There was a great turnout tonight for the 2010 Australia Day fireworks show on Yeppoon main beach. Every year, Ergon Energy sponsors the fireworks, which generally start at around 7:45pm and last for 10-15 minutes.
On past Australia Days the fireworks have been launched from a boat anchored just off the main beach, but this year all the action took place at the northern end of Main Beach (near the Surf Lifesaver building). Event organisers and SES personnel made sure the crowd stayed well back from the launch trailer.
Below are some additional pictures of the fireworks display. I took almost a hundred photos, but the lack of a tripod meant that only 20-30% turned out ok.
From 9am on Tuesday morning to 9am on Wednesday morning, Yeppoon and surrounding districts had over 80.6mm, or 3.1 inches of rain. This is enough to flush out all the creeks and leave a lot of water lying around on the ground, but so far there has been no major flooding like in February 2008.
The Capricornia district forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology has this to say about Wednesday and the days ahead:
CAPRICORNIA DISTRICT
Outlook for Wednseday: Rain areas. Isolated thunderstorms. Moderate to heavy falls possible. Moderate
NW to NE winds, shifting W to SW inland during the day.
Outlook for Thursday: Scattered coastal showers, more isolated inland.
Outlook for Friday: Scattered coastal showers, isolated inland. Late rain.
YeppoonInfo.com will keep you updated on any weather developments in the area.
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.
