Unexpected Whale Watching Holiday

Recently we had a weekend away at the Sunshine Coast staying at Santorini Twin Waters which is right across the road from Mudjimba Beach. While we weren't expecting it we spent a large part of our time there watching the Whales migrate south from our balcony. I see dolphins all the time at Bribie Island where I live but had never seen a whale before this. What an experience. They were breaching like crazy out there. I mentioned it to the hotel receptionist and they just said "Oh yeah we see them all the time".

Later in the day when we thought that we'd had just about enough Whale watching we went to Point Arkwright where we were witness to 2 Whales frollicking just metres off the point. What an awesome holiday it was.

Have Just Finished Designing 3 New Sites

If you have been wondering why this blog hasn't been updated for a while then check out these 3 sites which have been keeping me fairly busy and have all just been released :-

Noosa Realty Service - Noosa Real Estate Agency website.
Farm Fantastic - Caboolture Rural and Lifestyle Expo website.
Craftpak - Redcliffe based packaging and gift box company website.

Keep an eye out for more posts as the year winds down and I catch up on a few months worth of choice web goodness.

Sunball Solar Power Source Winner of New Inventors Peoples Choice Award 2005

The excellent ABC program New Inventors have just announced the winners of their annual awards. The Sunball is a very clever invention from a company in Victoria, Australia called Green and Gold Energy. Basically it is a solar power source designed for domestic rooftops which refracts the sun’s light through a wide lens concentrating it into a small number of solar cells. It is set up to track the sun as it moves across the sky. From the outside it looks like a glass hemisphere sitting on the top of your roof.

By reducing the number of solar cells required it reduces the cost signicantly in comparison to conventional solar panels. It will be interesting to see how this goes once it reaches the market. Their target retail price for a 330 W / 660kWh, 1 metre² SunBall™ is $1,467 Australian Dollars ( roughly $1,080 US ).