20 May 2011

Tasmania trip part 2

I woke early and did a little pre-breakfast Selby work.

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We drove up (or down?) the coast, stopping briefly at this place because it looked so good.

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This policeman was standing out the front, squeakily waving and freaking everyone out.

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Shy mermaid. The others waited in the car.

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Stopped at some crazy Tessellated rocks. Ah, nature, you crazy thing.

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Ridiculous!

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Speaking of nature, this was an arch or a blowhole, maybe just an arch. We went to a couple of blowholes, but the party was sort of over because they had eroded away to just big, bizarre holes.

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Went for a walk with backwards woman.

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Jake and I strayed to dangerous, non-official lookouts

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to see this! It must be said, there was a perfectly good, safe lookout further on that we should have waited for.

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Another cool thing. Quite spectacular stuff over there, especially considering we were prancing around in the snow the day before.

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Equally as spectacular were these tempura mushrooms. Though we decided they were more just battered mushrooms, they were absolutely delicious!

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Sundown on the way back to the ranch.

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Here I am on the final morning of our stay. I wore this cardigan from Heddie and Peter's collection for our entire stay. Very sad to say goodbye.

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Got right into the swing of things.

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Our final mission was sort of the whole point of our trip: MONA. This place is freakin' incredible! It's hard to describe how huge, epic, weird and funny it is. This water wall dropped all the most googled words. I can't remember the names of any of the artists, sorry.

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This skull is made from beetles and is holding a bird in its mouth.

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This is a mummified cat.

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Gen and Jake checking out a Kandinsky that happened to be in a room with some crazy swinging poles with lights on the end of them.

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I saw a lady asking this sculpture if it was okay

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There was so much stuff there. Our friend Laith even has a picture in there.

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We took a short break for a delicious lunch we had bought from a gourmet deli on the way to the museum, including some of the stinkiest washed rind brie any of us had ever encountered. It smelled terrible.

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There were so many rooms full of crazy stuff this eccentric gambler has bought.

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A highlight was this machine that makes poo. It smelled exactly like the cheese from lunch.

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It has a poo every day at around 3pm. We just missed it!

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Thought Joey might like this one.

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I loved these ancient coins.

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This was the final room. I won't spoil it for you, but it was pretty cool.

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One of many mummies. This is the end of my Tasmanian communication. It was an amazing trip! I have to go to work now.

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