your complete sunshine coast lifestyle magazine spring 2011 queensland australia
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Welcome to the spring 2011edition of salt.
If you were a super hero what would be your name and super power?
I fell in love with our spring cover image the moment I clapped eyes on it. This humpback whale’s smile, the clarity of the ripples in the ocean, the silver barnacles suckered to his chin and the serenity that this gentle giant of the deep evokes is overwhelming. Don’t you agree? To feature an animal on the cover of salt is a first for us. We have 24 covers under our belt, featuring evocative Sunshine Coast panoramas. But for the 25th cover talented local photographer Chantal Henderson persuaded us to step outside our cover comfort zone with this awe-inspiring shot. It’s the perfect time of year to feature ‘Humpy’ (his office nickname), the humpback whale. From September to November, whilst general life hums along for us landlubbers, the east coast of Australia turns into a one-way highway for these migratory whales, who motor south to their feeding grounds in the Antarctic waters. During their annual migration the humpback whales travel up to 10,000km with groups of young males typically leading the charge followed by pregnant cows and cow-calf pairs. I was shocked to learn that between 1949 and 1962, 8300 humpback whales were killed for their oil and bone. It is estimated that when the Australian east coast whaling industry ended in 1963, the east coast population of humpbacks had been reduced to a little over 100 individuals. Thankfully, the humpback whales are a robust species and the population has made a steady recovery of around 10 to 11 per cent a year and in 2006 was estimated at about 8000.
subeditor and writer, jane fynes-clinton name: The Streak power: The ability to travel at the speed of light, so that I may be in more places at once. Oh, and the power of eight arms and two brains to manage it all would be good, too!
fashion and beauty editor, claire plush name: The Time Keeper power: The power to slow down or speed up time depending on the situation. For example more time spent on leisure, less time on long plane trips.
writer, leigh robshaw name: Truth Girl power: Detect lies with my X-ray intuition, enforcing honesty on organisations and individuals around the world.
designer, michelle weller name: Miss K.i.s.s power: The ability to shoot simplicity into the lives of all that need it.
salt is proud to be an advocate for these whales and in ‘secrets only a local would know’ on page 14, we’ve listed some of the best locations to whale watch on the Sunshine Coast from shoreline and sea. And finally, if you suffer from salt deficiency between editions, subscribe to pepper, our monthly e-zine (electronic magazine). pepper lands into the inboxes of our salty friends who are regular visitors to the coast or are locals who love exploring the coast with the enthusiasm of a tourist. To celebrate pepper’s first birthday, if you sign up for pepper and nominate a handful of friends, you’ll go into the draw to win a threenight accommodation package at Hastings Street’s only five-star resort, Sheraton Noosa Resort & Spa. Valued at $1980, the prize includes buffet breakfasts during your stay and complimentary entry to the aqua therapy area and steam room. To check out Sheraton Noosa Resort & Spa online visit sheraton.com/noosa Until next time, become a fan on and follow us on
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cover photographer, chantal henderson Australian wildlife and landscape photographer Chantal Henderson has travelled to Argentina extensively since 2002 to photograph the beautiful landscapes of the remote Patagonian Andes Mountains, the sprawling glaciated valleys and resident orca (killer whales). She was also the photographer for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Antarctica for an anti-whaling campaign. She’s currently working on publishing a Wild Patagonia photographic book which is an accumulation of ten years work of photographing Southern Chile and Argentina. Closer to home, she also loves getting up close and personal with our own unique wildlife. chantalhendersonphotography.com
writer, linda read name: Technogirl power: To be able to understand how to use Facebook (what’s it for?) and my mobile phone.
writer, alexander fynes-clinton name: The Electric Avenger power: Instead of constantly zapping myself, as I do now, I would be able to willingly distribute electricity shocks to others (think of a male version of X-Men’s Storm – complete with trademark, body-hugging lycra outfit).
photographer, anastasia kariofyllidis name: Polygraphor (pronounced with an accent on “or” in a deep, husky voice) power: To detect lies at will.
writer, frances frangenheim name: Jeannie (genie) power: With a blink of my eyes and a wiggle of my nose, I would teleport to another place and time (France in summer, please). salt is proofread by jane todd
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salt ingredients
spring 2011
“salt is born of the purest parents, the sun and the sea”
Pythagoras
in the limelight 06 Treasures found in secret Passage
The wonders that abound in Pumicestone Passage are best enjoyed from the water.
16 SAND SENTINELS, HOMEGROWN HEROES
Modern-day surf lifesavers on the Sunshine Coast have continued and built on a strong tradition.
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Harvie Allison
T O TALLY COVER E D This image was captured on the ‘Tasman Venture’ with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III using a 24-70mm lens at 1/1600 shutter speed with f/2.8 aperture.
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Cover kindly supplied by Chantal Henderson.
close to home 14 secrets only a local would know
chantalhendersonphotography.com
Get authentic information on the best things about the Sunshine Coast from the only people who really know – the locals.
34 precinct feature
Peregian Beach has it all: a wide open beach, wondrous natural beauty and divine eateries.
Editorial and Advertising enquiries: Email: info@saltmagazine.com.au General Enquiries: 0438 851 981 Website: saltmagazine.com.au 4 salt
106 GREAT OUTDOORS
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salt gives the low down on the best places to play golf on the Sunshine Coast.
living & lifestyle 78 MEET THE DESIGNER
96 taste & tipples 46 table talk
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creative expressions
28 pursuit of passion
The family behind Lucas Parklands has created a world-class classical music venue on the Sunshine Coast.
32 pageturners
salt looks at a handful of top-rate, new books to devour during fresh spring days.
86 artist
salt meets pastel artist Jan Hodgson, whose passion for zebras and still life is infectious.
90 OFF THE WALL
Artist Sonja Georgeson shares why she loves to help other aspiring artists find their groove.
92 art DATES
The Sunshine Coast has some of the best art galleries in the world. Find out what will be on show, where in the spring months.
96 art SPACE
salt’s very own gallery space, featuring some of the finest artworks on the coast.
salt meets Anne Everingham, whose jewellery is inspired by beauty in unexpected places.
100 in your dreams
A couple finds beauty and serenity in one of Noosa’s exclusive developments.
104 homewares
The dining room has never looked finer.
salt meets Tony Lauriston, head chef of Harry’s Restaurant on Buderim, and learns how skills from previous jobs can come in handy.
50 PRODUCE PEOPLE
Trevor Hart uses buffalo milk for his sumptuous creations at Cedar Street Cheeserie.
52 plate up
salt showcases four gourmet lunch dishes created by the finest chefs on the coast.
54 CHEF’S SELECTION
The chef at Sandbar Café and Kiosk shares a treasured recipe.
56 RELAXED RECIPEs
High tea has never been more swanky and delicious than with these easy recipes.
60 SALT CELLAR
Sauvignon blanc is enjoying a welldeserved resurgence in popularity.
glamour & glit z 62 fashion
A sensational spread of the most fabulous styles for spring.
staples
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 spring.
24 look at me
salt meets artist Cezary Stulgis, who creates unusual forms using traditional techniques.
98 grains of SALT
Demographer Bernard Salt discusses the Sunshine Coast’s village attitude.
108 tourist information
Essential info for all visitors to the coast, including travel times, surf safety and market details.
body & beauty
110 Map from noosa to marcoola
82 beauty
111 Map from marcoola to glass house
salt looks at essential products that will revamp your daily skin routine.
112 Main Map
84 PAMPER AND PREEN
Grace Kovac is an expert at revealing skin-deep beauty.
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treasures found in secret passage words linda read photos kate johns and eszter rule
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Within a short passage of time, you can be away from Brisbane’s bustle and on the gleaming white beaches of the Sunshine Coast. But in between these two great cities, there is another kind of passage; a portal through which you can embark on a very different journey.
From the air, it looks like an ancient giant has snapped off a piece of the mainland and moved it out into the sea just enough to let a little stream of water in.
Pumicestone Passage – steeped in history, rich in wildlife and natural beauty, and one of the world’s most ecologically important waterways – is the body of water which separates Bribie Island from the mainland. It stretches for 35 kilometres, from Caloundra in the north to Deception Bay in the south. A marine park with the oldest registered fish habitat in Queensland, it is a narrow, shallow estuary, encompassing a meandering system of channels, sand banks and islands.
From the bay, it looks like a river or a creek – in fact, explorer Matthew Flinders mistook it for one.
My own experience of the Passage is probably similar to many other southeast Queenslanders’ – it is the water you cross when you drive over the bridge to Bribie. It is also the water you fish in, paddle in, and picnic beside. It’s “the calm side” – perennially peaceful, shimmeringly beautiful, and somehow blessedly missed by the main throng of tourists who hurry up and down the coast. It is the playground of the weekend sailor and fisherman, proudly presided over by those famous mountains of glass.
So I decide to explore the Passage by boat.
It is certainly all of this. But like most familiar things, when I decide to dig a little deeper, I discover plenty more.
And from any part of its shore, it looks like the perfect spot to throw in a line or take a dip. But it is from the water itself, they say, that the Passage takes on a new meaning: stories of shipwrecks and sailors come to life, ‘secret’ places not accessible by car come into view and the promise of glimpsing a dugong or a dolphin is ever-present. Flinders landed at the southern end of Pumicestone Passage on Bribie Island, not realising he was actually on an island. He called the Passage “Pumicestone River”, because of the abundance of pumice stone lining the shore. He stayed for about two weeks in the area. For thousands of years, the Gubbi Gubbi people lived on the shores of the Passage, which was a rich source of seafood. Abundant numbers of turtles, dugong, shellfish and fish sustained many generations. > saltmagazine.com.au 7
D elig h t ful d u g o ng While dugong was an important food source for indigenous people in the Pumicestone Passage region, their sustainability was not threatened by Aboriginal fishing methods. Hunters went out in canoes on full moon nights to look for floating trails of seagrass, a sign of dugong feeding below. They thrashed the water with poles to drive the dugong toward the shore. Other hunters waited in the shallows with strong nets, woven from local vines. If they succeeded in catching dugong, there was great feasting and celebration. From the 1840s, early colonists hunted and killed dugong in large numbers, often with indigenous hunters. Dugong oil was said to have miracle health properties, such as being able to cure lung disease and tuberculosis. Fat by-products were made into soap, and dugong bacon and beef were sold. Tusks were made into knife handles. From the 1860s, newspapers reflected public alarm at the rapid decline in the numbers of dugong in the Passage, and the mournful cries of orphaned calves. In 1969, dugong and turtle became protected species under Queensland and Commonwealth law. (Source: Bribie Island Seaside Museum)
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Of course, after Flinders’ ‘discovery’, everything changed. On the day of my journey, the weather is postcard perfect. The water seems like a million mirrors reflecting the sun, which beams from a cloudless sky. Leaving from Sylvan Beach on the Bribie Island side, the tour boat glides easily into the glassy waters of the Passage, heading north. It’s perfect weather, I hope, for spotting a dugong — those mysterious underwater mermaids who are, apparently, sighted weekly. The dugong in Pumicestone Passage have had a long and varied history, and have been the topic of many scientific studies. An extensive study conducted by marine scientists at the University of Queensland identified the southern part of Pumicestone Passage as home to dugong all year round because of the presence of the particular species of seagrasses that the dugong feed on. The study also identified the loss of the limited seagrass habitat through coastal development as a threat to the vulnerable dugong. Today, unfortunately, they do not wish to be seen. But as a splendid consolation, not far into our journey, a pod of bottlenose dolphins appears right next to the boat, almost close enough to touch. The boat stops, cameras click, and the dolphins, to our utter delight, bob and weave like circus performers. When they finish their show, we move on.
Gliding past the wreck of the SS Avon, which was scuttled in 1915, on the island side of the Passage we pass White Patch, and on the mainland side, the small towns of Toorbul and Donnybrook. These are the last signs of development as we glide on into the wilderness, past tiny islands, one of them privately owned. Every now and then, a tiny boat comes into view, with a fisherman or two on board, languidly raising their hands in greeting towards us, as is the way of sea-dwellers. The Glass House Mountains have never looked so grand. I am well acquainted with their ever-changing splendour, depending on which part of dry land you are viewing them from. But I never imagined they could look quite as breathtaking as they do framed by this watery Eden. Some graceful black swans watch us from the shore. Fat pelicans snooze on the beach, and cormorants hold out their wings to dry atop bobbing buoys. A whistling kite soars overhead. Pumicestone Passage is, quite simply, a bird-watcher’s paradise. The Passage is recognised as one of the most important bird habitats on the east coast of Australia, and is protected by its inclusion on three international environmental treaties. More than 40 species of shorebirds have been recorded in the region, and thousands of migratory birds visit the area in the summer months from Siberia, Northern China >
Pum i c e s t on e P assa g e p l a y t i m e • Go cruising – a guided boat tour is the perfect introduction to exploring the area. Ferryman Cruises offers 2, 3, 4 and 6 hour eco cruises of Pumicestone Passage Marine Park, leaving from Bribie Island. 3408 7124 or ferryman.com.au Blue Fleet Cruises and Tours cruise the Passage, leaving from Caloundra. 0434 331 104 or bluefleetcruises.com • Hire a kayak – cruise or fish to your heart’s content, and maybe get up close and personal with the dugongs. Aquarius Sea Kayaks, Bribie Island, cater for beginners to advanced kayakers. 5497 6232 or aquariusseakayaks.net.au • Go gliding – feeling adventurous? Get a bird’s eye view and experience Pumicestone Passage from the air in a glider. Gliding Adventure Flights leave from Caboolture air strip. 1300 667 042 or comegliding.com.au • Hire a boat – fish, explore, find a secluded picnic spot. Spend an afternoon or a couple of hours. Bribie Island Boat Hire also hires kayaks. 0419 967 994 or bribieislandboathire.com • Visit the Bribie Island Seaside Museum. Small, but packed with information about the history and ecology of Pumicestone Passage. 1 South Esplanade, Bongaree, Bribie Island.
The Tripcony family of Cowie Bank, oyster farmers in Pumicestone Passage, circa 1892.
HISTO RICAL PEARLS Pictured at the back right is Thomas Tripcony, who selected 1100 acres at Cowie Bank north of Toorbul on the Passage between Glass House Mountains and Hussey Creek. He took up an oyster licence in front of his property in 1874. The other men in the photo are (L-R) Con Tripcony, an unknown worker, Andrew and Thomas Tripcony (both smoking pipes). In early Brisbane, there was an ‘oyster rush’, not for food, but for the lime which was needed in building mortar. Lime was produced from the oyster shells when they were burnt in kilns. Oyster shell middens, produced by thousands of years of indigenous occupation along Pumicestone Passage, were plundered by European settlers, 10 salt
and when these were exhausted, oysters were dredged from the Passage and burnt alive. This practice was outlawed in 1868, then the focus changed to oysters as food. The Moreton Bay Oyster Company was formed in 1876, and shipped schooner loads of oysters from Pumicestone Passage to Brisbane’s seafood markets. The unrestrained harvesting eventually upset the balance of the bay and an infestation of mud worm raged through the oyster beds, wiping out the industry. From this time on oysters have had to be grown on frames that kept the oyster off the mud. A much smaller oyster industry continues today. (Source: Bribie Island Seaside Museum)
and Mongolia. Twitchers (bird enthusiasts) are rumoured to travel here from almost as far afield as the birds. Jabiru, sea eagles and royal spoonbills are all seen regularly. Further up, we pass through the area of Tripcony Bight – registered as a fish habitat in 1946. No fishing of any kind has been allowed in this area since then, and it’s a ‘go-slow’ area for boats. Throughout the rest of the Passage, only recreational and amateur fishing is allowed, with strict limits on catches. It was not always so; oyster farmers and commercial fishermen made lucrative livings here in the days of early white settlement and well into the twentieth century. Ted Freeman, 83, of Sandstone Point, who has lived his entire life in the area and whose great grandfather, William Freeman, was one of the original European settlers on the Passage, remembers those days well. His father was one of the first commercial fishermen in the area. Ted remembers the mullet being so plentiful in the Passage “you could nearly walk on them”. “My grandfather used to supply the fish cannery at Bribie,” he says. “They never had motors in those days; they had to do all the rowing. They had to row up from Donnybrook, get a load of mullet and row it down there. It was quite a hard life back then.” Passing the Glass House Mountains and Roy’s Headland, we pull in at Lighthouse Reach, on the northern end of Bribie. You can see the high rise of Caloundra across the water from here, but it seems otherworldly, so remote is our location. As the boat meanders back down the Passage, passing remote camping grounds, mud flats and mangroves, and slides back into civilisation, I imagine that next time I drive across the bridge, I’ll be looking a little differently at the water it traverses. I wonder how on earth I have missed so much for so long, and why this place is not positively teeming with tourists. Then I realise, of course, that that is precisely what makes it so beautiful. saltmagazine.com.au 11
six senses salt takes a fresh approach to the powers that we use to experience the world. We look at items that evoke us to see, hear, smell, taste and touch and we’ve tossed in an extra just for fun – feel.
