545. Available at fae Rentoul summerhouse, 2/3 Gibson Road, Noosaville. 5474 3900 or summerhouse.com.au

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meet the designer

music made with soul words leigh robshaw

Three paths led Anthony Pizzica to this point in his life.

The Maleny-based luthier and musician exudes passion as he tells the story of how he came to be creating superb handcrafted guitars using only renewable tonewoods, most of them sourced locally.

Relaxing on a couch in his workshop, which overlooks untouched forest on the outskirts of Maleny, he points out that he is essentially a musician who makes guitars: “I never want to be a guitar maker who plays a bit of music,” he says.

Having said that, his enthusiasm for making beautiful guitars that beg to be played is obvious. He leaps off the couch and pulls a guitar off the display wall, running his hand along its curves to demonstrate how carefully he has shaped its arch to sit comfortably over a player’s leg.

“The biggest compliment people can give me is to say my guitars feel like they’ve been built by a human being,” he says. “My guitars have got a soul, and that’s such a big thing in this day and age, when most guitars are churned out by furniture factories in China. They’re all highly glossed, brightly coloured and glittered. For me, it takes away from the soul of a guitar.”

The first path Anthony took was to learn music. Anthony began playing guitar at 13, and he and his wife Karla worked as professional musicians for 11 years, playing 200 shows a year, before retiring recently to start a family.

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apprenticeship in carpentry and joining, which equipped him with the practical skills he would later require as a luthier.

The third path was a retail job at a large Brisbane music store, where he learned to maintain and repair guitars. From there his skills led to him building his first guitar about six years ago.

“I’ll never sell it because it’s fraught with mistakes but I still love it,” he laughs. You can see where I oversanded it but it’s so beautiful.

I never perform with it, it’s purely my comfort guitar, something I love just sitting on a beach playing.

“Next I invented an instrument called the ‘gypsitar’, and that got me some work developing instruments for other musicians, which then got me into making custom guitars. In mid-2010 I decided to go into production guitars, which essentially means you’re doing production runs of ten of each guitar, so you can get the price down.”

It was when Anthony moved to Maleny about four years ago that his various paths converged and his business Zed Instrument Company was born. After he met renowned local woodcrafter David Linton, who has become a business mentor and friend, it was a natural progression to go into sustainable lutherie.

“Dave and I have this fantastic symbiotic relationship; we help each other. He’s really passionate about wood but is also interested in guitars and loves music. We teach each other and feed off each other’s enthusiasm and passion. He’ll bring me planks of wood and

go, ‘ya gotta see this man. This plank of wood was struck by lightning and you’ve gotta make a guitar out of it’. We’re like ten-year-old kids.”

piece of wood that’s not going to work, but I think Australian woods are world-class in terms of tone woods.

Anthony’s vibrant conversation regularly includes the word ‘balance’: the balance between art and business; the balance between using local, sustainable timbers like camphor laurel, maple and bunya for the bodies of his guitars. Balance is also realising the need to import electrical components and “not be so fanatical”.

“Going into production, I’ve been able to experiment with new species and in doing so I’ve found some species that work really well, such as bunya pine, which is getting a huge reputation around the world as a substitute for sitka spruce, and weed timbers like camphor laurel.

When he says he makes guitars that don’t cost the earth, he means it literally and metaphorically. Buying a $10,000 guitar custom built by a luthier is out of the question for most musicians, so many rely on substandard imports. Anthony’s aim is to create beautiful instruments musicians will love to play without the exorbitant price tag – either for the musician or the planet.

“When it comes to lutherie, there is a massive trend in using endangered species,” he says.

“Luthiers really boast about using woods like cedar, spruce and ebony without giving much thought to the environmental implications.

I understand that if you’re only building one guitar a year, you don’t want to risk using a

“I just really believe there are other people out there like me who are passionate about holding a real guitar made by a human being that sounds great, looks great and is really practical and balanced, but has an energy and an ethic to it.”

Judging by the speed with which his reputation is spreading, with enquiries now rolling in from some of the music industry’s biggest names, it looks like he might be right. zedinstrumentcompany.com.au FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Anthony’s work. saltmagazine.com.au 105

great outdoors

get fresh words leigh robshaw photo kate johns

Shaded by verdant forests, animated by the sounds of birdsong and flowing water, the Sunshine Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooling waterholes, rivers, creeks and lakes offer a refreshing change from our sun-soaked beaches. Here we share eight of our favourite spots for an invigorating freshwater swim.

1. Gardners Falls, Maleny

3. Lake Baroon, Maleny and Montville

Cascades tumble parallel to a short, flat walking track meandering through subtropical forest to the main attraction: a robust waterfall plunging into a deliciously deep, circular waterhole. Easily accessible, it offers a few picnic tables and a high Tarzan swing for the brave.

Also known as Baroon Pocket Dam, Lake Baroon is perfect for a day of swimming and non-motorised watersports, with shallow childfriendly areas around the edges. It is occasionally closed depending on water quality, so check signs.

Turn off the Maleny-Landsborough Road into Obi Lane South (about 3km from Maleny town centre). Follow for 1.5km to the end of the road.

Maleny side: follow North Maleny Road onto Baroon Pocket Road and follow to the end (7km north-east of Maleny). Montville side: turn off the Maleny-Montville Road onto Western Avenue and turn left onto Narrows Road (5km south-west of Montville).

