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Yeppoon is a large town 40km east of Rockhampton, built right next to the ocean and surrounded by large hills. There are two main shopping centres, Keppel Bay Plaza and Yeppoon Central. Please see the Yeppoon Accommodation page.
Well if you haven’t noticed YeppoonInfo.com now has a brand new design & website, which I think is much better than the old one. The new design has a much more “traditional” look and feel, compared to the very ordinary blog style design that the previous website had. Before I go any further, please have a look at the screenshot below and visit the site!
This new site includes a totally different structure, for example along the top just above the random header image display (which showcases panoramas around the Yeppoon region), there is a places menu listing all the localities in this area. Above that menu are the resource links, which currently include the Yeppoon Events, Yeppoon Photo Panoramas and Yeppoon Accommodation pages. Later on as soon as I can code it, I hope to add a Yeppoon News page which people can subscribe to via email or RSS.
If you have any other suggestions of what to add or what I can change, please don’t hesitate to contact me!
Every year since 1990, the Singapore Armed Forces have been holding training exercises at Shoalwater Bay, a few hours north of Yeppoon. For the last couple of years, the Singapore Armed Forces Music & Drama company (which travels around the world performing for the Singapore Armed Forces), has been coming to Yeppoon & Rockhampton to thank the residents here for their hospitality.
Last night we went to one of the performances in the Yeppoon Town Hall. Entry to the performance was totally free, unlike last year when it was $2. First off, they had a band of string musicians from 7:30PM to 8PM, when the main show started. The main show had lots of dancing, with a live band providing music for some of the acts. The show finished at 9:30PM, so in all there was 2 hours of performing.
There was a mixture of music and performances, ranging from traditional Singaporean music to 1970’s stuff.
One of my favourite acts was this man who was able to copy instruments like the drums and didgeridoo using only his voice. This sport is called beatboxing. In the video I’ve included below, you’ll be amazed at what he can do. There was no accompanying music however.
I managed to take lots of video of the event (1.2GB in all), so I’ve embedded some Youtube videos and photos below. The photos aren’t too good because of the low light. Remember that you can watch the high quality version of the videos by going to the YeppoonInfo Youtube account and selecting the video, then clicking the “high quality” link just underneath it. There are also some videos on that account that I haven’t embedded on this post.
Photo #1 from one of the traditional dances
Photo #2 from one of the traditional dances
Photo #3 from one of the traditional dances
The beatboxing guy who can imitate the didgeridoo and drums with his voice. No extra music added!
A Singaporean traditional song (I think).
One of the very last performances by the Music & Drama company. Costumes were from a ’70s themed part.
Yeppoon Central is the new shopping centre that was opened in Yeppoon around March 2008. Yesterday as we were driving past I decided to take some pictures to make a panorama, and you can see the result at the Yeppoon Central Panorama page. As you can see the stitching is flawless, you can thank Photoshop CS3 for that. I have to confess though that the clouds are fake, the original sky was glary white and I wanted to add some interest. McDonalds can also be seen in the right corner of the shopping centre. They haven’t opened as of the 11th October 2008 but I think they’re going to open really soon.
At the moment the panoramas are only in JPEG format, and there a not many 360 degree views. However I plan to add 360 views in the Quicktime VR format, which allows people to pan and zoom around in a full circle.
Anyway, please have a look at the photo panoramas and tell me which ones you like best. For your information, I photographed most of them using my Canon A720 and the included photo stitching software.
Well today I was very excited to read that Google has launched its street view service, which allows people to view streets as if they’re walking or driving up them, has been launched in Australia. This includes Yeppoon, so I spent some time looking around at all the street view locations. It seems that most of Australia’s medium to large towns and cities are covered, along with major highways. If you go to this address, you can see which parts of Australia are covered.
To see a street view, just go to Google Maps Australia and click the street view tab in the top right corner. If there is street view available in that area the streets will appear outlined in blue. To look at the street using street view, just double click the blue outline.