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Illustration courtesy of twigseeds studio, twigseeds.com.au Are you keen to hang one of Kate Knapp’s thoughtful illustrations on your wall? Well, we have good news we’re giving away one of Kate’s prints to a lucky salt reader. What are you waiting for? Visit the WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au
taste Grab a spoon and dig into CocoLuscious, Australia’s first coconut milk-based ice cream. Not only is this vegan treat deliciously smooth but it’s also nut free, gluten free and most flavours are soy free. Each tub is sweetened with agave nectar and is popping with one of 12 rich flavours ranging from vanilla to chai to Mexican chocolate. To taste what the fuss is all about head to Organika, 205 Weyba Road, Noosaville. 5442 4973 or organika.com.au Or try your luck and jump over to our WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au for your chance to win one of six CocoLuscious packages.
hear An overwhelming sense of nostalgia sweeps the senses from the first note of Leader Cheetah’s sophomore release Lotus Skies. An album built on a smart, raw indie sensibility rather than over the top production values, the album’s drifting surf guitar licks and soaring musical arrangements immediately conjure up feelings of years long past. Lotus Skies is a record that finds a perfect medium between the gloomy and melodic, songs brought to life by violins, lapsteel and a slow country tempo. Singer and chief songwriter Dan Crannitch has one of the most unusual voices in the business, and the full scope of his talent is on display here. From the wonderfully full-bodied opening track Midnight Headlights to the touchingly raw Crawling Up A Landslide, the album is magnificently varied in its approach. Essential listening for those keen on taking a soft, laid-back journey down memory lane. Available at iTunes for $17.99. review by alexander fynes-clinton You could win a copy of the album by entering our Lotus Skies giveaway at saltmagazine.com.au
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touch Touch the life of someone working in a developing country by sipping on a fresh brew of fair trade tea. salt’s pick of the bunch is Green Passion which mixes blue mallow flowers, marigold flowers, peach and passionfruit with green tea. It’s a delicious blend that will warm the cockles of your heart in the best way.
For your chance to win a specially craft blend of tea from Metal Tiger Tea Emporium visit our WIN page on saltmagazine.com.au
Available for $11.95 at Metal Tiger Tea Emporium, 253 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville. 5447 1624 or metaltigertea.com.au
smell When you unscrew Flame Hill Vineyard’s 2010 Pinot Gris ($26.50) a savvy nose will inhale the perfume of rose buds and freshly sliced green apple. This 2010 pinot gris has been described as crisp with texture and has a dash of grapefruit with a touch of nutmeg and would work perfectly with a rabbit and pork terrine. Drop into Flame Hill Vineyard, 249 Western Avenue, Montville. 5478 5920 or flamehillvineyard.com.au
see “I only wanted to know the truth, that’s all” is the statement by journalist Julia Jarmond (yet another sublime performance by Kristin Scott Thomas) that sums up the purpose of this subtly beautiful yet earth shattering film – Sarah’s Key. Adapted from the novel by the same name and brought to life with delicacy by French director Gilles PaquetBrenner, the film explores a different side of the holocaust which has previously only be alluded to: that of the French involvement in rounding up more than 13,000 Jews to be put into a stadium and then moved to concentration camps. The story is a journey of self-discovery and burgeoning awareness of the central character Julia as she uncovers the astonishing facts of this time in history as well as unravelling the mystery of a young Jewish girl, Sarah Starzynski, and her heroic escape from one of the concentration camps. While confronting and heart-wrenching, Sarah’s Key is an exploration of truth, history and family and how the simple knowledge of where we come from, no matter how painful, can give us the freedom to truly know ourselves. review by libby munro saltmagazine.com.au 13
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only a local would know EVER WANTED TO GO TO INDIA and feast on the local cuisine? Well, we can’t get you to India but we can help trick your taste buds into being there. If you haven’t already visited Curry Bowl at Buddina, now is the time. Undoubtedly one of the best Indian restaurants on the coast, it serves delicious meals with a side of friendly service. Favourites include tender chicken lahori, soft garlic naans and spiced potato bhondas. This is a local hot spot, so make sure you book! 7/115a Point Cartwright Drive, Buddina. 5478 0800. Map reference: marcoola to glass house, P8.
THERE’S AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK of cycle tracks on the coast, but one of the best would have to be Caloundra’s coastal pathway. This breathtaking nine-kilometre stretch of newly constructed path includes a lighthouse, lakes, creeks and surf as it meanders along Caloundra’s beaches. Although the shared walk and cycle path runs from Point Cartwright in the north to Golden Beach in the south there are different sections for those who want to spread the fun out over several days. A full range of maps can be found at sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. Map reference: marcoola to glass house, 016.
BE AMAZED AND INSPIRED by the majestic humpback whales slowly making their way home after their annual migration north. From September to November, the Sunshine Coast plays host to these magnificent acrobatic creatures and their newborn calves and you’re invited to join the fun. For a guaranteed close up encounter with one of these awe-inspiring animals, book a whale watching tour with Whale One (whaleone.com.au) or Liquid Getaway (liquidgetaway.com.au). You can also grab the binoculars and try some of the coast’s great headland viewing spots including Point Cartwright Kawana, Coolum’s Point Perry or Noosa National Park. Map reference for Point Cartwright: marcoola to glass house, P7. Map reference for Point Perry: noosa to marcoola, O18. Map reference for Noosa National Park: noosa to marcoola, P7.
WITH SPRING WAFTING in the air, head to the French-inspired neighbourhood of Flaxton to indulge your green thumb fetish while nibbling on some French delicacies. Both Le Jardin Centre and Allo Allo French Tearoom open from Thursday to Monday and there is a constant stream of locals in the know, who wander through the sprawling nursery or gobble down irresistible French fare. The petite tearoom is owned by self-confessed, self-taught foodies Tiana and Mariano Basile. It’s no surprise when you have a cabinet filled to the brim with chocolate and macadamia brownies, brulee tarts, tiramisus and blackberry and ricotta cake. 342 Flaxton Drive, Flaxton. 5478 6453.
FANCY LOSING YOURSELF in Morocco for a few hours? Coral Tajine restaurant will take you there with simple Moroccan-inspired décor and spectacular melt-in-the-mouth tajine dishes. The exotic cuisine originates from the heart of north Africa, where dishes are served straight from the traditional earthenware pot in which they are cooked. Each dish is simmered to perfection in the distinctive conical-lidded bowl, infusing mild spices, sweet flavours and tenderising the meat. Friendly staff will help with choosing from the irresistible dishes on offer while bright fabrics and north African lamps and lanterns set the mood. Open Tuesday to Sunday. Kingsford Smith Parade, Cotton Tree. coraltajine.com
Map reference: marcoola to glass house, B6.
Map reference: marcoola to glass house, N6.
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KIND LIVING CAFÉ opened in a prime location in Maleny in April and was a hit with locals from day one. With a menu that’s 100 per cent vegan and gluten-free, and about 50 per cent raw, it’s unlike any café on the coast. Sounds great, but what’s the food like? How does cheesy linguini made with angel hair kelp noodles with a nut cheese sauce sound? Or how about a hot chocolate with raw cacao and homemade nut milk with a huge slice of vegan chocolate mud cake served with nutty cream and berries? With raw soups, beautifully presented salads, coldpressed juices and green smoothies, everything at Kind Living Café is super-fresh, light, reasonably priced and made by locals who are passionate about healthy and cruelty-free food. Open 8am-3pm, 7 days a week. 25 Maple Street, Maleny. 5494 3277. Map reference: main map, J18.
THERE’S ANOTHER NORTH SHORE on the coast and shhh, it’s nowhere near Noosa. Located on the north side of the Maroochy River mouth is a little known spot perfect for families or water sport enthusiasts. With beach on one side and river on the other, surfing, paddle boarding, swimming, kayaking and fishing are possible all from the one point. Furry four-legged friends won’t miss out either – the beach has an off-leash area. Access is via North Shore Road, Twin Waters. Map reference: marcoola to glass house, N5.
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sand sentinels, homegrown heroes words frances frangenheim historical photos courtesy of sunshine coast libraries photos claire plush and surf life saving queensland
Surf lifesaving in Australia has journeyed a long way since the first club was founded at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in 1906.
Perhaps we have William Gocher to thank for our surf swimming culture – he openly defied the law in 1902 when he entered the water at Manly Beach at midday. Imagine! Swimming during daylight hours was illegal, and he was promptly arrested but no charges were laid. From that point, others shared his bravado and the sport of ‘surf bathing’ grew. These days, it’s no longer a crime to swim in daylight hours and it’s not risqué for women and men to ‘bathe’ together. Lifesavers don’t shoot sharks from patrol towers and fundraising efforts are more sophisticated than chook raffles. Surf equipment has advanced from the basic reel, line and belt to rescue boards and tubes, jet skis, inflatable rescue boats and helicopters. And surf lifesaving finally caught up with the times to include women in the 1980s, and has grown from a voluntary service to also become a competitive sport with ironman and ironwoman competitions, inflatable rescue boat championships and state titles to train for. > 16 salt
Alexandra Headland Life Saving team, which won the Cameron Shield for the 1926-1927 season under the Royal Life Saving Society. The shield was the equivalent of the current Queensland championship. saltmagazine.com.au 17
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While so much has changed over Australia’s more than 100-year surf lifesaving history there are many fundamentals that have stayed the same. Australia’s more than 40,000 lifesavers still share a deep sense of mateship, positivity and passion as together they volunteer their time to keep 100 million beach-goers over 35,000 kilometres of Australian coastline safe each year. The red and yellow skullcap, introduced in the 1930s, is still one of the most iconic pieces of headgear despite recent national debate suggesting it’s past its use-by date. And surf clubs remain close-knit community hubs made up of different generations who share a love of the surf, sand and sunshine. Sunshine Coast surf lifesaving clubs have survived many challenges, from World Wars to recessions, lagging membership numbers and escalating insurance costs. Today, the community is thriving with 7670 active lifesavers and 3700 Nippers across 15 active surf life saving clubs from Redcliffe Peninsula in the south to Rainbow Beach in the north. Our lifesavers have much to be proud of. Surf Life Saving Sunshine Coast records show that in the 2010 and 2011 financial year, 1439 lives were saved in rescues and 16,785 preventative actions were taken to stop problems before they arose.
HISTORICA L PEA RL Leslie Berghofer (pictured above), of Dutton Park, wears his Metropolitan Life Saving Club singlet while on patrol at Kings Beach in 1927. The Brisbane based Metropolitan Club patrolled both at Bribie, where they had a clubhouse, and Kings Beach during the holiday seasons. The Caloundra Life Saving and Surfing Club was formed at Mooloolah on January 3, 1928. Mooloolah boys assisted with patrols, camped in tents at Kings Beach and trained on Mooloolah Station. In 1933 the Metropolitan Club transferred from Bribie to Kings Beach, where Metropolitan - Caloundra Life Saving Club was formed. The word surf was added later 18 salt
On a national scale, it is estimated that Australian surf lifesavers have rescued more than 500,000 people in the 80 years since records have been kept, with the number of rescues each season in recent years fluctuating between 8000 and 10,000. Rewind to the early 1900s and it’s clear to see how crucial surf lifesaving was to the Sunshine Coast’s development – put simply, surf tragedies weren’t good for tourism and property sales. Most people of that time didn’t have the skills to swim in calm rivers and creeks, let alone in surf with its invisible rips, deep troughs and dumping waves. Coastal resorts and developers increasingly relied on surf lifesavers to help prevent drownings and increase awareness of surf safety.
Thanks to a State Government grant, Noosa was the first Sunshine Coast town to boast a lifesaving reel, line and belt on its beach in the Easter of 1915. Bush to Beach: A History of Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club, by Robert Longhurst, reports the men who practised the first lifesaving drill on Noosa Beach were F.W. Springfield, J. Betts, J. Fitzgerald, H. Leonard, F. O’Cavanagh and J. Case. Early lifesavers were particularly brave men as they donned the cork belt with the line attached and swam out to sea to collect their patient, risking their own life in the process as the line could snag on a rock and drag them under water. The first cork belts had no way of being removed in an emergency and after some lifesavers tragically died during rescues an easy-release modified version, known as the Ross safety belt, became mandatory in the 1950s. The first club to spring up on the Sunshine Coast and the third in Queensland was the Maroochydore Surf Life Saving Club, which opened in January 1916 with about 15 members. Membership is now 1200 and includes Australia’s leading competitive lifesaver Clint Robinson, who has won 36 Australian Championships and is the club’s head coach. The Mooloolaba Sports and Surf Lifesaving Club was one of the early clubs, formed in 1923. Its club history, also written by Robert Longhurst, captures a charming example of one of the earliest qualifying tests for lifesavers, involving two of the club founders Percy Jakeman and Bill Bell in October 1923. The test involved tricky tasks such as lifting a purse from the bottom of the river, fancy swimming, and undressing on the surface of the water. Tests these days aren’t so creative. All lifesavers must achieve the minimum requirement of a Bronze Medallion Award, covering essential skills such as surf swimming, awareness, rescue training and first aid. This gives members the green light to patrol beaches on
weekends as volunteer surf lifesavers. Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club past president Ron Lane started lifesaving on Noosa’s beaches in 1956 as a boy and achieved his allimportant Bronze Medallion. He went on to train as an instructor and is still a passionate Noosa club life-time member. “I lived in Gympie and in those days most of the members, say 90 per cent, came from Gympie,” Ron recalls of his early days with the club. “They were farmers and timber cutters and bean growers. In the winter months we all played football together … then during the summer months we headed for the beach and joined the surf club. “I used to get rides with one of my mates. Either that or we’d hitchhike. The mateship was incredibly strong and it was such a good time.” Ron and his mates would sleep in the clubhouse of a weekend before hitchhiking home. “We had a dormitory – it was old wire bunks and the doors and windows were hanging off. The clubhouse was a mess. But it was fun actually.” Paul Jones is another long-time lifesaver and past president of the Peregian Beach Surf Life Saving Club. He joined the club when he was eight years old while living in Brisbane and spending weekends at his parents’ holiday home in Caloundra. He returned to live in Peregian in 1989 and rejoined the club after a 20-year break from surf lifesaving. “I’d always been a swimmer and played a lot of water polo but I guess, like everybody, I’d become unfit,” Paul explains of one of the reasons he returned to lifesaving. “It was certainly a worthwhile challenge to redo my Bronze Medallion.” Paul’s two daughters have followed in his salty footsteps. Asked what he loves about being a Peregian club member, Paul says, “The great friendships, healthy lifestyle and doing something for the community”. >
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If youth involvement is a positive sign of a sport’s longevity then surf lifesaving is in safe hands as youth membership grows daily. Children as young as five can join the Nippers, before moving up to the Cadets at age 13, and the Juniors at age 15 to achieve their Bronze Medallion Award. Surf lifesaver Lydia Allen, 20, joined Dicky Beach Surf Life Saving Club at age eight and has spent weekends at the beach ever since. Her parents have joined too. “My parents were living close to the beach at the time and thought it was important that I could look after myself in the water and have the ability to love the surf,” Lydia explains of how she fell into surf lifesaving. Lydia says her greatest achievements have been gaining her Bronze Medallion and winning the Jupiters Summer Surf Girl 2011 competition. She won the coveted competition for her fundraising initiatives, commitment to community education and surf lifesaving knowledge. Over the past two years, Lydia has raised close to $170,000 for her club. Lydia loves the sense of friendship and loyalty at her Dicky Beach club. “Our club is very close and it’s like our second family. Everyone is really supportive of each other and looks out for each other … It’s definitely a family relationship there.” Alex Austin, 27, is another young go-getter who has been involved with Noosa Heads Surf Life Saving Club since age eight. Alex says he loves everything about the ocean and has spent most weekends of his life on the beach. He progressed through the surf lifesaving ranks, first achieving his Bronze Medallion, then becoming an instructor and working part-time as a lifeguard during his university years in Brisbane. These days he coaches the Nippers squad and is a teacher at the local school. 20 salt
No matter your age or fitness level, you can become a surf lifesaver. The Sunshine Coast is home to 15 active surf clubs at Rainbow Beach, Noosa Heads, Sunshine Beach, Peregian Beach, Coolum, Marcoola, Mudjimba, Maroochydore, Alexandra Headland, Mooloolaba, Kawana Waters, Dicky Beach, Metropolitan Caloundra, Bribie Island and Redcliffe Peninsula. For more information and to join a club near you, visit the Surf Life Saving website at sls.com.au
Support those who look after others Australia’s lifesaving service relies on community donations to buy rescue equipment, train lifesavers and run community education programs to save lives on our beaches. Donate today at sls.com.au or by phoning 1800 642 925. A full calendar of carnivals can be found at lifesaving.com.au/surfsports
He recalls his first rescue was at age 15 before he had achieved his Bronze Medallion. Alex was training at the Noosa River mouth when he heard screams for help. He swam out through treacherous surf to find an exhausted man clinging to a surf board, gasping for breath. Alex managed to transfer him onto his own board and paddle him safely to shore. “I was quite freaked out – I didn’t understand what was going on,” Alex recalls. “That was an eye-opening experience as my first rescue and being on my own … It was a pretty big wake-up call to the reality of how quickly dangerous situations can happen.” Although times and processes have changed, the need to keep our beaches safe remains the same. Surf lifesavers are, and always have been, the spring and summertime heroes of the Sunshine Coast community.
