Maroochydore revisited

While on the recent holiday at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, Bill & I spent a day at Maroochydore . Each time I revisit the area I see how it has changed since I was a young child. In fact parts are changing rapidly from year to year.
 I described some of our childhood beach holidays in earlier posts. Here is a photo taken on the Maroochy river in earlier days...

Alan gives Hilary & Lois a ride on the Maroochy river.

The foreshore of the river area has been landscaped and made into an attractive picnic area with bbqs, shelters, playgrounds, etc. They have thoughtfully kept a small area showing how it used to be...

 

 

But most of it looks more like this...

 

 

It is still a great place to sit and enjoy the river view...

 

 

 

Where the river enters the ocean has changed many times. Several huge storms have done much damage to the ocean side  over the years. This is how it looks today...

 

 

That small island in the middle  background used to be part of the mainland and we would walk along the beach to it. After the storms and all the erosion of the sand dunes and beach it is now quite a distance out to sea. In the photo it looks as if joined to land across the other side but it is in fact quite a distance to sea on that side also.

. Some of the erosion shows in this  photo when viewed larger by clicking on it.

 

Some beach has been regained over the years using sandbag groynes  but it only takes  another big storm to alter things again

 

I cant help wondering what these areas will look like in the future when hopefully my grandchildren and their children visit there.