My home town of Jacobs Well is a small Village popular with the fishing community due to its easy access to the protected waterways of the southern end of Brisbane's Moreton Bay and is surrounded by a huge area of canefields.
Jacobs Well was named after the eldest son of Johann Gottlieb Gross, a pioneer and early settler of Pimpama Island in the early 1860s. His son found a well whilst hunting and fishing with friends and the well was named after him.
You can check the weather in Jacobs Well at this link:
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/qld/southeast-coast/jacobs-well
The Local Tourist Park also has a website with a neat Virtual Tour:
http://www.gctp.com.au/jacobs/
I often wander around town taking random pics so here's a selection:
Roadside Vegetable Stand...
A tree in a the open woodland of one of the parks...
Sunrise over Kangaroo Island...
Abandoned boat in the mangroves...
Crab holes in the mudflats...
Old winch on the shore line at low tide...
One of the strangest boats i've ever seen...
Sign at the Volunteer Marine Rescue jetty...
Volumteer Marine Rescue Building at sunrise...
Pelicans on the boat ramp...
Night shot of a moored yacht...
The enclosed swimming area...
The boardwalk at the Jetty...
Sunset from the old Jetty...
Rebuilding the public jetty...
The newly rebuilt public jetty...
Looking from Calypso Bay towards Jacobs Well Jetty...
The Mural on the side of the Jacobs Well Tavern...
The Free bus drops off another load of patrons...
A common flower in the area...
Even in the midst of earthworks you can find simple beauty...
Machinery at the ready in the new estate...
Looking over the back fence at the new estate...
Mucking around with a pic of my truck under a rainbow beside the lakes...
The lights of the Gold Coast when looking south over the lakes at Calypso Bay...
Sunset beside the lakes...
Boardwalk at the Calypso Bay Marina...
Boats at the Marina...
Moonrise over the marina...
Sunset over the Calypso Bay Marina...
A rare sunset light show over the canefields ...
Another sunset over the canefields...
An old abandoned windmill...
Sunset over a canal...
sunset through the trees...
The neighbours get into the Xmas spirit...
Canefields rainbow...
Sugar Cane Fields with a storm approaching...
Cane Harvesting...
The old style burning of the cane is pretty rare now...
Bailing up the leftovers for mulch is a recent thing...
Rocky Point sugar mill...
An old abandoned farmhouse in the cane fields...
Gold Coast lights up the horizon behind the farmhouse tree...
An old shed in the canefields...
An old delapidated bridge leading to an old house
A genuine Jacobs Well Outhouse...
Some of the local Wildlife...
Green Tree Frog...
Cane Toad
Rainbow Lorikeet...
Gecko...
Gecko on the window...
Green Tree Snake...
A pheasant Coucal caught in mid flight over the canefields...
A colourful moth ...
Spider and a Grub...
Nankang Kestrel...
Black shouldered Kite...
The local Cemetery...
moonrise at sunset over the cemetery...