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Caloundra Music Festival
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explore dream Melbourne Cup lunch at Thomas Corner Eatery
october Hans Christian Andersen children’s classic series The plays of Hans Christian Andersen – the man responsible for Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid and The Emperor’s New Clothes – will be brought to life by the Eumundi Live Theatre, to the delight of parents and children alike. when October 1 at 4pm and October 2 at 11am and 3pm where The Independent Theatre, Corner of Memorial Drive and Pacey Street, Eumundi cost $12 eumundilivetheatre.com
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Great Strides Walkathon The Great Strides Walkathon is hitting the pavements throughout Queensland for another year. All funds raised are dedicated to providing emotional and practical support to people living with cystic fibrosis. Tie a bow in your shoelaces and prepare to pound the pavement to raise funds for the most common life-threatening recessive genetic condition affecting Australian children. when October 16 where Various locations across the Sunshine Coast cost Free greatstrides.com.au
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Melbourne Cup Sunshine Coast Turf Club’s Corbould Park is one of the finest racecourses in the country and delivers Melbourne Cup celebrations with a bang. A not-to-be-missed event on any social calendar, Melbourne Cup Day will feature live racing, fashions on the field, live performances and a big screen TV on the course. when November 1 where Corbould Park, 170 Pierce Avenue, Caloundra cost Prices start at $15 sctc.com.au
Melbourne Cup Day lunch at Noosa Get into the racing spirit and celebrate the Melbourne Cup. Fun, stylish, contemporary, great views, delicious food, great company, load of sweeps, large screen plasma and all the usual celebrations with a few surprises. Includes a set course menu and cocktail/ bubbles or beer on arrival. Bookings are essential. when November 1 where Thomas Corner Eatery, 1/201 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville cost $69 per person thomascorner.com.au
Photographic workshop
Melbourne Cup Day lunch at Maleny
Talented landscape photographers Nick Rains and Christian Fletcher, who have both featured on the cover of salt magazine, will be holding an intensive two-day photo workshop on Lake Weyba. If you’re an aspiring photographer this workshop is a must. when Introductory drinks October 21, workshop October 22 to 23 where Eumarella Shores, Lake Weyba cost $995 nickrains.com
Celebrate Melbourne cup in style overlooking the majestic Glass House Mountains while watching the race that stops the nation on the big screen. Price includes canapé platter to share, main course and dessert plus two bottles of bubbly per table. when November 1 where Tiffany’s Maleny, 409 Mountain View Road, Maleny cost $95 per head. Bookings essential weddingsattiffanys.com.au
Julius Caesar
Noosa Triathlon Multi Sport Festival
Plop! By Windmill Theatre
One of Australia’s best theatre companies, Bell Shakespeare, turns this momentous piece of Roman history into a sharp reflection of modern-day backroom politics. when October 8 where The Events Centre, 20 Minchinton Street, Caloundra cost Prices start at $14 theeventscentre.com
The slogan ‘Swim, Bike, Run, PARTY!’ says it all. This festival is for sporting participants and spectators alike, mixing sport and entertainment with sun, sea and surf. The event consists of various family, social and sporting activities for all ages and abilities. when October 26 to 30 where Various locations across Noosa cost Prices vary usmevents.com.au
Caloundra Music Festival The Caloundra Music Festival is set to sparkle again, with a more impressive line up than ever. Acts include Empire of the Sun, Missy Higgins, Icehouse and Eskimo Joe. Spring, sun and the best live music in the air – it doesn’t get better than this. when October 7 to 9 where Kings Beach, Caloundra cost Prices vary caloundramusicfestival.com
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Especially crafted for tiny tots, this is a show full of invention and magic. Two tiny rabbits get a fright from an apple falling from above, and the anticipation of it happening again and again leads to an interactive, action-packed adventure. when November 12 where The Events Centre, 20 Minchinton Street, Caloundra cost Prices start at $12 theeventscentre.com
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Golden Days Festival This event is set to become one of the hottest coastal festivals in Australia with its idyllic Sunshine Coast location and top line entertainment. The festival features music, high-level surfing competitions, larger than life kites on the beach, sand sculpting and outdoor cinema. when November 19 to 20 where Coolum Beach cost Prices vary goldendaysfestival.com
Ride Easy Program Become a better horse rider, trainer and horse handler in five days with Equathon’s riding program. Participants will be taught new skills and gain a wealth of knowledge under the watchful eye of triple Olympian Alex Watson. The program is suitable for riders over 10 years with any level of experience. when November 28 to December 2 where Equathon, Noosa North Shore Equestrian Centre, Beach Road, Noosa North Shore cost $750 equathon.com.au
december Carols on Kings Bring a picnic basket for this traditional Christmas celebration held under the stars at Kings Beach. The evening focuses on fun for the whole family with roving entertainment for the kids and culminates in a dazzling fireworks display. when December 16 where Kings Beach Amphitheatre, Caloundra cost Free sunshinecoastcouncilevents.com
Woodford Folk Festival The Woodford Folk Festival is an event of international standing with an exciting program of more than 2000 performers over 22 performance venues. The festival includes concerts, street theatre, writers’ panels, a film festival, comedy sessions, children’s art festival and environmental program. Also incorporating The Dreaming Festival for the first time, the event concludes with a spectacular not-to-be-missed fire event. when December 27 to January 1 where Woodfordia, Woodrow Road, Woodford cost Prices vary woodfordfolkfestival.com
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When Witta artist Cezary Stulgis ventured to Poland to discover his roots, it was only meant to be a short trip. Three years later he graduated from Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, the oldest and most prestigious artistic university in Poland, with a Masters in sculpture and a wealth of traditional sculpting techniques and knowledge. “The academy was taking applications for the next year,” he recalls of the day he applied to attend the school. “Everyone was sitting in the hallway with plaster heads and life drawings and my portfolio was full of kinetic sculpture and graffiti.” Despite his doubts, the professors liked what they saw and offered Cezary a place at the esteemed university. “I thought what better way to get to know my culture than to participate in it and study – to be there not just as a tourist but get involved,” he says. Born in Poland in 1972 in the northeastern city of Bialystok, Cezary moved to Australia with his family when he was eleven years old. In search of a better life and fuelled by a desire to escape communism, the move led the young family to Brisbane. It was here that Cezary was raised and began to immerse himself in street art and graffiti. After completing high school, he took his love of art one step further and undertook a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology. The degree saw him dive into the world of sculpture but at the end he was left craving something more.
“I wanted to experience something different with art,” he says. He was drawn to his homeland, in particular the old-world charm of Krakow. “It had a big influence on my art,” he says of the time spent furthering his studies in the creative capital of Poland. “It was practical and intuitive and more about learning old, traditional skills. There were not many tools and no computers. It was kind of like going back in time.” Sculpture, lettering, woodcarving and life drawing were just some of the subjects covered during his postgraduate degree. “I guess they teach you to look,” he says. “You can look but you might not see. They teach you to really observe and think not just about what you’re seeing but what is holding it up, what’s really going on in terms of structure. “And they teach you not to be so precious about art.” Precious is not a word that comes to mind when coming face to face with Cezary’s recent work. Packs of dogs made out of mixed materials, a three-metre birdman carved from wood, centaur-like beings made from resin and steel skull heads are just some of the creatures that have been brought to life by the craftsman’s hands. He makes a conscious effort to work with found materials, believing that doing so forces him to stretch his creative boundaries. >
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“I like being limited in what I have. The imagination comes out more,” he says. After completing his Masters in Poland, Cezary returned to Brisbane and scattered his talents across several areas including event theming, set design, sculpting and patternmaking. Tired of the lack of space he had to create at his Brisbane home, he packed his bags and moved to the Sunshine Coast hinterland about three years ago. The sprawling property he now shares with his wife Anna and their two daughters overlooks the Conondale range. Cezary says that the remoteness of the location has had a positive affect on his work. “I think I have more of a clear vision of what I am doing. I am not so influenced by what other artists are doing around me,” he says. Wandering around his purpose-built workshop, he is surrounded by tools, complete and unfinished works, paintings and shelves of offcuts waiting patiently to be used. His sculptures have been displayed in countless exhibitions, purchased for private collections and stand permanently on several Brisbane streets including Ann Street and Queen Street. The Guardian 26 salt
He has been commissioned by councils, churches and design consultancies, and assisted in fitting out the sublime Cloudland in Fortitude Valley.
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Not one to be confined by a single art form Cezary also dedicates time to painting, finding that often it spurs ideas for future sculptures. “Some of my sculptures are very physical so it’s nice to just pick up a brush and play around with paints,” he says. “Playing around” however is somewhat of a modest understatement. Cezary made a splash onto the local art scene last year when one of his paintings was selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. The urban influence that is seen in his edgy sculptures is also reflected in his artworks. While he and Anna talk about returning to Poland with their daughters in the future, for now they are basking in the freedom and simple luxuries that their hinterland home has given them – home-grown vegetables and fresh eggs are a constant source of delight. Wherever they go, Cezary’s love of creating unusual forms through traditional techniques is one thing that will travel with them. “Sculpture is the most challenging,” he says when comparing his artistic talents. “To me, it is the ultimate way of recording a thought, an idea, or a period.” Cezary Stulgis’ solo exhibition will run from October 28 at Shooting Gallery, 105 Bowen Street, Spring Hill. cezarystulgis.com saltmagazine.com.au 27
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perfect pitch, sublime setting word s lei g h r o bs h aw pho t o s a n a s t a s i a ka r i o f y l l i d i s
A cascade of heavenly notes and chords spills from deep inside the Steinway grand piano, filling every corner of the octagonal performance room with a calibre of sound usually only found in the concert halls of major cities. But this is not New York, London or Paris – it’s Montville. Ukraine-born Alexey Yemtsov is performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and the audience is spellbound. Some sip glasses of champagne as they listen, sitting close enough to see Alexey’s fingers dancing across the keyboard. Others settle back into their seats with eyes closed, allowing the sublime music and afternoon sunlight to wash over them. After an interval, where sandwiches, scones with jam and cream and tea are served on the deck, the second session begins. Alexey pays homage to Beethoven and Chopin, finishing with a piece 28 salt
few others in the world play — Hungarian Rhapsody No.13, by Liszt-Volodos. As he plays the final notes of this explosive piece, the audience is compelled to jump to its feet and cheer in a standing ovation. The venue is Lucas Parklands, on Narrows Road near Baroon Pocket Dam, a private residence surrounded by twelve hectares of forest, featuring a state-of-the-art concert space that attracts world-class musicians to the hinterland to perform several times a year. The pièce de résistance is a gleaming flame mahogany piano from Steinway’s Emerald series. This is the last Steinway built with ivory keys and is an invaluable instrument. A raindrop-shaped crystal chandelier sparkles high above the Steinway and a second Kawai piano, both positioned inside concentric circles of seats that accommodate 150 people. Sub-tropical rainforest as grand as the pianos provides a stunning natural backdrop to the room. Its double-glazed windows stretch from floor to ceiling to do the view justice. The walls are constructed of acoustic plaster and the floor is two centimetre premium hardwood on two centimetre marine ply, which creates reverberation in the room like a drum.
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Experience the exhilaration It goes without saying that no expense has been spared in creating a concert space with such superb acoustics and aesthetic quality which, when combined with the beautiful parkland setting, is the only venue like it in Australia, if not the world. “If you build it, they will come – I like that phrase,” says Ian Lucas, a pianist who ceased studying at the Conservatorium of Music in Hobart as a young man to become a pilot. When he turned 50 he realised he hadn’t played piano in 25 years, and began to question his values.
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Ian and his wife Lee decided to leave Brisbane for Montville in 2008 to pursue a lifestyle closer to nature and more conducive to the development of their children’s musical aspirations – their 15-year-old twins Meg and Sam are also accomplished musicians. Sam plays cello and has recorded a CD at Lucas Parklands, and Meg plays violin and piano. Both attend the Griffith University Young Conservatorium every Saturday and play various instruments in the Sunshine Coast Grammar School’s concert band and string ensemble. With musical genes like these, a music space was definitely on the agenda for the Lucas family, but they hadn’t initially >
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planned on building such an extravagant venue. The first room they built was an extension to their house that seated 80 people, but when 148 attended the first concert and spilled out of the room and onto the grass, it was time for an upgrade. They began building the larger room in October 2009 and held the first concert there on February 28 last year: ‘Champagne and Chopin’ to celebrate Chopin’s birthday. They’ve hosted 35 concerts, their aim being to host the best of the classics by the best artists they can find, and to promote young Australian musicians. “We’ve got a hit list of major works that you would usually have to travel to Brisbane or Sydney for,” says Ian. “The ‘Rach 3’ piano concerto featured in the movie Shine is a monstrously difficult piece of music, almost like running a marathon, and we’re presenting it in October. We source people who can perform these works – and they don’t grow on trees!” “When we purchased the Steinway piano we didn’t realise it would become one of the reasons people would want to play here, because it’s a world-class piano,” Ian says. “Most concert halls in Australia might build a $10,000,000 hall and put a $20,000 piano in it. We went the other way and opted for a small room and an instrument of the highest quality. “The idea was to give young musicians of high standard a place to perform. We were the first private home and venue to host winners from the Sydney International Piano Competition. We’ve had the 2008 first, second and third prize winners, which were a real privilege for us and hosted six of the 36 finalists. “It’s held every four years and next year we’ve asked for the People’s Choice Winner and the highest placed Australian to play here. It’s a deliberate engagement with Australian musicians.” Lee is the primary organiser of the Lucas Parklands events and according to Ian, “works tirelessly”. Each concert is a family affair, with Lee on the door, Ian and Sam organising the parking and Meg as the mistress of ceremonies. “I always put a handwritten note in when I send tickets to people,” Lee says. “I think that’s why we get such a good response. We like the personal approach.” “We’ve always had an open home policy regarding our children’s 30 salt
friends, our friends and anyone interested in music who comes here. That’s how we like to run the concerts – people feel like they’re coming home. It’s not like you just go to the concert and then leave. When we have a wine bar we invite the Maleny Lions Club or the Blackall Range Care Cottage to run it and take the proceeds. It gets the local community involved.” In keeping with their desire to encourage young Australian classical musicians, the Lucas family is planning to host a music competition for talented students up to Year 12 in the near future. They would welcome an appropriate sponsor to engage a notable artist to adjudicate the competition and therefore attract highquality students. They also hope to increase the number of concerts held each year. When asked what has been the most significant event at Lucas Parklands, both Ian and Lee agree it was the Bob Irwin wildlife fundraiser held last year. “It was the anniversary of Steve Irwin’s death,” says Ian. “Bob chose to spend his day here and talk to the audience about environmental conservation. [French pianist] Pascal Rogè, his wife Ami and Leigh Paine, a violinist from Cairns, performed and ABC’s Australian Story filmed the event. “Bob Irwin made us all sit back in our seats and told us to take care of our own backyard. He’d never been to a classical concert before and he sat in the front row. It was an extremely emotional day for him and he could have chosen to do anything else on that particular day.” By bringing such a high standard of music to the hinterland community and presenting it in such beautiful, natural surroundings, the Lucas family is doing an outstanding job of looking after their own backyard. Oliver She performs “The Rach 3” – The Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 on October 2 at 3pm. Australia’s Queen of Jazz Clare Hansson and her Jazz Band will celebrate Christmas on November 19 at sunset. For bookings contact Lee on 5478 5667 or lucasparklands.com For EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au for more photos of Lucas Parklands.
pageturners For relaxation, stimulation and pure escapism, nothing beats losing yourself in a good book. salt reviews five of the best latest releases. W hen We H ave Wings
A ll the P retty H earses
Claire Corbett | Allen & Unwin | $32.99
Mary Daheim | HarperCollins | $32.99
Flight becomes possible, but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs and gene manipulation to become fliers. But Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings.
Hillside Manor hostess and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn finds there is no “fun” in “fund-raiser” when she donates an overnight stay at her B&B for the parish school’s annual auction.
The price is higher than she could have imagined and the difficulties she faces are unforeseen. This imaginative novel captures the exhilaration and terror of flight while exploring the limits of all that is involved in self-transformation. It is a compelling read that is both emotionally and intellectually stimulating. This book will make readers dream about flight and is sure to become a book club favourite, with online notes available. salt has THREE copies of When We Have Wings to give away. For your chance to win, visit the WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au
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The pricey winning bid goes to the picky Paine family. Dinner is included – if Judith can sort through the endless allergies and aversions of the painful Paines. The last thing she needs is a guest who checks out permanently and a husband whose gun was used in a murder. This is the twenty-sixth instalment of the hilarious, New York Timesbestselling “Cozy” mystery series and this one is as fresh and funny as the first.
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Tahn Scoon, photography by Anastasia Kariofyllidis | New Holland | $45
Rye Barcott | Bloomsbury | $29.99
Live with a little more style and panache with the help of this beautiful book on luscious interiors and how-to projects. Serving as inspiration, it also promises to make readers want to live more beautifully. Full of practical information on how to create stunning aesthetic effects in a home, it shows that beautiful residences are not all for show, but can be imminently liveable. Projects include milky terracotta pots, vintage picture frames, kitchen chairs, ’80s-style desk, silk throws and linen bedheads. With photography by salt’s own Anastasia Kariofyllidis, this is a book to treasure. salt has TWO copies of this musthave book to give away. To enter, head online and visit the WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au
Non-fiction is often better than fiction, and when the story is beautifully told, it can do nothing but captivate. So it is with this autobiography of a young man who spent several months living in Africa’s largest slum to better understand ethnic violence and poverty. Knowing he was going into war zones as a Marine after college, Rye learnt Swahili, asked questions and listened. He also made friends with a widowed nurse, and helped her start a vegetable stall. Within a year the nurse had used the funds to set up a health clinic. Rye was involved in war, community building and peacekeeping – all at the same time. He artfully shows that these can coexist, and that leadership is the same, no matter where in the world a person is.
