Monday, June 22, 2009

Made it to LA

Am now waiting for my flight to Houston....Brisbane was wet and rainy but good all the same

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Alice Springs

it is Friday afternoon and I am in a cyber cafe in Alice springs so will keep this short and sweet...has been awesome....monday went to the Didgeridoo class and the incredible sounds of the outback didgeridoo show that evening.....ate at the red ochre cafe...then tuesday went to the Desert Park and took a class with aboriginal women...bushtucker...beanies and basket making...and the park was great...we then drove to Erldunda...where we stayed at a bed and breakfast...(ie a cattle station in the desert) woke up the next day and drove out to ULURU...where we walked around the Rock..went in to the culutral center...and watched sunset on the Rock...then drove back to Erldunda...seeing dingos and kangaroos in the night.... yesterday we drove back to Alice Springs...and went to the Adelaide House...the alice springs house where the flying doctors were started....learned about the radios etc...and took a sunset camel ride...learned lots of course....today have been mailing books to myself...gone into some museums here in alice springs...and making use of the cyber cafe...tomorrow I fly to Brisbane....will be there 2 nights and a day and then I will fly home via los angeles....


Sunday, June 14, 2009

Alice Springs

am off to the airport to fly to alice springs today...... tomorrow I will be headed for Uluru and then back to alice springs....I have arranged a place to stay half way in between at an old cattle station...so will get another view of history from that perspective.....
am not sure how much internet access I will have the coming week....I am not expecting much...as I will be in the red centre....


Saturday, June 13, 2009

Saturday

Today was busy and so informative....went to the central market....farmers market....and all kinds of international foods...smells and food and noise....excitement in the air...from there we went to the South Australian Museum.....to look at their 2 floors of Aboriginal Collections...the largest in Australia...it was beyond description.....I learned so much about the string games the children played...how the elders used them to help them remember and tell the stories...the dreaming stories...... and the things string was made of....fibers from plants....animals and human hair...... I learned much about food aabout adhesives....different tribes and their lifestyles...and the effects of european contact..... was an incredilbe exhibition.....
also went to the Blue Sheep shop....then to Semaphore....a little town at port adelaide that in its hayday was the port for wool like galveston was for cotton..... with all its wool store houses now being converted into shops and apartments....
The weather was warmer today

Friday, June 12, 2009

Friday

today was another outing...much by road...in cold cold south australia....went down to Victor Habour....and Port Eliot and to the land where there was the highest concentration of Aboriginals....the Coorang..... to Goolwa  went there via mt. compass..... had fish and chips at the flying fish in horseshoe harbour and saw the wildlife at the Urimbirra Wildlife Experience....saw the Whale Center...though not time for Whales in the Harbour til next month...and saw where the Fairy Penguins come out at night...but was there during the day....
saw the mouth of the Murray River...and the Bridge that was built despite protest by the indigenous people about destruction of their sacred lands.....