2. Kondalilla Falls Rock Pools, Montville A lush oasis overlooking a vast rainforest valley, the rock pools at Kondalilla Falls are accessible via a 3.2km return walk through a forest of eucalypts, palms and ferns. The main waterhole is a cooling haven surrounded by rocks on which to bask. The walk out requires reasonable fitness and toilets are located at the top only.

4. Ewan Maddock Dam, Mooloolah

Turn onto Kondalilla Falls Road from Flaxton Drive and follow for about 2km to the car park.

Located about 5km south-east of Mooloolah along the Mooloolah Connection Road.

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Surrounding bushland provides shade, while the recently upgraded swimming area offers a beachfront with new landscaping, access paths into the water and a launch area for canoes.

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5. Booloumba Creek and Little Yabba Creek (Charlie Moreland) and Mary River, Kenilworth Visit these quintessentially Aussie creeks and the majestic Mary river and you’ll feel positively un-Australian if you don’t skim a pebble.

Water depth varies along the lengths of the creeks and river, but both offer waterholes deep enough for swimming plus superb campgrounds.

The turnoff to Sunday Creek Road leading to Charlie Moreland is 7km south-west of Kenilworth. Another 500m south along Maleny-Kenilworth Road is the turnoff for Booloumba Creek.

Visit derm.qld.gov.au/parks for updates on road closures. The best swimming spot to bathe in the tea stained waters of the Mary River is accessed by Kenilworth Homestead, which is open to the public and offers a variety of accommodation options.

Access is on 2760 Eumundi, Kenilworth Road, Kenilworth.

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6. Mothar Mountain Rock Pools, Gympie When the beaches are scalding hot, escape to the forested sanctuary of Mothar (‘mother’) Mountain Rock Pools for a freshwater dip. Cool off in a rock hollow as ice-cold water bubbles around your body, or take a plunge into the main rock pool, which is large enough for a decent swim.

Situated adjacent to Boulder Creek Holiday Centre, Hill Road, Mothar Mountain, Gympie.

7. Noosa River Noosa’s beaches are hard to beat, but a day on the tranquil Noosa River makes a nice change. With year-round freshwater inflow, it offers plenty of idyllic spots for a freshwater frolic, including Boreen Point, Elanda Point, Figtree Point, Harry’s Hut and Kinaba Island on Lake Cootharaba.

Noosa River starts in the Great Sandy National Park and flows south into the ocean at Noosa. Call National Parks, Marine Parks and Forests for more information. 5449 7792.

8. Buderim Forest Park Better suited to a paddle than a swim, Buderim Forest Park’s waterhole is an emerald jewel hidden inside a small pocket of subtropical rainforest.

The entrance from Lindsay Road to the north of the park takes you along a boardwalk and then across stepping stones to reach the waterfall. There is also a shorter route from Quorn Close to the south.

If you’re an intrepid traveller and thrive on a good adventure than Mongolia is the destination for you. Horse enthusiasts will be swept up with the spirit of the wild-eyed Mongolian ponies, the far-reaching, infinite steppe and the thrill of roaming a country that is fence-free. This 19 Day Khovsgol Horseback Trek which includes Naadam Festival starts from $3175 USD per person.

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tourist information B ackward Glance Can you guess where on the Sunshine Coast this is and in what year?

Visit saltmagazine.com.au to find out.

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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). Autumn (March to May) days are always popular with visitors with an average temperature between 16°C to 26°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............................. 56 km Mooloolaba to Maleny......................... 41km Caloundra to Kenilworth...................... 77km

school holidays April 16, 2011 to April 26, 2011.

emergency telephone numbers Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Police, Coastguard, Rescue...................................... 000 Poisons Information Centre.................... 131 126

(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:

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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.

Cotton Tree Street Market, King St, Cotton Tree, every Sunday, 7am – noon.

slip, slop, slap and wrap

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Eumundi Courtyard Village Market, 76 Memorial Dr, Eumundi, every Saturday 8am – 2pm, Wednesday 8.30am – 1pm.

Caloundra Markets, Bulcock Street, Caloundra, every Sunday, 8am – 1pm.

Slip on a shirt (preferably a long-sleeved shirt).

Slop on the sunscreen (30+ and reapply as needed).

Slap on a hat.

Caloundra Country Markets, Central Park, Arthur St, Caloundra every Sunday.

Wrap some UV protective sunglasses around your eyes.

Noosa Farmers Market, AFL Grounds, Weyba Rd, Noosaville, every Sunday, 7am to noon.

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 2pm – and try to take advantage of shade when possible.

Maleny Market, Maple Street, every Sunday, 8am – 2pm.

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useful information when visiting the sunshine coast dental

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& MoleMax SKIN CHECK CLINIC

Riverside Dental offers swift, accurate and pain free treatments. Friendly advice and great value.

Suite 2/17 Thomas Street, Noosaville.

5455 5066 or 0432 907 559 (after hours) riversidedental.com.au

BULK BILL Open 8am - 7pm every day, Shop A, Coolum Village Shopping Centre 8-26 Birtwill St, Coolum Beach 5471 6333 lookingafteryourhealth.com.au

SKIN CHECK CLINIC Coolum Chambers Building 5-7 Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach 5446 5300 lookingafteryourhealth.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 04211 62007 or email stevenpilcher@bigpond.com

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

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