Daddies A re For Wild Things Catriona Hoy, illustrated by Mal Webster Hachette Children’s | $16.95
Dads are great fun in all sorts of ways. They do some wild things like pillowpunching and tickling, playing pirates and walking the plank. They also don’t mind getting wet, or walking through the mud and sitting on the ground. And for all their action-loving, dads are also great for cuddles and falling asleep. This picture book by an Australian author and illustrator celebrates fathers, their role and the things kids love about them most. It is a great book to share with young book lovers, particularly action-loving little boys. salt has FIVE copies of this children’s book to give away. To enter for your kids, jump over to the WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au
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The north coast approach to Peregian Beach from Noosa is one of those dreamy Sunday drives you want to take slowly – preferably in a convertible, while wearing a silk scarf and with a loved one nestled beside you. Hugging the coastline, the road weaves and dips through rugged coastal bush land, passing the pint-sized communities of Sunshine Beach, Sunrise Beach and Marcus Beach before arriving in Peregian. Today the sun has free reign of the sky and the ocean is sparkling with an electric intensity. I can see the shoreline stretch – like a golden sandpaved highway – for thirty kilometres south to Mooloolaba. I park in Heron Street, the town’s main entry point off David Low Way, and stroll around the urban centre, soaking up the sun and intermittent sea breeze. Peregian Beach always fills me with a sense of shoppers’ optimism. The eateries and boutiques are known for being independent, home grown and creative, and the overwhelming village vibe is friendly and intimate. For a petite shopping precinct there is great diversity, including a juice bar, seafood bistro, baby and kidswear boutique, organic day spa, gelateria, French patisserie, interior design and French fabrics store, Chinese tea house and independent bookstore. Today, many of the retailers have dragged tempting items for sale outside onto the pavement. Wispy lavender plants, straw woven baskets and candy-striped deck chairs bask in the morning sun. Pedestrians rule here as the open-air Village Square, boardwalk stores, surf club, park and beachfront are all within a few steps of each other. A steady stream of beachgoers, surfers, skateboarders, shoppers, surf lifesavers, tradies, workers in business suits and local residents filter through the town but it doesn’t feel hectic. The population of 3000 people must swell with day-trippers, but the relaxed vibe is clearly infectious. A handful of stores and cafés open onto the Village Square’s central manicured lawn, peppered with casuarina, cotton and pandanus trees. It hosts community events, like movie nights, and was the original site for the famous Peregian Originals’ live music concerts, which are now held in front of the surf club in Peregian Park on the first and third Sundays of every month. >
The Village Square has always been a community hub. It was once the site of the town swimming pool, which opened in 1964 as one of Peregian’s first public facilities. Peregian resident and business owner Nicole Carter used to swim in the Village Square pool as a little girl. She tells me she moved to Peregian in 2002 but her grandparents were one of the first – number six, Nicole believes – to build a home in Peregian in the early ’60s. Nicole has fond memories of her childhood holidays here. “I remember walking on Peregian Beach with Grandma and there was never anyone around – it was pristine and beautiful. But it’s still like that,” Nicole says. Like many residents, Nicole is an active community member. She defines Peregian as “having a country
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town mentality” where everyone is friendly and aware of the environment. Along with her 15-year-old daughter, she volunteers as a surf lifesaver with the Peregian Beach Surf Life Saving Club. From September to May, the family spends two out of three weekends patrolling the beach. Peregian Beach’s beachfront is free of development, which keeps it pristine and makes it feel like a secret surf break, even though the secret is long shared. It’s nice to know Peregian will always be this way because it is hemmed by green space. Its southern boundary is protected by Peregian Environment Park with its wallum flats and wildflowers that bloom in spring, while Noosa National Park and Lake Weyba National Park nudge it from the north and west. >
Awesome activities • Live music: Peregian Originals’ live music concerts are held straight after the markets on the first and third Sundays of every month, offering all original music by upcoming and established local and national bands. The event has also sprouted the Nambour Originals at Quota Park, Nambour on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. • Scale a mountain: Mount Emu boasts some of the most spectacular panoramic views of Peregian Beach and beyond. At only 72 metres high, it’s easy to climb without breaking much of a sweat. Access is off David Low Way from Havana Road. • Spot a whale: Thousands of humpback whales migrate south past Peregian Beach every September and October. You can soak up this awe-inspiring phenomenon by climbing Mount Emu for a panoramic view or just hanging out on Peregian Beach to spot them from shore. • Pick a park: Peregian is surrounded by national parks and wildlife areas including Lake Weyba National Park, Lake Weyba and the Noosa National Park. One of the Noosa National Park walks in the Peregian section is a threekilometre track that guides you along sandy paths and boardwalks, over dunes, along unpatrolled beachfront and past native casuarina and banksia trees.
Peregian is also an environmental haven for humpback whales. About 15,000 whales migrate south to their summer feeding grounds in Antarctica in September and October each year. Three thousand of the creatures pass within ten kilometres of Peregian Beach – you can spot them from shore or climb nearby Mount Emu for a better view. University of Queensland researcher Dr Michael Noad grew up spending his weekends and holidays at Peregian Beach. His parents have retired here, and his father, John, is part of an international research team that Michael brings to Peregian each year to study the impacts of undersea oil and gas exploration methods on migrating whales. Peregian’s vast natural beauty and biodiversity helps explain why its residents have a reputation for being passionate greenies – their gratitude to live amidst a vital green zone must spur them to protect and nurture, grow and cherish their surroundings together. Look closely and you’ll find many signs of Peregian’s community eco spirit: the town is a plastic bag-free zone, the Veggie Village community gardens are thriving, and many locals plant and protect wildlife corridors in their neighbourhoods (I hear Peregian’s Spoonbill Street has gained notoriety as the greenest street in Queensland). >
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Art teacher and ceramicist Laura Ellis is another active resident who agrees environment is front-ofmind for locals. I ask Laura how she defines Peregian Beach’s community focus and she reflects it must be about gratitude to live in such a beautiful place. “Everyone who has chosen to live or work or recreate in Peregian is ultimately somehow touched by or attracted to its inherent natural beauty and peaceful atmosphere,” Laura says. Laura knows Peregian Beach better than most; she was the first resident born in Peregian in 1966. Laura has many fond memories of growing up here in the ’60s and ’70s. “We walked on the beach, rode our push bikes, played tennis, had bonfires in the foreshore park, caught yabbies, discovered middens,” Laura says. Peregian Beach Community House president Lorraine Wood says Peregian also works so well as a community because its residents are friendly and connected. The Community House opened in >
Health hub • If you’re looking for some pamper and preen time while visiting Peregian Beach, book an appointment at Heart of Beauty (5448 1874) on the Village Square. Owner Lauren Drysdale has oodles of beauty experience and incorporates esteemed French skincare products by Guinot into her beauty treatments. Whether it’s waxing, manicure, pedicure or a facial, the Heart of Beauty has your beauty needs ticked. • If your body is letting you down it’s well worth booking an appointment at Circle Wellness Clinic (5471 2201) on the David Low Way in Peregian. It’s a holistic, health hub offering an array of services from counselling, kinesiology, naturopathy, acupuncture, massage, hypnosis and beauty therapy. The talented practitioners at Circle Wellness Clinic have a wealth of experience and can assist you on a physical, emotional and mental level. Meet two of the health professionals that consult at Circle Wellness Clinic: Naturopath Yolanda Falivene can help those who suffer from allergies, infections or food intolerances by using a proven therapy that doesn’t involve drugs. This particular treatment is Europe’s leading allergy therapy where after treatment more than 80 per cent of people with food allergies can eat the food again, symptom free. Peregian Beach local Jules O’Neill will be able to transform your life by teaching you how to listen to your body and its energy levels through Body Consciousness. With a growing list of people praising her results, she’s been the impetus for life changing moments for people nationwide. Head to her website for more information: bodyconsciousness.com.au For women who need help untapping their potential it would be well worth booking into the Women’s Wisdom two-day workshop, orchestrated by Jules O’Neill, it is scheduled for November 5 and 6 and costs $550. For more information about this much-anticipated workshop visit womenswisdom.com.au
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Retail roaming • The Romantic (5471 3235) is a sassy shop that has an eclectic bounty of goodies that are loved by all. Order a coffee from owner Margot and browse the savvy offerings from Mud ceramics, Perfect Potion beauty products to funky shoes and one-off fashion pieces. You’re guaranteed to fall in love with this new kid on the Peregian block. • For the best in seasonal fashion, including exclusive fashion labels like Sao Paulo and Dolce Vita, visit High Tide Mark (5448 3044) for some of the best fashion offerings for both men and women. Both owner Glen and manager Jan have an acute eye for fashion and can provide you with fashion styling advice. • Gift giving for the home or yourself? Take some time out to linger in Finders & Keepers (5448 3830), a bespoke homewares boutique that has a collection of interesting adornments, trinkets and likeables from funky jewellery, signature lamps and beautiful décor. But be warned – you won’t be able to resist the urge to purchase something for your home, yourself or a friend. • Fred & Ginger (5448 3422) is an edgy fashion boutique with its finger on the pulse in terms of latest fashion trends with wellknown labels hailing from Sydney, Melbourne, Europe, Canada and home grown as well. As the boutique’s name suggests both men and women are catered for in this street-side boutique. • Whitebeach Home and Living (5448 1320) encapsulates the coastal way of life with its diverse range of furniture, homewares, fashion, locally made art and fabrics on display. Lovers of this lifestyle emporium particularly adore the high quality European limed oak furniture, its eco-friendly fabrics, hand-made ceramics and individually designed jewellery. With the honed eye of owner Robyn Johnston who is an interior designer you’ll be glad that salt pointed you in the direction of Whitebeach. 42 salt
April last year in the modern development on David Low Way and from day one residents have flocked to take part in all sorts of new hobbies, including tai chi, yoga, meditation, cooking classes, eco talks, knitting groups and youth drama classes. “I’m amazed at how much of the community have been involved in the house,” Lorraine says. “It’s the little things, like a few of us were in the garden pulling up weeds one Saturday morning. Well, there were people who were walking past with their dogs who stopped to give us a hand. There were a couple of guys who drove past and then stopped and said ‘We’ve got a spare hour. We can help’. And to me, that was fantastic.” A few metres from Community House is the Veggie Village community gardens – another shining example of community in action. Its youngest member is two years old and its most senior is 78. There are 45 garden beds to nurture and everyone shares a passion for growing organic food. Veggie Village president Andrew Maitland is excited to share the latest news of the council’s ecoBiz program where Veggie Village and 16 other businesses have committed to reduce their carbon footprint. One commitment involves five local cafés bringing their coffee grounds, vegetable and fruit scraps to the Veggie Village daily to be turned into compost to nourish the garden beds. Andrew sums up the program and Peregian nicely when he says, “It’s community thinking together and working together to minimise our footprints”. >
Feed i n g fr e n zy • There’s nothing quite like French delicacies – whether it’s savouring a croissant, éclair or gateaux, the French over achieve in this department. You’ll be pleased to know that Peregian Beach has its own petite French patisserie known as Le Bon Delice (5471 2200) and has executive Jean Jacques Le Faou and an award winning team at the helm. Make a beeline for this patisserie; bathe in spring sunshine while sampling the French fare. • Wahoo Seafood Restaurant and Takeaway (5448 1491) is the local hot spot for the quintessential fish and chips on the Sunshine Coast. Perched on the edge of the Peregian Village Square, Wahoo has been indulging the needy taste buds of visitors and locals for more than ten years. The menu is based around Queensland seafood with a contemporary European influence. If you’re stopping for lunch, salt recommends perching under the sprawling Pandanus tree and ordering the peppered tuna nicoisi featuring local tuna, olives, egg, potato and green beans. Hom e ward B oun d • It’s not uncommon after a visit to Peregian Beach for visitors to fall in love with this seaside town with its village vibe, and decide to call it home. This is where the coastal community of Peregian Springs (1800 753 799) comes to mind: a suburb that is only five minutes from the beach and the trendy village of Peregian Beach, offering the laid back lifestyle without the price tag.
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“Everyone who has chosen to live or work or recreate in Peregian is ultimately somehow touched by or attracted to its inherent natural beauty and peaceful atmosphere.” But you don’t have to have grown up or even reside in Peregian to feel part of its community. Melbournebased retiree Cliff Lowerson, aged 91, has visited Peregian Beach for three months each year since he retired in 1979. Cliff and his wife Iris would escape the Melbourne winters to enjoy Peregian’s sunshine, which instantly cured Iris’s chilblains. “When we arrived in Peregian we fell in love with it because in those days it was more or less a hamlet compared to what it is now. The beaches were beautiful to walk on, the bird life was fantastic and the people were friendly,” Cliff recalls, later revealing he and Iris used to hike the 26-kilometre round trip from Peregian to Noosa Heads and have a picnic lunch overlooking the ocean at Noosa National Park’s headland. Sadly, Iris passed away two years ago. Cliff still returns annually to Peregian; he has so many happy memories here. He still loves to walk on the beach, visit the local church, and dine at the surf club. “Things have changed a little of course, but I still enjoy coming here mostly for the weather and the people – it’s like paradise,” he says.
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chef carves his own path wo rd s lin da r e ad phot o s an as t as i a k ar i o f yl l i d i s
Owner Tony Thompson with his charming blue cattle dog Bart.
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Slicing carcasses at the meatworks is not necessarily a pre-requisite for becoming a successful chef. Chocolate and Turkish delight fondant with orange ice-cream and glazed oranges.
It does, however, give you a distinct advantage in the knife skills department. Especially if you do it for six years, like Tony Lauriston, head chef and co-owner of Harry’s Restaurant on Buderim did.
It may have also been in his genes – his father was a professional butcher with his own butcher shop for 17 years. Tony would spend time at the shop as a child, because his father was always there. “I had a good knowledge of the cuts of meat,” he says.
Needless to say, Tony is very, very handy with a knife – which, in a chef’s long repertoire of skills, is one of the most crucial.
Tony, now 40, developed a love for cooking at a young age, when his parents were both at work and he would get home first from his job.
Coming to the profession at the ‘late’ age of 26, Tony thought he may be too old to be taken on as an apprentice. Actually, his six years at the meatworks proved to be a benefit which gave his career a big kick start. “I was pretty much ready to go with a knife,” says Tony. “Which is a lot of a chef’s job – learning to keep your knife sharp. It makes your job so much easier. So I had that head start. Plus I had a bit of age on my side.”
“It sort of came out of necessity,” he says. “I’d start very early at the meatworks and I’d get home first and I’d get the dinner ready. I loved cooking so much, and I saw no future for me at the meatworks. Someone said ‘why don’t you try to be a chef?’” Once the seed was planted, Tony quickly found his niche. Not only did he gain an apprenticeship at Two Small Rooms, one of Brisbane’s most celebrated fine dining restaurants, he excelled in his new profession, winning the prestigious TAFE Young Chef of the Year Award in his final year of study. >
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“Keeping it simple, not working the food too much.�
Duck and pork terrine with pistachios, pickled rhubarb, apple and black pepper jam and croutons.
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Ten years ago, his love of surfing brought him and his wife to the Sunshine Coast, where he worked in some of the region’s best restaurants before seizing the opportunity to buy Harry’s, in partnership with his old friend and colleague, maitre d’ Frank Flynn, four years ago.
and Turkish delight pudding with orange ice-cream and glazed orange.
Harry’s is only a stone’s throw from the thriving town of Buderim, but its secluded setting in the Buderim Forest Park makes it seem much further. Adding to the charm of the setting is the building itself, which is one of Buderim’s earliest homes, built by carpenter Harry Board in 1892. It was moved to its present setting in 1990 and beautifully restored, being reborn as a fine dining restaurant.
“A lot of chefs are saying it now about the produce – getting the best produce and doing as little with it to put on the plate as possible. Keeping it simple, not working the food too much. That’s pretty much where I’m coming from.
Seating up to 80, the restaurant has a cosy inside room with original hoop pine floorboards and fireplace, and tables spread around the double verandah which overlooks a large clearing surrounded by forest. Tony describes the menu style as “modern bistro”, which has more than a twist of classical European inspiration. This is not surprising, given his classical training. Tony’s Italian dishes are particularly popular, which he finds slightly amusing. “I wouldn’t have said my food is particularly Italian influenced, but my risottos and gnocchi are the best things I make,” he says. “Everyone seems to love them so much.” Some of the delights on offer include an entree of duck and pork terrine with pistachios, apple and watercress salad, apple and black pepper jam and croutons; a main of pan roasted Atlantic salmon with a spiced potato crust; and a dessert of soft-centred chocolate
The menu is changed seasonally, and reflects the ever growing trend of contemporary cuisine to keep things as simple and fresh as possible, which Tony applauds.
“And trying to source cheaper produce, to make food affordable for people. We might try and use lesser cuts and create better things with the meat or poultry, but still get the best fruit and vegetables.” Tony works with a small team of two other chefs and two schoolbased apprentices, and is entirely hands-on in the kitchen. But his precious days off are spent with his wife and two young children, riding bikes, skating and gardening. And there is no chance of Tony’s knife skills getting rusty, as he does the cooking when he’s home too – although not, he says, as much as his wife would like. “Let’s just say my wife doesn’t like to cook. I don’t know why. I try not to tell her how to do it, it’s just advice. But she doesn’t seem to take my advice very well!” Harry’s on Buderim, Harry’s Lane (off Lindsay Road) Buderim. 5445 6661. harrysonbuderim.com.au FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au to see more photos of Harry’s on Buderim.
