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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Museum of South Australia

Another favourite thing of mine to do in Adelaide is drink coffee, there are lots of great places to do that. But, sometimes you also need to make yourself earn it so we went to the South Australian Museum, a really fun place to go. Although some of the displays are exactly the same as when I was there about ten years ago, which is a little sad, maybe I just caught them in the loop of exhibits or maybe they just don't get enough funding to change things.... I'll never know I guess, but it is still a nice place to visit, in really pretty surrounds on North Terrace.


A flying turtle


There are many indigenous peoples displays









but my favourite is always the taxidermy area.





This map shows all the aboriginal tribal divisions within Australia.

To show you the diversity in just the SE of the country I zoomed in a little.

Great white shark teeth, they just keep on coming.

Excuse me? Can I have some cheese? Please.

Heck even Australian hand driers have animals using them!

Friday, October 04, 2013

Ireland - Inishmore

This year for Majowka, the national holiday period at the start of May, we went off to Sunny Ireland for a reunion of sorts with the country where we met. We landed in Dublin and drove over to Galway the next day we headed here to Inishmore, an island of Ireland in a group of islands towards Iceland. :) Yes, that was my attempt at a tongue twister. The Aran Islands it shall be today.

 
The main ferry landing site and beach.

Wanting an Aran Island sweater?

It is really soft.



Celtic cross

Not so lucky star bar.






high strolling.






a pint of another new love, Smithwicks.

Leave nothing but footprints, that means you too seagulls.

Welk it is a pleasure to meet you.

Crab of a day.

Why did the rock blush, because the sea weed. haha.



A great isle for contemplation







Aran Islands are a small group to the West of Ireland and a really lovely place to visit, I would think it is a great place to stay for some time, contemplate, write a book, paint, draw or just generally let your brain do brain things. If you get the chance I recommend you jump aboard a ferry and head there. I doub't you'll be disappointed. You might even get lucky like us and get some fabulous sunshine, even if it was blowing a gale.