Category: 2023 02 Oz
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A museum of “Miles outside of the box” thinkers.
While the Steampunk Headquarters in Oamaru was utterly bizarre, the MONA museum in Hobart is, in our opinion, a deliberate pushing of the boundary of what can legitimately be called “art”. It is a full on assault on that boundary. We laughed as much as we screwed up our faces. Occasionally we were astonished at…
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The pinnacle of cute.
We headed upstream to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, to fulfill one of Bernie’s life dreams. There were other cute critters there: Other critters were not quite so cute and cuddly.
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🎶 Like a bat out of hell…
We had to think of the classic Meatloaf song (and album cover) as we watched bats playing in the sunset.
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Chicago in the tropics.
Brisbane is pretty amazing for people that love urban life. An obviously prosperous place (we counted 15 cranes from where we ate dinner one night), it has and is investing heavily in infrastructure with an emphasis on paths for walking, biking and the ever-present e-scooters. We get the feeling if one lived in the right…