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cheese, buffaloes – and all that jazz w o rd s lin da r e ad p h o to ka t e j o h ns
When a successful jazz musician with a lifelong love of cheese decided to team up with a herd of buffaloes, something exciting was bound to happen. And it did – to which anyone who has tasted the divine cheeses produced by the Cedar Street Cheeserie will attest. Trevor Hart, well-known composer, band leader and jazz performer, decided to start his own cheeserie three years ago because he wanted a “challenge” and because he had always loved eating cheese. But Trevor’s cheeserie in the Sunshine Coast hinterland has one very creative point of difference – he is one of just three cheesemakers in Australia who produces cheese using only buffalo milk; the other two are in Cairns and Victoria. A lifetime’s creative work stood Trevor in good stead when it came to learning the art of cheesemaking. He was inspired by a visit to a cheese shop in London, which he learnt was the birthplace of farmstead cheese (cheese which is made on a farm with milk produced on that farm).
bocconcini, haloumi, and burrata cheeses, using buffalo milk which he collects three times a week from a local farm. He works alone, and does everything by hand. “Everything’s local, everything’s fresh,” he explains. The burrata, he promises, is “insanely good”. In the style of all great composers, Trevor has even invented a new cheese – named, of course, after a tune by John Coltrane, the famous jazz saxophonist. “A Love Supreme” is described by Trevor as “a really, really fresh cheese, and the taste changes in your mouth”. “I had some people from Iran taste it and tell me this was the cheese they got in the villages. And I had a woman who was from Poland, and she tasted it and said it took her back to her childhood. So it’s like the old style cheeses.” Watching Trevor at work, it seems as if he has been doing it all his life. He exudes creative passion and a deep dedication to the art of creating exceptional cheeses. Timing is crucial as he checks the acidity and temperatures of milk at various stages of development in big silver bowls. A bowl of what looks like pure white jelly is sliced into cubes with a knife. Trevor knows it’s ready, he says, because of the way the light is reflecting off its surface.
“I needed a great challenge,” says Trevor, “and this was something I knew nothing about. I’ve always put myself in a situation where I’ve got to do it; it’s sink or swim. If I’m tentative about it I won’t do it. So I just had to learn everything about it.”
Using no machinery except thermometers, he has learnt to rely on more traditional methods of determining when the curd is ready to progress to its next step in the cheese-making process; his own eye and instinct.
It was a challenge Trevor met with gusto, and which is now paying off. As well as regularly selling out of his hand-made artisanal cheeses at Noosa Farmers’ Markets and farmers’ markets in Brisbane, they are sent each week to high end restaurants in Brisbane and Melbourne.
“Mozzarella was cooked by women in southern Italy. They didn’t have electricity until the 1970s, they didn’t have sophisticated equipment, so they had to use a way of gauging,” he says. “I’ve kind of learnt this by deduction. You know when it’s ready.”
Working in his micro-cheeserie, Trevor produces mozzarella,
And it seems he does.
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Blessings from the beast • The domestic buffalo is descended from the Asian water buffalo. • Buffalo milk is higher in calcium and protein than cows’ milk and lower in cholesterol than cows’ milk. • Buffalo milk is creamier in texture and sweeter in taste than cows’ milk. • Buffalo mozzarella is best eaten within hours of its making. • People who are lactose intolerant report being able to eat buffalo milk products. • Buffalo mozzarella originates in Italy, but is now produced in several countries. • There are only three cheesemakers in Australia who make buffalo cheese, including the Cedar Street Cheeserie. • Legend has it that when Anthony was sent by Caesar to conquer Egypt and Anthony fell in love with Cleopatra, they spent blissful hours on the banks of the Nile feasting on cheese made from the milk of the buffalo who grazed there. Anthony loved the cheese so much, he sent some water buffalo back to Rome as a gift for Caesar, with instructions for how to make the milk into mozzarella, and the cheese became an Italian sensation.
“OK, let’s do it!” says Trevor as the PH reading in one of the bowls reaches the right level. “All of a sudden it reaches a certain point, and it just changes. And then it goes into a ball of white curd. Then I cut it up at that point, and melt it again and start doing pulling and turning.” Trevor pulls it in various directions like a magician with a white silk scarf. “We’re about five minutes away from the transformation,” he says. Suddenly, Trevor is shaping fresh portions of mozzarella and bocconcini (simply a small version of mozzarella) and dropping them into a tub of cold water. “The Italians call it the taste of the clouds,” he says. The Italians have always had a way with words: the cheese is heavenly – creamy, rich yet light, and with a beautiful sweetness. “That’s the buffalo milk,” says Trevor. He marvels at the ‘ugly duckling’ style transformation which has occurred: “From that ugly thing there to that beautiful taste.” As if the mozzarella was not impressive enough, Trevor then proceeds to make the cheese which he describes as being “absolute total indulgence” – burrata, from the Italian word meaning butter. Burrata, Trevor explains, is a hundred-year-old Italian cheese which is actually a cream-filled mozzarella. “This is much harder to make,” says Trevor. “It’s on a technically different scale.” And the taste verdict? Insanely good. Trevor Hart’s buffalo cheeses are available at Noosa Farmers’ Markets every Sunday from 7am to midday. saltmagazine.com.au 51
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Here are four luscious lunches from esteemed Sunshine Coast chefs who have put a gourmet twist on the norm. CafĂŠ cuisine at its finest. 1. dish the seafood experience: a combination of cold and hot seafood platters. The cold seafood platter (featured) comprises local sand crab, moreton bay bug, coffin bay oysters, mooloolaba prawns, smoked salmon and fresh fruit. The hot seafood platter comprises northern territory grilled barramundi, tempura snapper fillet, coconut prawns, grilled calamari, grilled scallop and garden and noodle salads. tipple tim adams riesling 2010 chef chris wright terrace of maleny, corner of maleny-landsborough road and mountain view road, maleny. 5484 3700 or terraceofmaleny.com.au
2. dish moya valley chicken quesadilla and avocado salsa. tipple harrington’s east indies lager chef grant page hungry feel, middy’s complex, 29 main street, buderim. 5477 1331 or hungryfeel.com.au 52 salt
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4. dish open eumundi free-range steak sandwich with horseradish mayonnaise, red onion marmalade, wild rocket and hand cut fries. tipple on tap duke lager from burleigh brewery chef peter brettell wild rocket @ misty’s, 142 main street, montville. 5478 5560 or wildrocketfood.com.au saltmagazine.com.au 53
chef’s selection photos kate johns recipe daryn fitzpatrick
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Chef Daryn Fitzpatrick
The ocean’s bounty is an earthly pleasure. Here seafood is given the exotic treatment to make a flavoursome, fragrant and fresh dish. SRI LANKAN FISH & PRAWN CURRY INGREDIENTS 1kg fish fillets (such as blue eye, monkfish, flathead, king snapper) 12 green king prawns (peeled, tail on) Olive oil 10 curry leaves plus 10 extra leaves, fried in oil, to serve 4 shallots, finely sliced 4 cloves garlic, finely sliced 1 cinnamon quill 2 tsp fennel seeds 54 salt
½ tsp cardamom seeds, ground fine 1 tsp fenugreek soaked in water 1 green chilli, thinly sliced into rounds 1 tsp paprika 1 tsp turmeric 2 dsp Sri Lankan fish curry powder 1kg diced sweet potato (1.5cm dice) 200ml fish stock 1 can coconut cream 50g butter Coriander for garnish
hoT tips: • Serve with sides of naan bread, cucumber rialto and fresh chilli sambal. • For further variation, use a variety of different fish, crabmeat, bugs or other seafood.
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Sri Lankan curry sauce (this can be made several days in advance)
Season fish and prawns.
Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add curry leaves and cook, stirring until fragrant. Add cinnamon, fennel seeds, cardamom and fenugreek stirring continuously for 3 minutes. Add the shallots, garlic and season with salt. Continue to cook, stirring continuously until shallots are soft. Add green chilli, paprika, turmeric and curry powder. Cook, stirring until spices start to stick to the pan. Add fish stock and sweet potato. Bring to the boil and cook until sweet potato is tender. It should be cooked but still quite firm. Remove sweet potato and whole spices with slotted spoon and put into shallow tray to cool down quickly.
Heat sauce and sweet potatoes in saucepan but do not boil. Heat oil and butter in frying pan and fry fish and prawns gently on each side until just cooked. Place fish and prawns into large, deep serving dish and pour sauce over the top. Garnish with fried curry leaves, fresh coriander and finely chopped chilli. Serve with basmati rice. Note: This curry is meant to be more aromatic than “hot”. For a hotter curry add more chillies to the sauce or, better still, let your guests add their own sambal in at the last moment to suit their tastes.
PHILOSOPHY
Add coconut cream to curry sauce, bring back to boil and season to taste.
Use fantastically fresh ingredients, cooked simply with the respect they deserve.
Remove any spices from the sweet potato and put to one side.
Available at Sandbar Café and Kiosk, 26 The Esplanade, Bulcock Beach, Caloundra. 5491 0800 or sandbarcafekiosk.com.au
Keep sauce and potato separate until ready to use.
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relaxed recipes
high society wor d s sa lly tru de p h ot os a n a sta sia k a riof y llidis
Elegant and dainty, careful and sumptuous, high tea is a ritual and a comforting link to yesteryear. Tiny sandwiches and cakes made from delicious ingredients make diners feel they are tasting something grand, something traditional and something oh, so special.
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Mini chocolate profiteroles Choux pastry 1 cup water ½ cup unsalted butter, chopped 1 cup plain flour, sifted Pinch of sea salt 4 free-range or organic eggs, room temperature Cream filling 300ml thickened cream 2-3 tbsp caster or icing sugar, sifted 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (optional) Chocolate topping 60ml thickened cream 200g dark chocolate (40% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped 2 tbsp vegetable oil Preheat oven to 190ºC and line 2-3 trays with baking paper. Bring water and butter to the boil (over medium-high heat), ensuring butter is melted. Add all the flour and salt at once, beat vigorously with a wooden spoon to incorporate and continue beating until mixture leaves the sides of the pan (about 1 minute). Remove from heat and set aside for 5 -10 minutes to cool. Add eggs, one at a time, beating vigorously to incorporate after each addition until well combined. Spoon choux pastry into piping bag fitted with 2cm plain nozzle. Pipe into 6cm lengths (12cm for larger profiteroles) and 4cm apart. Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 150ºC and bake for a further 15 minutes. Remove from oven and prick pastries with a skewer or tip of a small knife and bake for further 5 minutes. Transfer the profiteroles to a wire rack to cool at room temperature, then halve lengthways using a bread knife and set aside. Note: If you don’t have a piping bag use two spoons to form rustic pastry mounds (pictured). Meanwhile whisk cream, icing sugar and vanilla bean paste (if using) until soft peaks form (3-5 minutes), refrigerate until required. For chocolate topping, combine cream and chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat and stir until chocolate melts and mixture combines. Stir in vegetable oil and keep warm. Remove cream from fridge and spoon into piping bag filled with 2cm nozzle and pipe into éclair halves, then dip pastry top into chocolate and place over cream. Serve immediately or refrigerate and serve chilled. The pastry can be used straight away or left to rest for up to 40 minutes, covered with plastic wrap.
HANDY HINTS • Do not open the oven during cooking or the pastry will collapse. • Éclairs will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days. • Cooked choux pastry (not filled) stores well in the freezer for up to 3 weeks.
relaxed recipes Smoked salmon SAndwiches on pumpernickel bread Âź cup mayonnaise 1 tbsp finely chopped shallots 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill 1 tbsp capers, drained 1 tsp prepared horseradish Pepper to taste 2 tsp butter, room temperature 8 slices pumpernickel bread 4 to 6 pieces (slices) smoked salmon (depending on size of salmon slices) 12 cucumber slices, sliced thinly In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, shallots, dill, capers, horseradish, and pepper; set aside. Spread butter thinly over pumpernickel bread slices; spread mayonnaise mixture on each bread slice. Divide salmon and cucumber slices evenly over 4 slices of bread; top with remaining bread slices. Cut each sandwich in half diagonally.
Chocolate-dipped strawberries 20 medium to large sized strawberries 60g plain (dark) chocolate, chopped Melt plain chocolate in a bowl or on top of a double boiler set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until smooth. Insert a cocktail stick into green hull and dip end of strawberry into chocolate. Place on a wire rack with the hull upwards to set. Chill for several hours, remove cocktail stick and serve.
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Mini Chocolate Butterfly Cakes 150g softened butter 150g caster sugar 2 tbsp cocoa powder 175g self-raising flour 3 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract Firstly pre-heat your oven to180ºC. Lightly grease a mini muffin pan. Beat eggs lightly with a fork, and then place all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix with an electric mixer for 2 minutes, until light and creamy. Pour mixture into muffin pan filling each ¾ full and bake in the oven for around 15-20 minutes until the cupcakes have risen and are firm to touch. Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool. Take a sharp knife and cut a circle out of the top of each cake at an angle about 1cm from the edge. Cut each circle in half and set aside. Icing 75g unsalted butter 175g icing sugar 3 tbsp cocoa powder Milk or warm water Place butter in bowl and beat until soft. Gradually sift and beat in the icing sugar and then add enough milk or water to make the icing fluffy and spreadable. Sift and beat the cocoa powder into the icing and spread onto cakes.
Limgoes tea set featured on page 56 is available at Cooking Company, 20 Lanyana Way, Noosa Heads, 5447 4480 or cookingcompany.com.au If you don’t have time to cook let The Two Old Ladies Tea shop serve you high tea delicacies at 2/25 Factory Street, Pomona, 5485 0147.
Place the two halves of cake on top to resemble butterfly wings. Dust the top of each cake lightly with sieved icing sugar.
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Some will turn up their noses while others confess their undying adoration. You’re the latter, of course. The rest have already turned the page. Their loss, because there’s a new sauvignon wave that could convert them in a heartbeat. No variety has ascended the popularity ladder faster this decade and, of course, the rising star has been New Zealand’s Marlborough region. Sadly, sharks always seem to move in and exploit victims of fashion. It happened to German riesling in the 1970s, to Australian chardonnay in the 1980s and it’s happening to New Zealand sauvignon blanc right now. You’ve probably seen it floor stacked for $4.95 in your local barn store. No wonder it divides a room.
word s tys o n s t e l z e r
reinvent your sauvignon Ever noticed that opening a bottle of sauvignon blanc is an easy way to polarise a room?
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But there’s another side to sauvignon, a much more genial, sophisticated and versatile style, with a history deeply rooted in the great vineyards of France and a promising future unfolding in Australia and New Zealand. Meet Kevin Judd, Cloudy Bay winemaker for twenty-five years and creator of the sauvignon that put New Zealand on the wine map. Now going solo with his own venture, Greywacke, Judd is again redefining Marlborough sauvignon, this time with a wine recently released for the first time, appropriately named “Wild”. His Wild Sauvignon is crafted like the great chardonnays of the world, making it different in three fundamental ways. No yeast is added, so fermentation is achieved by the wild yeast present in the vineyard. This process lasts as long as twelve months, creating greater flavour and complexity. Fermentation takes place in old oak barrels rather than the stainless steel tanks typically used elsewhere. He uses barrels not so much for the nutty flavours of French oak as for building texture, creaminess and persistence of flavour. This is enhanced with a third point of difference, a technique the French call bâtonnage, in which the wine is stirred
as it stays in contact with its lees (dead yeast cells) for some months. The resulting wine has greater texture, complexity and capacity to hold freshness for many years. There’s nothing new about these techniques with sauvignon blanc, but a lot more makers are trying them now, and this year for the first time, many are getting it right. Everything old is new again and the inspiration comes from the classical techniques of making sauvignon blanc in the French regions of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé and sauvignon blanc semillon blends in Bordeaux. Closer to home, it’s cooler regions which have proven their credentials, including New Zealand’s Marlborough and Canterbury and Australia’s Adelaide Hills, Margaret River, Yarra Valley, Pyrenees and Tasmania. Look out for wines from the 2009 and 2010 vintages at the moment – the lengthy production process means that these wines arrive a year later than fresh young sauvignons made more simply. With enhanced richness, complexity and mouth feel, these wines rank among the most versatile in the presence of food. They’re packed with the zesty freshness of sauvignon that works a treat with lighter seafood fare, but they have the backbone and muscle to juggle main course fare of roast chicken proportions. Every time I serve barrel-fermented sauvignon when I’m hosting wine courses and corporate events, I am always amazed by the “Wow” factor. On more than one occasion this year the empty bottles have testified this to be the wine of the night. Whether you’re a sauvignon groupie or a sauvignon-phobe, it’s time to roll out the barrels – there’s a whole new world to be discovered! FOR EXTRA SALT visit saltmagazine.com.au for your chance to win a case of The Lane Gathering Sauvignon Blanc Semillon
BEST OF THE BUNCH • De Bortoli Gulf Station Yarra Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2010........................................................ $20 Three cheers for De Bortoli for bringing sauvignon with sophistication to the masses! • Taltarni Three Monks Fumé Blanc Sauvignon Blanc 2010........................................................ $25 You must assume the mental state of not one monk but three to comprehend the intricacies of this wine! • Higher Plane Margaret River Sauvignon Blanc 2010.......... $26 Elevate yourself to a higher plane with this beautifully restrained, energetic and long-lived style. • Oakridge Limited Release Fumé Sauvignon Blanc 2010...... $32 Sauvignon blanc doesn’t age? Come back in a decade to discover Australia’s most age-worthy sauvignon. • Greywacke Wild Sauvignon 2009...................................... $35 Kevin Judd’s wild child is the most exciting new sauvignon out of Marlborough since Dog Point Section 94. • Printhie MCC Sauvignon Blanc 2010................................. $35 The Orange region has never before seen such cool, calm, textural, mineral, restrained purity. • The Lane Gathering Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2009......... $35 Not to be approached alone, the sheer complexity and energy of this wine demands a substantial gathering. • Geoff Weaver Ferus Sauvignon Blanc 2010....................... $39 One of the original wild yeast barrel fermented sauvignons is still among the best.
