Skywatch Friday: Dawn's first light

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Brisbane River, last week.

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Skywatch Friday: Blue skies, shining at me!

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Hard to beat this blue winter sky from Queensland!

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Skywatch Friday: Noosa nightfall

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Overlooking a resort at Noosa, one of Australia's favourite winter destinations, just after sunset.

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Skywatch Friday: Fraser Island fishermen

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Birthday celebrations this week took me to Queensland's beautiful Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island. It is also a wonderful fishing ground.

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Skywatch Friday: Southport sea & sky

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We have some friends from Thailand who are holidaying on Queenlsand's Gold Coast. This is the view of the Pacific Ocean from their apartment last Tuesday. It was about 24 degrees C - not bad for mid-winter, hey?

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Skywatch Friday: Bridge and boats

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Brisbane's Gateway Bridge is currently being cloned to relieve traffic congestion.
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Skywatch Friday: Mt Tamborine sunset

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We're outside Brisbane today - in the Gold Coast hinterland, looking west towards the Great Dividing Range. Enjoy!

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Skywatch Friday: It's hard to tell...

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... whether it will rain or not!

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Skywatch Friday: CityCat

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Brisbane's river ferries are called CityCats, and here's one travelling upriver towards the CBD at sunrise (6:30am) on Wednesday, July 1st. A sensational ride for early commuters!

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Skywatch Friday: NZ's Lake Taupo

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Home skies have been grey and dreary this week, so here's a photo from my travels - New Zealand's beautiful Lake Taupo.
I like the layers - water, mountain, clouds, sky. Enjoy!

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Skywatch Friday: Brisbane's changing sky

Sunrise - Monday 15 June at 6:30 am

Later - Monday 15 June at 8:20 am

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Skywatch Friday: Old church

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Australia is a very young country in terms of modern western population, although the land itself is ancient, and its indigenous inhabitants had a viable (if nomadic) lifestyle long before the white settlers arrived to start a penal colony for England.

In my city of Brisbane, this is one of the oldest buildings; the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Stephen. The original cathedral, the smaller building on the right, dates from the early Moreton Bay convict settlement days. It was constructed from 1848 to 1850.

The current cathedral, on the left, was built to replace it in 1863. The two buildings are in current use, even though they are now dwarfed by inner-city office towers and apartment buildings, and they are pictured here beneath the blue sky of a Brisbane winter morning.

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