Snowflakes and Photos
Well, I turned into a bit of a snowflake with the 
snowflake_challenge and melted, maybe next year I'll try again with a bit more success! Some of the Challenges just weren't for me though, but then others were quite interesting.
This lot is a bit of a departure from the normal mass of native birds and animals because when family managed to get here for Christmas we did a couple of day trips out and, of course, I photographed the experience.
So, first up we did a tour of the Old Adelaide Goal. It was built in 1841 and ceased operation in 1988, now it's a museum and there are ghost tours because apparently there are a lot of ghosts that hang about in the corridors and cells. And no, that's not a ghost going out for a breath of fresh air.
A view between the inner and outer wall, where most executed prisoners were buried, and the execution tower.
Barbed wire
And a typical prison cell
And on to something a bit more cheerful, I mean we found the prison very interesting but there's a limit to the amount of interesting photos you can take of prison cells etc.
Australia seems to have this thing about big things. We have The Big Pineapple, The Big Boxing Crocodile at a place called Humpty Doo (don't you just love it!) and The Big Banana amongst a plethora of other 'big' attractions in just about every part of the country. Here we have:
The Big Rocking Horse
It includes toy factory that makes all kinds of wonderful wooden toys and other touristy stuff. That's my son-in-law just about to throw my oldest grandson from the horse's back. You can go right up to the top of the horse's head.
There's also a small animal park attached with some quite interesting animals in it.
Goats
The Australian white ibis, which also goes by the unflattering nickname of 'bin chicken' for its propensity to act like an overgrown seagull and scrounge around rubbish bins for food, even taking food right out of your hand, which can tend to be a bit dangerous (to you, not them) as they are not small birds. Oh, and in large groups they smell terribly. But I think they look quite impressive.
This was a chick following its mother with great determination and mum was getting a bit fed up I suspect.
A couple in flight
There was a male peacock in all his glory
and a female with her babies
The little ones were gorgeous
Last but not least, there were kangaroos
My son feeding one and giving it some love.
I'll leave you with the moon through our leylandii tree and a pink sunset cloud
And Misty cat, who got so tattered and matted that she had to have a complete make over, e.g. completely shaved apart from her tail and legs so that now she looks quite like she is wearing legwarmers and a rather strange hat.
Her pre-shaved look cuddling with Ari
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snowflake_challenge and melted, maybe next year I'll try again with a bit more success! Some of the Challenges just weren't for me though, but then others were quite interesting.
This lot is a bit of a departure from the normal mass of native birds and animals because when family managed to get here for Christmas we did a couple of day trips out and, of course, I photographed the experience.
So, first up we did a tour of the Old Adelaide Goal. It was built in 1841 and ceased operation in 1988, now it's a museum and there are ghost tours because apparently there are a lot of ghosts that hang about in the corridors and cells. And no, that's not a ghost going out for a breath of fresh air.
A view between the inner and outer wall, where most executed prisoners were buried, and the execution tower.
Barbed wire
And a typical prison cell
And on to something a bit more cheerful, I mean we found the prison very interesting but there's a limit to the amount of interesting photos you can take of prison cells etc.
Australia seems to have this thing about big things. We have The Big Pineapple, The Big Boxing Crocodile at a place called Humpty Doo (don't you just love it!) and The Big Banana amongst a plethora of other 'big' attractions in just about every part of the country. Here we have:
The Big Rocking Horse
It includes toy factory that makes all kinds of wonderful wooden toys and other touristy stuff. That's my son-in-law just about to throw my oldest grandson from the horse's back. You can go right up to the top of the horse's head.
There's also a small animal park attached with some quite interesting animals in it.
Goats
The Australian white ibis, which also goes by the unflattering nickname of 'bin chicken' for its propensity to act like an overgrown seagull and scrounge around rubbish bins for food, even taking food right out of your hand, which can tend to be a bit dangerous (to you, not them) as they are not small birds. Oh, and in large groups they smell terribly. But I think they look quite impressive.
This was a chick following its mother with great determination and mum was getting a bit fed up I suspect.
A couple in flight
There was a male peacock in all his glory
and a female with her babies
The little ones were gorgeous
Last but not least, there were kangaroos
My son feeding one and giving it some love.
I'll leave you with the moon through our leylandii tree and a pink sunset cloud
And Misty cat, who got so tattered and matted that she had to have a complete make over, e.g. completely shaved apart from her tail and legs so that now she looks quite like she is wearing legwarmers and a rather strange hat.
Her pre-shaved look cuddling with Ari
This entry was originally posted at https://margaret-r.dreamwidth.org/47375.html. Please comment there using OpenID.