2009 valued at $35 per bottle.
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fashion
words and styling claire plush
Revel in the different shades of your personality and express how you feel through what you wear. Nobody said you had to stick with one style ‌ get out there and experiment. Be daring one day and sweet the next ‌ take control of how the world sees you. Katherine 62 salt
Helen Kaminski hat
Verge
Available at: Helen Kaminski, Must Have Gifts, Shop 10, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum, 5446 3055. Katherine, Gingers Boutique, Shop 2, 56 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5445 6616 or Minx & Max, Shop 3/18 Lanyana Way, Noosa Junction, 5447 3366 or OV Boutique, Shop 4, The Dunes, 27 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4505. Verge, Minx and Max contact information as above or Simply Stylish, Riverside Centre, Shop 5, 4 Maple Street, Maleny, 5499 9533. saltmagazine.com.au 63
Shabana Jacobson
wild child Unleash your fierce alter ego in animal prints, sequins, colour and jet black. Unruly locks, chunky accessories and a large dose of attitude are your new best friends. This is not for the faint-hearted. Sao Paulo
Seduce
Purple Ginger
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Galeria Hola
Cat Hammill
Available at: By Johnny and Cat Hammill, The Romantic, Shop 4, 12 Grebe Street, Peregian Beach, 5471 3235 or theromantic.com.au Galeria Hola, necklace with Peruvian hand hammered silver tubes by appointment only, 0407 050 401 or galeriahola.com.au Purple Ginger, Watermelon Red, Shop 12, Pacific on Coolum, Birtwill Street, Coolum Beach, 5473 9550 or watermelonred.com.au Religion, Fred & Ginger, Shop 2/214 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5448 3422 or fredginger.com.au Sao Paulo, High Tide Mark, Peregian Beach Village, Grebe Street, Peregian Beach, 5448 3044. Seduce, Minx and Max, contact information on page 63 or Myer, Sunshine Plaza, Horton Parade, Maroochydore or sunshineplaza.com Shabana Jacobson, Finders Keepers, Shop 4, 224 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5448 3830 or finders-keepers.com.au
By Johnny
Morrison
hopelessly devoted Bring back romance with soft hues, sheer fabrics and hints of lace. Float through the days and nights ..... in feminine outfits that evoke memories of special moments past. Add dainty jewellery, wedges and loose hair to work this demure yet sensual look. Stylestalker
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Available at: Morrison, Soul Diva, 45 Burnett Street, Buderim, 5456 4111 or souldiva.com.au Stylestalker, Alterior Motif, Shop 9, Rovera Plaza, Cotton Tree, 5443 3406 or Shop 7, Noosa Cinema Centre, Sunshine Beach Road, Noosa or alteriormotif.com.au or Fred & Ginger, contact information on page 65. Country Road, Sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 65. Katherine, Gingers Boutique, Minx and Max or OV Boutique, contact information on page 63.
Transit
Katherine
Lettuce
Country Road Showcase Jewellers
Available at: Lettuce, Essential Style Boutique, Shop 7, 23 Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, 5479 4785. Saucy Rose, 8 Levuka Avenue, Kings Beach, 5437 2260 or saucyrose.com Showcase Jewellers, rhodolite garnet and diamond ring, Smileys Jewellers, Beerwah, 5439 0611 or Buderim Jewellers, Buderim, 5445 1039 or Selig’s Caloundra Jewellers, Caloundra, 5491 3242 or Maleny Jewellers, Maleny, 5494 3477 or Millroy Jewellers, Mooloolaba, 5478 0299 or Gloss Diamonds, Maroochydore, 5443 8188 or Nambour Jewellers, Nambour, 5441 2475 or Noosa Village Jewellers, Noosaville, 5474 2322 or showcasejewellers.com.au Transit, Kabucci, 29 First Avenue, Mooloolaba, 5477 7799 or kabucci.com
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in too deep The temperature is rising and the beach is calling … it’s time to strip down and flaunt those limbs in this season’s most stylish swimwear. Flirt with waves in a cute bikini or stay beachside in a timeless one-piece. Whatever you decide it’s all about feeling comfortable in your own skin.
Baku
Sunseeker
Jets
Irene Berzelli
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Jets
Saucy Rose
Irene Berzelli
Available at: Baku and Sunseeker, Poolside, Seahaven Resort, 13 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 5448 0896. Irene Berzelli, Waterlily, 25 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 5455 3399 or berzelliswimwear.com.au Jets, Waterlily, contact information above. Saucy Rose, contact information on page 67.
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free spirit Carefree with a splash of luxury – the perfect style for Sunshine Coast living. Express your lighter side with earthy tones and fringing. Billowing dresses and distinctive jewellery are must-haves. Look to the past for endless inspiration.
Seduce
Ellis & Dewey
Shabana Jacobson Dolce Vita 70 salt
Nancybird
Opals Down Under
Whitebeach Home and Living
Available at: Bec & Bridge and Lilya, Alterior Motif, contact information on page 66. Dolce Vita, High Tide Mark, contact information on page 65. Ellis & Dewey, Essential Style Boutique, contact information on page 67. Nancybird, OV Boutique, contact information on page 63. Opals Down Under, Sterling Silver Ring with Lightning Ridge Black Opal, 11 Ballantyne Court, Palmview, 5494 5400 or opalsdownunder.com.au Available at: Whitebeach Home and Living, 1/ 214 David Low Way, Peregian Beach, 5448 1320 or whitebeachnoosa.com.au Saucy Rose, contact information on page 67. Seduce, Minx and Max, contact information on page 63 or Myer, Sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 65. Shabana Jacobson, Finders Keepers, contact information page 65.
Lilya
Bec & Bridge
Saucy Rose
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perfectly primed With spring come racing carnivals and sunlit weddings ‌ ditch winter drabs for chic attire and be ready for the next big calendar event. A sleek blazer for him and a sophisticated dress for her make the perfect wedding guest outfits. Add a punch of colour and relaxed slacks to the mix for a day at the races ‌ and remember a touch of floral never goes astray!
Meredith Meredith
Didier Parakian
Available at: Didier Parakian, Essential Style Boutique, contact information on page 67 or Gingers Boutique, contact information on page 63 or Must Have Gifts, contact information on page 63. Dolce Vita, High Tide Mark, contact information on page 65. Meredith, Gingers Boutique, contact information on page 63 or Minx and Max, contact information on page 63 or Simply Stylish, contact information on page 63.
Dolce Vita
Showcase Jewellers
Mela Purdie, OV Boutique, contact information on page 63. Metalicus, OV Boutique, contact information on page 63 or Soul Diva, contact information on page 66. Religion, Fred & Ginger, contact information on page 65. Showcase Jewellers, ring with 0.25ct of diamonds and 0.33ct black and white diamond pendant on wheat chain contact information on page 67. Visage, Mint Tea and Me, Shop 3A, 66 Jessica Boulevard, Minyama, 5477 6255.
Religion
Metalicus
Mela Purdie
Visage
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Henri Lloyd
Sunseeker
casually cool Exude effortless style in a combination of laidback pieces. The trick is to look picture-perfect in a thrown together kind of way. Keep it simple with one or two colours that can take you from the beach to a cafĂŠ in an instant. Visage
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Holiday
Whitebeach Home and Living
LouenHide
Crocs Oroton
Available at: Brax and Henri Lloyd, Klingers, 29 First Avenue, Mooloolaba, 5444 4200 or klingers.com.au Carmel’s Designs and Holiday, Carmel’s Designs & Homewares, Shop 20, The Peninsular, Mooloolaba, 5444 3767 or 21B James Street, Burleigh Heads, 5535 9255 or carmelsdesigns.com.au Crocs, Get Set Footwear, 230 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5447 1755 or 82A Bulcock Street, Caloundra, 5492 7185 or getsetfootwear.com.au LouenHide, Fae Rentoul Summerhouse, 2/3 Gibson Road, Noosaville, 5474 3900 or summerhouse.com.au or OV Boutique, contact information on page 63. Oroton, Noosa Optical, 1 Lanyana Way, Noosa Heads, 5447 3711 or noosaoptical.com.au Whitebeach Home and Living, contact information on page 71. Sunseeker, Poolside, contact information on page 69. Transit, Kabucci, contact information on page 67. Visage, Mint Tea and Me, contact information on page 73.
best foot forward
Travel in comfort, style and elegance with this season’s wide range of footwear. Put your best foot forward in eye-catching heels, versatile flats, no-fuss sandals and leather dress shoes. They carry you every day … and never let you down … it’s about time you spoilt your feet! Senso Country Road
Wonders of Spain
Ecco
Seduce
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Available at: Aetrex, Ecco and Wonders of Spain, Get Set Footwear, contact information on page 75. BachLR, Klingers, contact Cat Hammill information on page 75. Cat Hammill, The Romantic, contact information on page 65. Country Road, Sunshine Plaza, contact information on page 65. BachLR Elk, Carmel’s Designs & Homewares, contact information on page 75 or Soul Diva, contact information on page 66. LouenHide, Fae Rentoul Summerhouse, contact information on page 75 or OV Boutique, contact Aetrex information on page 63. Oroton, Noosa Optical, contact information on page 75. Senso, OV Boutique, contact information on page 63.
Elk Elk
Mix and match shoes with the latest accessories to create the perfect spring look
Country Road
Oroton
LouenHide
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meet the designer
beauty in unexpected places wo r d s fr an c e s f r a ng e nh e i m
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The journey to Anne Everingham’s artist studio and home is along a classic leafy country lane past cows and horses, lily ponds and a tomato farm. It’s just a short drive from the town of Eumundi so it’s easy to reach but hard to forget. Set on 15 elevated acres neighbouring the Eumundi Conservation Park and with a resident flock of ‘mad’ guinea fowl flapping across the lush green lawn, Anne and husband Anthony’s home must be in one of the most peaceful pockets of the Sunshine Coast. Anne invites people to view her jewellery at her studio, a wooden cottage tucked into a pretty corner of the property. “I hope people don’t feel pressured to buy when they visit,” Anne says gently, thoughtfully. “It’s just that it suits my lifestyle – I couldn’t sit in a store and wait for customers to walk through the door.” Customers obviously love to visit – Anne has been crafting jewellery for more than 30 years from her home studios, selling to a mix of loyal and new clients from all over Australia and sometimes overseas. She is self-taught and describes herself not as a jeweller, but as someone who loves making jewellery. She suspects she’s always had an eye for jewels and personal decorations. “Even when I was a little girl,” Anne says. “I look back on photos of this funny skinny kid in a pair of shorts and a shirt with a string of beads around her neck.” While plastic jewellery satisfied her as a child, Anne’s adult eye crafts bold necklaces, bracelets, bangles and earrings using semi-precious beads and stones such as Broome and Tahitian pearls, amber and coral, shell and bone, as well as metal, silver and gold. Anne loves to mix the unexpected together – the raw and the polished, the colourful and the neutral, the bold and the understated. >
“It’s the more earthy, tribal things that interest me.”
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You’ll often catch a tribal hint to her work, inspired by her travels through the east.
build a business. I think other people might have thought it was just a hobby, but in my heart I wanted to make it a full-time thing.
“I love ethnic types of ornaments – it’s not Tiffany’s for me, it’s the more earthy, tribal things that interest me,” Anne says. Each piece offers a new window into a kaleidoscopic world of dusky pinks, warm ambers, smoky greys and minty greens.
“I had a huge amount of support from my husband Anthony. He is from a creative family. He said he recognised talent when he saw it,” she laughs.
“It’s amazing,” Anne chuckles sweetly to the question of how people respond to her work. “It’s so amazing and exciting that people want to buy what you make. I’ve heard so many lovely stories about how people feel about my pieces that they’ve bought. And in some cases the next generation is starting to turn up and buy things. I guess my work has a slightly classic timeless appeal.” Anne recalls her childhood was creative in the sense that it was solitary. Growing up on a farm in southwest Queensland, her sister was her only playmate until she moved to boarding school at age 10. “And I think living in isolation like that often makes people very creative,” she starts. “You have to make your own entertainment … and I used to dream around the farm,” she laughs at the thought of her aimless musings. “And I’d always pick up found objects – pods off plants, and all of those things. Nature always fascinated me.” Anne continued to live the farming life with husband Anthony as they raised their three children while running their sheep and cattle farms in Biloela and St George. For 27 years they lived in Yandina and nurtured a ginger farm before moving to Eumundi in 2007. “I always did things with my hands – sewing, pottery, weaving,” Anne says. “Then when I started with jewellery it was instant – it came so easily and was so exciting. I really wanted to find a way to
“He gave me great support. You really need that support. It’s very confronting. We made the decision to sell our own product early on and it takes a lot of courage to exhibit on your own because you’re really exposing yourself in a way.” Anne exhibited at private school art shows and galleries in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. “And we were cheeky early on and we decided, let’s have an exhibition on the farm when we lived at Yandina. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a few weeks before Christmas.” The local community loved the concept and it turned into an annual event. Anne is thrilled to see her children explore their own creative paths. Eldest daughter Amy Clarke is a contemporary painter, middle child Kate Warby used to craft furniture and now designs jewellery and son Robert is a lauded contemporary blacksmith. And the next generation is getting involved too. Anne says her studio is a favourite play space for her seven grandchildren who love to tinker away with discarded bits and pieces. Perhaps they are little jewellers in the making. Anne Everingham jewellery by appointment. 0418 711 911 or everingham.com.au
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beauty
words and styling claire plush
regime revamp Restore and revamp your daily beauty routine with indulgent creams, serums, gels and cleansers. Suited for use around the clock, these products will leave you looking and feeling your best, from morning until night.
morning Say goodbye to frizzy, flyaway hair with Goldwell Melting Diamonds. Concentrated shine drops penetrate hair for a silky finish and long-lasting radiance. 50ml, $22.95rrp. Stay fresh all day long with Young Living AromaGuard Deodorant, the first natural deodorant formulated exclusively from therapeutic-grade essential oils and all-natural ingredients. 42.5g, $21rrp. Fight off UV rays and prevent skin damage with Guinot Age Sun Protective. Apply this highly effective anti-ageing cream to face, neck and dĂŠcolletage daily for best results. 50ml, $140rrp. Ayurda Rose and Basil Toner is super food for the skin, perfect for day and night use. Its natural ingredients help to balance the skin whilst reducing blemishes. It can also be used as an alternative to aftershave lotion for men. 125ml, $59.95rrp.
Cleanse and refine dull-looking skin with Éminence Blueberry Soy Exfoliating Cleanser. Antioxidant-rich blueberries are combined with the soothing powers of soy to tighten pores for a luminous glow. 250ml, $69rrp.
noon Rejuvenate lifeless skin with Perfect Potion Frankincense and Rose Moisture Cream. Its powerful blend of essential oils aids cell regeneration and instantly hydrates skin. 50ml, $39.95rrp. Treat your hands with generous lashings of Crabtree & Evelyn, Citron Honey and Coriander Hand Therapy. This cream combines vitamins C and E along with shea butter and macadamia nut oil to gently condition hands and cuticles. 100g, $26.95rrp. Keep lips protected from morning until night with The Body Shop Aloe Lip Treatment. Its moisturising formula soothes chapped lips leaving the skin feeling soft and nourished. This small stick is a must-have for the handbag. 15ml, $18.95rrp.
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night Replenish skin overnight with Waterlily Botanical Renewal Serum, a sublime blend of 17 precious botanicals and vitamins. It is a replenishing treatment that actively repairs and renews skin while you sleep. 30ml, $59rrp. Soften the appearance of fine lines with Environ AVST Eye Gel. This mild but effective gel uses vitamins A, C and E to give a firmer and lifted look to the skin around the eye area. 15ml, $80rrp. Ideal for skin used to a hot climate, Payot Hydra 24 Light is a light, oil-free emulsion that quenches thirsty skin and gives it a feeling of coolness. Apply both morning and night for softer, suppler, luminous skin. 50ml, $69rrp. End the day with the subtle scents of Saya Body Cleanser. With a relaxing blend of lemongrass, rosewood, eucalyptus, peppermint, lime and lemon myrtle, this low-foaming cleansing wash will leave skin feeling smooth and refreshed. 500ml, $23.95rrp.
