AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Stripey Water Sports Accessories

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Manic Monday prompt ~ Stripe
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It's good to face
The new century
With a whole
New
Stripey
Makeover
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Blue and white striped bathing box at Dromana beach
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Some prefer
The toothpaste style stripe ~
Always looking
Freshly squeezed
From the tube
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Candy striped bathing box at Dromana beach
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Others definitely love
The candy gloss stripe
Of party worlds
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It seems that
There is far more
To the old bathing box
Of yesteryear than
An ironic
(Slightly amusing)
Similarity to
The famous Outback loo
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This humble little boat shack is
Slowly
Doggedly
Evolving into
A desirable piece of
Sacred
(Some look like mini churches!)
Beachy artwork
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Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ All dressed up bathing boxes at Dromana ~ Even a striped roof!

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ More Dromana bathing boxes. As you can see, they are all very close together, often in groups where sand meets grass.

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana bathing box with attitude. Not everyone likes stripes on bathing boxes. There are the rebel few who try their hand at some artwork.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Front of the Dromana bathing box featured above

6 comments:

anthonynorth said...

Now that was really colourful. Makes me want to get the paint brush out. Though I'm not sure the neighbours would approve :-)

Barb said...

Great first entry for Manic Monday! I don't get to the beach, well, ever! So these are new to me! Reminds of the old ones years ago from movies and billboards and such!

maryt/theteach said...

Bathing boxes! We don't have them here, at least here in the Northeast. But we have something called "cabanas" which probably serve the same purpose. They are on the beaches and serve as a place to keep your stuff and/or change your clothes. :)

maryt/theteach said...

I wanted to say they are so whimsically decorated! :)

Mo and The Purries said...

What fun little buildings!
The stripey ones make me smile.
Welcome To Manic Monday!
cheers,
manic mo

Jane Hards Photography said...

We have these in the UK, beach huts. They sell now for extortionate prices in some places. I have alwasy had a doft spot for them, and the individuality they bring out in their owners. Lovely post.

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