Available at: Ayurda, Asante Day Spa, Shop 5/7-13 Beach Road, Coolum Beach. 5446 5229 or asantespa.com.au Crabtree & Evelyn, Fae Rentoul Summer House, 2/3 Gibson Road, Noosaville. 5474 3900 or summerhouse.com.au Éminence, The Spa, Noosa Springs, Links Drive, Noosa Heads. 5440 3355 or noosasprings.com.au Environ, Ikatan Spa, 46 Grays Road, Doonan. 5471 1199 or ikatanspa.com Goldwell, Smyths Inc. Hairdressing, Islander Resort 187 Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, 5449 8877 or Shop 2, Ocean Breeze, 52 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, 5447 4422 or smythsinc.com Guinot, The Heart of Beauty, Suite 7/8 Kingfisher Drive, Peregian Beach. 5448 1874 or theheartofbeauty.com.au Payot, The Spa Room, The Esplanade, Mooloolaba. 5326 1710 or thesparoom.com.au Perfect Potion, The Romantic, Peregian Village Square, Peregian Beach. 5471 3235 or theromantic.com.au Saya, Saya Factory, Shop 6/41 Gateway Drive, Noosaville. 5473 0257 or sayaskin.com The Body Shop, Ground Level, Sunshine Plaza, Maroochydore. 5479 3309 Waterlily, Spa Anise, Spicers Tamarind Retreat, 88 Obi Lane South, Maleny. 1300 809 361 or spicersgroup.com.au Young Living, Kansha, 6 Mary Street, Noosaville. 5473 0724 or kansha.com.au saltmagazine.com.au 83
artist
pamper & preen
fresh face on the world w o rds k a te j ohn s p h ot o a n a sta sia k a riof y llidis
I am the first to admit that my beauty regime is dismal. I spend a lot of my time outside, whether it’s surfing, playing polo, horse riding or distributing magazines. My skin care routine consists of a daily cleanse, a weekly facial scrub and a morning application of a tinted SPF 15 moisturiser that doubles as a foundation. My beauty bag hasn’t progressed to the next level to include an eye cream, toner and serum but after turning 30 a few months ago I know my simplistic beauty days are numbered. Grace Kovac dedicates her professional life to skin – not in the sense of waxing,
plucking and massaging but on a scientific and botanical level where she specialises in skin problems like acne, pigmentation and rosacea to anti-age treatments. Her consultation and treatment room in Noosaville is discretely tucked behind a gym on the second level. It’s a naturally lit room with a larger-than-life poster of Marilyn Monroe (her shining, milky skin beams back at me), and a “medispa” dedicated to the latest skin technology equipment and a shelf of specialised skin products. The moment I walk through the door
Whe r e i s i t ? Grace Kovac, Noosa Life Health Centre, 4/5 Gibson Road, Noosaville. 5447 1172 or 0410 681 250 or gracekovac.com.au What is special? Grace Kovac is a skin technician and is an expert in skin conditions, anti-age medicine and the latest technology and products that aid, prevent and improve our outer shell. Skincare is a dynamic industry and new technologies, treatments and products are being released on the market continually. Grace prides herself on staying abreast of the latest treatments by travelling to America once a year to research and uncover new treatments, equipment and technology. Which treatment was enjoyed? The Oxygen RX treatment is a quick, easy and pleasant one-hour treatment ($150) that was developed by Dr Pugliese and can be used on any skin type. It’s particularly effective and beneficial for those who suffer from rosacea, acne or uneven skin colour due to sun damage or bad IPL treatments. “Great for pigmentation, great for lightening and brightening treatment and great for people who are on holidays. It’s fuss free,” says Grace. “You walk out looking fantastic.” Unlike a lot of medical skin treatments where you leave shrouded in a scarf and dark sunglasses to hibernate for a couple of days, this treatment is the complete opposite. I left after the one-hour treatment with a spring in my step and an irresistible urge to keep touching my face as it felt like a newborn’s skin. Final tips? If you suffer from problematic skin, whether it is acne, pigmentation, broken capillaries or rosacea, Grace will help you achieve the skin results that you’re after.
Grace’s trained eye instantly picks up on my pigmentation from recent sun exposure. She assures me that the one hour oxygen treatment will help reinvigorate my dehydrated, sun exposed skin. The treatment begins with a gentle microdermabrasion procedure to my face. “Your skin is in need of a good buff,” says Grace. She removes the outermost layer of dead skin cells from my epidermis with a pen size vacuum – thankfully pain free. “It’s perfect timing after a microdermabrasion to introduce oxygen into the skin,” she says. Go for it, I think. Grace then starts to gently massage the oxygen treatment, which is a combination of gel and powder, into my skin for the next twenty-five minutes. Instantly I can feel my face come alive, tingling and buzzing as it drinks in the nourishment. With Grace’s expert touch, the process is relaxing and rejuvenating and I let my mind wander as she delicately feeds my skin. I’m told later that in my sublime state my endothelial cells were hard at work making new blood vessels, which allows for increased blood flow bringing nourishment to my neglected skin cells. Intermittently, Grace sprays an enzyme activation over the cream, and my face tingles more. “This helps encourage more oxygen to come to the surface, it’s a beautiful feeling, no?” she asks. Yes, yes it sure is. To finish Grace wipes off the cream to reveal my new, luminous face. She’s delighted with the results. The combination of the microdermabrasion and the oxygen facial has lifted most of my pigmentation, leaving an even skin tone. I’m dusted down with mineral makeup and leave looking ten years younger. Thirty is the new twenty, didn’t you know? saltmagazine.com.au 85
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wild ones still artist’s heart word s l i n da r e ad p ho t o s k a t e j o h ns
There is a large herd of zebras at Peregian Beach. But beachgoers need not be alarmed – the zebras are safely contained within pastel artist Jan Hodgson’s large collection of photos of the stripy African subjects, which she uses as inspiration for her striking close-up paintings.
“I have a look at photos and see a crowd of zebras and see how they’re all standing and how far back I have to put them,” she says. “Then I go through my great collection of photos, and I think ‘there’s a bottom I can use’. It takes ages, the drawing up.”
“I’ve got six million zebras,” says Jan of her collection of photos. “Many, many zebras. I want my paintings to look real. I’ve been to every zoo in Australia that has zebras I think! I’ve not actually been to Africa, but I go to all the zoos here. Melbourne Zoo is good; I probably got about a thousand pictures of which you can use a hundred.
If Jan’s aim is realism in her paintings, she has definitely achieved her goal. Jan’s zebras and other animals possess a quirkiness of expression which is captured in their amazingly life-like eyes. Her works are almost photographic depictions of her subjects, whether they are the African animals she loves, or, contrastingly, her bold, bright still life studies of fruit and flowers.
“You’ve got to get one where he puts his head up and looks at you and all of a sudden you go ‘click’ – gotcha.”
If she is not photographing animals at zoos, you may find her lying on the floor photographing a piece of fruit and its reflection. “I get good reflection on my floor,” she says.
Jan takes the photos to her studio and uses them to draw her subject, which, she explains, is the longest part of the process.
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But when they’re on the floor it’s a bit hard. It’s a bit annoying to be lying down while I paint, so I’ll use my photo.” The beginnings of a painting called “Fruit Cup” sits on the easel in Jan’s studio. So far, the painting has a dark background and the reflection of a pear in it. Jan explains how she will make it come to life. “I start with the background and work forward,” she says. “I do the reflection first, because the pear sits on top of the reflection. I don’t like sombre, I like bright. The very dark background brings the fruit forward; it jumps off the wall at you. “I think it’s the way artists look at things too – some people may not even notice a reflection, whereas an artist has a different eye I think. An artist notices different things.”
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Painting exclusively with pastels, Jan loves the immediacy of this medium. “I started off in oils, and you seem to be forever mixing colours and cleaning brushes, and all that stink! What do I do with all the turps?” she says. “I changed to pastels. You just pick up the colour and start. I’ve got millions of them – all these drawers here.” The drawers certainly seem to be bursting with colours in the light, airy studio where Jan works at the Peregian Beach home where she and her husband live. Jan finds the lifestyle and surroundings of her beachside haven an endless inspiration for painting. In fact, it was the move to the coast 20 years ago from Brisbane, because of her husband’s work, that saw the birth of her career as an
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artist. Before this, despite a lifelong desire to paint, Jan had never had the time during her hectic career as a secretary. “I always liked art as a child, but I never had the time to do it properly,” she says. “There’s always been something there. “When we moved here I went around the galleries,” says Jan. “I found an artist who was doing workshops – Lyn Fraser-Roberts. I went to art class with her for about a year. She was marvellous. I just loved it; it was the highlight of my week going to art class with her. “I didn’t exhibit anywhere for a few years, until I felt that I was good enough. Then I approached a few galleries, and a couple of them were good enough to take me on board.”
These days, Jan’s paintings sell almost as soon as they are finished, which is something she never dared dream of not so long ago. It certainly keeps her busy painting every day in her studio. “I just love to paint. The whole world stops when I paint. I don’t get distracted because I’m in my little zone. I lose track of time. The time just flies and all of a sudden it’s five o’clock. “I paint most afternoons, and I try and make it like a job,” she says. “But it’s a fun job.” Jan Hodgson will be Montville Art Gallery’s artist of the month in December. Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 or montvilleartgallery.com.au
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein Although you never know exactly what life has in store for you, it does have a strange way of coming full circle. This is certainly true of artist Sonja Georgeson. As a small girl, sitting on the floor surrounded by discarded fabric from her mother’s sewing, she dreamt of having her own studio in which to create and teach. “There was always something being made in our house and an environment of how to create something from nothing,” she says. “As soon as I knew that it was all right to have a room that you created in, that’s what I wanted. I got a blackboard and can remember lining my dolls and teddies up and teaching them.” Fast forward several decades and Sonja’s childhood dreams have travelled full circle and become a reality. Now Maleny Arts Retreat’s artist-in-residence, Sonja exhibits in the onsite gallery, runs weekend workshops and holds art classes twice a week where students benefit from her knowledge of a wide range of mediums from pastels to collage, oils, acrylics, watercolours and printmaking. Sonja’s move to the coast – a fortuitous coincidence of circumstances – followed a successful career on Sydney’s northern beaches, where her studio was an old light-filled church building complete with four-metre pressed metal ceilings and arched windows. Although she misses the old studio, she has been captivated by the hinterland landscape and its “palpable” creative energy. “The plain laid out beneath you, all five [Glass House]
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mountains and the coast beyond it … I just wept the first time I saw it – exquisite,” she says. Sonja’s love of all things tactile initially led her to study textile at Sydney’s College of the Arts and after completing her degree she began experimenting. “I taught myself different effects because it helped me to display my own ideas better. Experimenting is really important in creating art and keeps the ideas flowing.” It’s something she encourages in her students. “Everything is redeemable as far as I’m concerned. People are expecting things to work out like there’s a formula and there isn’t in art. It’s a lifelong journey; you can never know it all. It’s infinite, it’s creation,” she says. The ongoing weekly classes at Maleny Arts Retreat in drawing, painting and printmaking are tailored to suit each individual’s needs, from teaching the fundamentals of a particular medium to helping develop a piece which has become “stuck”. “I’ll send them in a direction to find solutions to their problems,” Sonja says. “Just looking at another picture and the way it’s constructed can help and become further inspiration.” Sonja also runs a Stanley River Workshop every second month, a weekend of intense creativity which begins with a field visit to study the texture, line, shape and colour of the river and forms a metaphor for the creative flow underpinning each piece of artwork. This idea of flow is powerfully evident in Sonja’s own work. An avid and compulsive creator, she collects inspiration from everything around her, storing notes and reminders in journals and boxes to create a ‘cooking pot’ of thought processes. Echoing her strong affinity with texture and pattern, Sonja’s latest work is inspired by exotic Indian and African cultures with intricate hard-carved wooden block patterns and delicate hand-sewn beading on leather, creating a rich three-dimensional effect and bringing the pieces to life.
Sonja has also begun working with book-binding techniques, and has tied richly tactile Japanese paper scrolls with beautifully decorated pages and simple haiku-style poetry to capture the imagination. Sonja says the work is not just about text and pictures; it’s also about touch and a sense of history, archeology and anthropology. Her extensive collection of art history books and wealth of knowledge is something her students can draw on for their own pieces. “So that you can break out in your creativity, you do need a structure underlying it that can ground everything again. Your imagination is wild and has no pattern to it. You need a framework to hang it all on. “I am, I think, quite grounded but have major flights of fancy.” With the stunning work that Sonja creates, art lovers can be glad that is the case. Painting and Drawing Classes with Sonja Georgeson are held every Thursday and Saturday at Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Stanley River Rd, Maleny. Stanley River Workshops are held every second month. 5499 9801 or malenyartsretreat.com.au
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art dates 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 spring:
september ART OF GLASS – MARC KALIFA Hand-blown glass vases and objects, as well as more sculptural works, capture light and the imagination. when: Now to September 30 where: Art on Cairncross, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au RIDE THE WIND – DES ROLPH An explosive new series that explores the sensual side of nature with a soft and delicious colour palette. Des Rolph’s latest work will leave you mesmerised. when: Now to October 16 where: The Gallery Eumundi, 1 Gridley Street, Eumundi. 5442 8365 thegalleryeumundi.com SQUEEZE 2011 A biennial art educator exhibition, Squeeze encourages art educators out of their classrooms and into their studios to expand their arts practice. when: Now to October 23 where: Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au CREATIVE GENERATIONS Forty inspiring artworks by senior visual arts students from throughout Queensland. when: Now to October 30 where: Noosa Regional Gallery, Riverside, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org 92 salt
La Abeja by David Chavez
DONALD WATERS This exhibition will showcase vibrant works by talented feature artist Donald Waters. when: September 18 and October 1 where: Landsborough Galleries, 27 Caloundra Street, Landsborough. 5439 9943 landsboroughgalleries.com.au AN INTRODUCTION TO SILVERSMITHING Professional jewellers Kim Cox, Alex Bull and Scott Mitchell will teach the essential techniques for making jewellery. when: September 24 and 25 where: Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 MalenyStanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au GARY MYERS AT SPICERS CLOVELLY ESTATE The magnificent arts works of Gary Myers will be sold at a charity luncheon. when: September 25 where: Spicers Clovelly Estate, 68 Balmoral Road, Montville. 5452 1111 spicersgroup.com.au
october ADAM BOGUSZ Adam’s unique style of “painterly art” exhibits an original form of expression in which links to his musical talent, lyrical and compositional skills are evident. Featured on page 94 is The Arrangement by Adam Bogusz, which will be included in the exhibition. when: October 1 to 31 where: Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 montvilleartgallery.com.au
FROM THE STUDIO – REX BACKHAUS-SMITH A feature of both watercolours and acrylics on canvas depicting the underlining nature of the outback. when: October 1 to 30 where: Art on Cairncross, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au CLASSIC STILL LIFE ART Ian Mastin is showing his exquisite still life paintings. Emulating the old masters, his work is of lasting beauty. Featured on page 94 is 3f by Candlelight by Ian Mastin, which will be included in the exhibition. when: October 9 to 23 where: Lasting Impressions Gallery, 6 Elizabeth Street, Kenilworth. 5446 0422 lastingimpressionsgallery.net THE DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS In order to draw you have to learn to see. These nine classes are designed for the absolute beginner. when: From October 11 where: Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 MalenyStanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION AT GALERIA HOLA Browse through exclusive handmade Peruvian Art and Austrian Christmas nativities, decorations and candle settings at Galeria Hola’s Christmas Exhibition. Featured above is La Abeja by David Chavez, which will be included in the Christmas exhibition. when: October 21 to 23 from 2pm to 6pm. where: Galeria Hola, 23 Whyandra Close, Doonan. 0407 050 401 galeriahola.com.au
3f by Candlelight by Ian Mastin.
City Patterns by Margi Parry.
Dreadlocks and Drapery by Lynn Cran.
STANLEY RIVER MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP Learn how to work up a narrative in line, mark, texture, shape, colour and words. when: October 22 and 23 where: Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 MalenyStanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au LINEAGE: SELECTED PORTRAITS 1998–2010, David Fairbairn This Campbelltown Arts Centre touring exhibition is a 12-year retrospective exhibition of the work of David Fairbairn, illustrating the artist’s dedication, skill, and insight into portraiture. when: October 26 to December 4 where: Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au
november NEW WORK FROM LYNN CRAN Highlighting the latest works from Maleny artist Lynn Cran. Featured above is Dreadlocks and Drapery by Lynn Cran. when: November where: Gary Myers Gallery at Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Maleny-Stanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au ROWLEY DRYSDALE CERAMICS A wonderful mix of artworks from contemporary framed wall pieces to pots, some from wood-fired as well as gas-fired kilns. when: November 1 to 27 where: Art on Cairncross, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au 94 salt
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KEVIN PENNY Kevin Penny is deeply moved by the beauty and grandeur of the Australian eucalypts, believing every lump and bump on the gnarled limbs add character to these majestic trees. when: November 1 to 31 where: Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 montvilleartgallery.com.au TOUR DE FORCE: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS Highlighting the work of eight progressive Australian artists who breach traditional boundaries in ideas, methods and materials of glassmaking. when: November 2 to December 11 where: Noosa Regional Gallery, Riverside, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR COLLECTABLE ART SALE Save on beautiful art by prestigious artists including Boyd, Dickerson, Doyle, Garrett, Hart, Heysen, Kilvington, Lindsay, Mora, Namatjira, Nolan, Olley, Sawrey and Storrier. Featured on page 95 is Young Child with Orange by David Boyd, which will be included in the exhibition. when: Mid November to mid January where: Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery, 138 Burnett Street, Corner Townsend Road, Buderim. 5450 1722 tiffanyjonesfineart.com.au
THE NAKED SPACE Learn to expand your awareness beyond the model and play with light, colour and reflection in this figure drawing workshop with Lynn Cran. when: November 26 and 27 where: Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 MalenyStanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au
december CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION Enjoy the annual group exhibition showcasing highly skilled local artists. when: December where: Gary Myers Gallery at Maleny Arts Retreat, 901 Maleny-Stanley River Road, Maleny. 5499 9801 malenyartsretreat.com.au JAN HODGSON Jan Hodgson’s attention to detail, eye for colour and fascination for the simple but often complex beauty of nature’s gifts enables her to produce superb pastels with an almost photographic finish. when: December 1 to 31 where: Montville Art Gallery, 138 Main Street, Montville. 5442 9211 montvilleartgallery.com.au
Young Child with Orange by David Boyd.
PRECIOUS LITTLE Annual feature with the focus on smaller works of art to bring quality and originality back to Christmas gifts. when: December 3 to 24 where: Art on Cairncross, Cairncross Corner, Maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au THE WRAP UP Art Nuvo is wrapping up 2011 with a mixed showing of mediums by Shannon Garson, Carmen Hannay, Gary Myers, Roger Lane, Emma Theyres and Lindsay Muir. Experience the joy of giving unique art gifts. Featured on page 92 is Porcelain Butterfly Bowl by Shannon Garson, which will be included in the exhibition. when: December 3 to 25 where: Art Nuvo Gallery, 25 Gloucester Road, Buderim. 5456 2445 artnuvobuderim.com.au LINDA KEOUGH – NOSTALGIA AND LIGHT Discover stunning oils by painter Linda Keough at her beautiful exhibition of emotive paintings that merge romantic play of light and elegant realism with intriguing and nostalgic subjects. when: December 4 to December 18 where: Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery, 138 Burnett Street, Corner Townsend Road, Buderim. 5450 1722 tiffanyjonesfineart.com.au
MY MORNING RITUAL: NICOLA CHATHAM Nicola Chatham takes the physical and emotional experience of her natural environments and personal relationships, translating it into a beautiful visual and literary record of day-to-day self examination. when: December 7 to January 15 where: Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au SERENITY IS … MARGI PARRY Gathered in this exhibition are some of Margi Parry’s moments of serenity. Each work recalls a past memory, captures the now or anticipates the future, while savouring the insight of each serene moment. Featured on page 94 is City Patterns by Margi Parry, which will be included in the exhibition. when: December 7 to January 15 where: Caloundra Regional Gallery, 22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra. 5420 8299 caloundraregionalgallery.org.au ROBERT BAINES: METAL Robert Baines is one of Australia’s most prominent and influential jewellers and goldsmiths, with a career spanning more than 30 years. when: December 16 to January 29 where: Noosa Regional Gallery, Riverside, Pelican Street, Tewantin. 5449 5340 noosaregionalgallery.org
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FUL L M OO N RIS IN G > artist ando medium oil on canvas size 1600 x 1100mm price $11,900 landsborough galleries, 27 caloundra street, landsborough. 5439 9943 landsboroughgalleries.com.au
art space These artworks, featured on salt’s own gallery space for spring, inspire, challenge – and give pause for thought.
DUST IN T HE M O RN IN G , LAKE M U N GO artist rex backhaus-smith medium acrylic on canvas size 1500 x 1500mm price $15,000 art on cairncross, 3 panorama place, cairncross corner, maleny. 5429 6404 artoncairncross.com.au
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TROPICS ALIVE > artist darryl trott medium limited edition (giclee) size 620 x 545mm price $310 eureka art, open by appointment. 0438 738 258 eurekaart.com.au
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T H E MA R I O N ETT E artist viva medium acrylic on canvas size 410 x 510mm unframed price $395 highly strung picture framing & art supplies, corner lowe street and memorial drive, eumundi. 5442 7044 highlystrung.com.au
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city size, village attitude wo rd s be r n ar d s al t ill us t ration pe t e r h o l l ar d
Do you know the thing that I think most distinguishes the Sunshine Coast from other Australian cities of a similar scale? It’s the urban form.
The Sunshine Coast is a community of more than 250,000 permanent residents which makes it similar in scale to say Hobart (220,000) or Wollongong (290,000) or perhaps Geelong (180,000). But in each of these cities there is a single city centre surrounded by sprawling and contiguous suburbia. Not the Sunshine Coast. This place is a cultural fusion of quite independently minded urban and rural communities. Noosa is different to Maroochy which is different again to Caloundra. And yet all parts of the Sunshine Coast seem to flow effortlessly into a single and coordinated whole. Some years ago the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, proudly unveiled her strategic vision for the City of Sydney which she conceived as a ‘collection of urban villages’. This theme of urban villages subsequently came to the fore in Australian town planning. Every fashionable strategic plan had to advocate the development
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and celebration of urban villages. Moore’s argument was that the suburb of Ultimo, for example, was a different ‘village’ to the suburb of Paddington and so forth. This idea of course is all very chic and it played well to the innercity elite who see themselves as living in culturally enriched enclaves. Melbourne too promoted an urban villages theme and especially with the Docklands being touted as an entirely new village. But whenever I see or read anything associated with this notion of urban villages I am highly skeptical. No Australian city of any scale does urban villages in a way that truly compares with the Sunshine Coast. The reason is simple. The centres of Sydney and Melbourne have not been genuine ‘urban villages’ for 150 years or more. The tagging
of these cities’ inner suburbs as urban villages is nothing more than town planning gloss and marketing hype. If you really want to see working and authentic urban villages that are coordinated into a grander whole then take a drive from the village of Noosa past the villages of Coolum, Maroochydore, Kawana and Buderim and on to the village of Caloundra. These are not suburbs which have been formed by housing spreading out from a distant centre, as is the case for much of the suburbia of Sydney and Melbourne. These are places that have a separate beginning and that over time have grown and merged into one another. There is a cultural pastiche to the Sunshine Coast that you simply do not get in other cities. It is a layering of connected villages and settlements. I sometimes wonder whether a resident of Buderim sees themselves as a Buderim-ist first and as a Sunshine Coaster second. This is not dissimilar to the Italian concept of place: first I am a resident of Naples then I am a resident of Italy. This goes to the heart of the way that Sunshine Coasters see themselves. One of the challenges for local politicians I suspect is to balance these competing interests. What is good for Buderim is not always necessarily what is in the best interests of the Sunshine Coast. I might also add that not all aspects of urban villages are positive. Indeed some might say all this focus on the local community, rather than on the bigger picture and the whole coast community, leads to a parochialism that is not found in other cities. In other words, a city comprised of a collection of urban villages is an attractive lifestyle concept that is mimicked by bigger cities. But an urban village culture is a two-edged sword: it makes for a great sense of community however it can also lead to lack of vision. The challenge I suspect for the Sunshine Coast in the 2010s will be to fuse the community into a single culture with a common, shared and agreed destiny. That way local residents of say Buderim are more likely to put the needs of the broader community ahead of their own. Perhaps one of the ways to achieve this would be to hold a summit that envisions the Sunshine Coast in 2050: what kind of community should we aim for by the middle of the 21st century? I would be pleased to be involved in just such a summit, although I wonder whether the different urban villages of the Sunshine Coast would squabble over who gets to stage the event? Bernard Salt is a KPMG Partner, bernardsalt.com.au To see more illustrations by Peter Hollard visit peterhollardart.com FOR your chance to win one of three of Bernard Salt’s latest book The Big Tilt head to the WIN page at saltmagazine.com.au
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in your dreams
bustle traded for hum w o rd s cl ai r e pl u s h p h o t o s a na s t a s i a k a r i o f y l l i d i s
Chris and Warner Banks left their bustling lives behind to find serenity in one of Noosa’s newest developments.
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Both from New Zealand, the pair met whilst working in Hong Kong – Chris as a teacher at the German Swiss International School and Warner as a magistrate and then a coroner. They lived in Hong Kong for 13 years before Warner accepted a position as the Attorney-General of Niue, a small Polynesian island. “Niue is defined as a self-governing state within the realm of New Zealand, so being a New Zealand-qualified lawyer I could take on the job,” Warner explains. After three years in Niue, Chris and Warner moved on to Australian shores. “I think we both had enough of our respective careers,” Warner says. “So we decided to try something different.” In 1999 they launched into a new career in management rights, first at Coolum then in partnership with Warner’s sister and brother-in-law on the Gold Coast. For the past five years they have been living and working in Mackay after buying two motels in the region. In February the couple packed their belongings once again and hit the road, this time finding solace in Noosa. Sitting on the balcony of their luxury Riverlight apartment, part of the tranquil Settler’s Cove, the couple is soaking up their new found stillness. “It’s got a very appropriate name – Serenity Close,” Chris says referring to the street name. “It’s very peaceful here.” The complex surrounds a lush sub-tropical oasis featuring a lap pool, spas, gym and entertaining areas. “The facilities are superb,” Warner says. “To have facilities like this in a house is a lot of work, so it was one of the big advantages.” The other draw card was the sprawling apartment they now call home. Chris and Warner made the decision to start their retired life with a relatively clean slate. > saltmagazine.com.au 101
Grabbing the opportunity to start afresh with both hands, they discarded old furniture and boxes of knick knacks they no longer wanted. The empty apartment was to Chris what a blank canvas is to a painter. She knew from the beginning that she wanted to steer away from their regular Asian-themed interiors and instead move towards a more sophisticated style inspired by inner-city living. “When we were in Hong Kong we had a lot of Asian rugs, polished floors and quite a lot of heavy furniture. I think this time I just wanted to soften it up a bit,” she says.
Natasha credits the outcome of the apartment’s interior to Chris’s strong tastes. “She had definite ideas in her mind, so it was a matter of getting in her head and pulling it all together for her,” Natasha says. Together they created a home that is light, airy but somewhat timeless. Visitors reach the elevated apartment from a lift on the ground floor. A robust wooden door opens into a short hallway, lined with a lavish rug that the couple found on their travels throughout Asia.
Having decorated the interiors of 18 new rooms that were added to their Mackay motel, this was not the first time that Chris had dipped her toes into design waters.
Large tiles cover the floor and branch both left and right. The hallway to the left leads past the main bathroom and flows into the living areas of the home.
“I love interior design or fashion or anything pretty,” she says.
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“It’s always great to have your own ideas, but it’s nice to bounce off somebody,” Warner says.
Four seats lined with a striped fabric are propped at either side of the solid focal point.
At one end of the table, eyes are directed towards a media room complete with an L-shaped cream leather lounge. Solid wooden doors separate the rooms when closed.
Warner’s office separates a second and a third bedroom, each of which has its own ensuite. Both rooms fall onto a smaller balcony that overlooks the complex courtyard and pool.
The other end flows into a casual seating area where soft couches and unique chairs from Korea frame a silver-painted coffee table with a mirrored bottom and distressed finish. Scatter cushions add depth to the single toned couch, while off-white walls are brought to life with detailed artworks.
The soft colour scheme continues throughout the home with white linen balancing dark Asian pieces like a rice grinder from Korea that sits by the window.
Sheer curtains and glass sliding doors reveal a large outdoor area, where glimpses of water can be seen through a border of trees. A built-in barbecue, heated spa and outdoor furniture make this space the entertaining hub of the apartment. The main bedroom, featuring a walk-in wardrobe and ensuite, sits in a nook between the living and outdoor areas. At the opposite end of the home is what Chris and Warner have labelled the “guest wing”.
“We tried to eclectically put it together so it all looks like it belongs instead of one piece standing out too much,” Natasha says. The mix of familiar pieces, neutral fabrics and new furniture has provided Chris and Warner with the perfect backdrop for their next chapter. Days previously spent in court, classrooms or looking after motels are now filled with golf, yoga, visitors and trips away. “We seem so busy,” Chris says. “We certainly don’t have time for work anymore,” adds Warner, with a laugh.
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great outdoors
glorious golf in sublime settings word s a lexan de r fy n e s - c l i n t o n
It’s that time of year again.
The Australian PGA Championship rolls back into Coolum this November, bringing with it some of the world’s best players and thousands of Australian golf’s most fervent fans. With golf back in the spotlight on the coast once more, there has never been a better time for the happy hacker to explore the world-class range of courses the region has to offer. No osa S pr i n g s Location: Links Drive, Noosa Heads. Description: Noosa Springs has forged itself a reputation as one of Australia’s most scenic and manicured golfing playgrounds. Ten freshwater lakes, 69 bunkers and an abundance of native wildlife underpin this par 72 golfing haven. Hot tip: Whilst easy on the eye, Noosa Springs’ abundance of on-course lakes can pose a real challenge for unsuspecting punters. Warren Ellis from the Noosa Springs Pro Shop: “There’re some great water features out there on the golf course, with the fourth and fifth holes in particular posing a great challenge. It’s a real test of golf.” Price: The full 18 holes, including motorised golf cart hire, is $120. The club also runs a discount day for Sunshine Coast locals every Sunday – 18 holes for $75.
and PGA professional Paul Crangle: “The majority of the holes on the back nine have water. The course isn’t particularly long. For first timers, I’d suggest leaving the driver in the bag. You’ve got to be straight and accurate to play this golf course.” Price: An 18-hole round costs $110. Golf cart hire is an extra $40. The club also offers discount rounds on Sundays and Thursdays for $115 including cart hire. coolum.regency.hyatt.com P ER EGIA N SP R INGS Location: 95 Peregian Springs Drive, Peregian Springs. Description: The Sunshine Coast’s most exclusive club, Peregian is a members-only course, set around some of the coast’s most beautiful natural bushland. Hot tip: The narrow fairway from hole to tee on the seventh hole can leave many in the lurch. Peregian Springs secretary/manager Stephen Porter: “There’s not much margin for error on the seventh. It’s a very narrow bush hole. I’d suggest taking the three wood to the tee to keep the ball as straight as possible.”
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Location: 24 Biondi Crescent, Beerwah.
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Description: Harbouring a distinctly different feel from the abundance of resort-style courses on the Sunshine Coast, Beerwah revels in the warm country feel the region is known for. With the stunning Glass House Mountains providing the backdrop, this flat, beautifully kept par 72 is well
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worth a look for veterans and newbies alike. Hot tip: There’s more to this seemingly flat and faultless course than meets the eye. Resident Beerwah pro John Mellish: “On the eleventh hole there’s a par five with a creek that guards the green from about eighty metres out. Hole fourteen’s also got a huge dog leg right turn.” Price: A full 18 holes can be enjoyed for $35. The club also runs a special unlimited hole deal on Tuesday for $25. Golf carts can be hired from the pro shop for an additional $35. beerwahgolfclub.com.au Pelican Wa t e rs G o l f Cl u b Location: 40 Mahogany Drive, Pelican Waters, Golden Beach. Description: A favourite with many locals, this Greg Normandesigned par 72 is nestled in the beautiful Pelican Waters. Surrounded by pristine natural landscape, 93 bunkers and a host of challenging water features are the cornerstones of this challenging course. Hot tip: The deceptively short distance from hole to tee on the first three holes can catch many by surprise. Operations manager David Murden: “A tip that we give to most people is to not necessarily take the driver out on all holes. The first three holes especially aren’t particularly long and need to be played straight, so the driver isn’t always the best option.” Price: A full 18 holes, including motorised golf cart hire, is $110. The club also offers a daily twilight special, which includes a full 18 hole round, with golf cart hire, for $59 after 1pm. clubpelican.com.au FOR your chance to win one of two golf and spa packages at Noosa Springs to the value of $180 click on the WIN page of saltmagazine.com.au
tourist information Backward G l a nc e Can you guess where on the Sunshine Coast this is and in what year? Visit the READ SALT page on saltmagazine.com.au to find out.
Image courtesy of Sunshine Coast Libraries.
climate
travelling distances
No wonder it’s called the Sunshine Coast, with an average of seven hours of sunshine daily (one of the highest amounts in the world). Spring (September to November) days are always popular with visitors with an average temperature between 13°C to 25°C and an ocean temperature of 22°C. Temperatures in the hinterland can be several degrees cooler.
Brisbane to Caloundra............................ 100km Brisbane to Mooloolaba.......................... 105km Brisbane to Nambour............................. 110km Brisbane to Noosa ................................. 148km Noosa to Montville.................................. 56km Mooloolaba to Maleny............................ 41km Caloundra to Kenilworth......................... 77km
school holidays September 17, 2011 to October 2, 2011
emergency telephone numbers Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Police, Coastguard, Rescue...........................000 Poisons Information Centre...................131 126 Ambulance Transport............................131 233
markets Cotton Tree Street Market, King St, Cotton Tree, every Sunday, 7am to noon. Eumundi Courtyard Village Market, 76 Memorial Dr, Eumundi, every Saturday 8am to 2pm, Wednesday 8.30am to 1pm. Caloundra Markets, Bulcock St, Caloundra, every Sunday, 8am to 1pm. Caloundra Country Markets, Central Park, Arthur St, Caloundra, every Sunday 7am to noon. Kawana Waters Farmers’ Market, every Saturday, Stern Street (Sportsman Parade end), 7am to noon. Noosa Farmers’ Market, AFL Grounds, Weyba Rd, Noosaville, every Sunday, 7am to noon, Maleny Market, Maple St, every Sunday, 8am to 2pm. Fishermans Road Sunday Markets, Fishermans Rd, Maroochydore, every Sunday 6am to noon. 108 salt
surf safety patrols (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: 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.
slip, slop, slap and wrap Slip on a shirt (preferably a long-sleeved shirt). Slop on the sunscreen (30+ and reapply as needed). Slap on a hat. Wrap some UV protective sunglasses around your eyes. 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.
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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 Monday to Friday and 8am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday. 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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