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emo_snal

Tasmania! Day 1!

Mar 04, 2018 13:46

Monday, February 19th, Devonport - the sky is slate grey and casts a dreary industrial look on the town around the waterfront. Across the estuary the Spirit of Tasmania ferry we'd recently debarked looks like a giant toy with its discordantly optimistic red and white. I'm standing under giant bronze statues of flowers. There's a nearby ( Read more... )

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wpadmirer March 4 2018, 22:20:25 UTC

Tasmania sounds very interesting.

Personally, if I saw a sign that said the plants might kill you, I'd stay far away from them. I wouldn't even think about what they were.

furzicle March 5 2018, 00:21:01 UTC

They were actually all dead and withered!

the_leewit March 5 2018, 00:33:32 UTC

Regarding the poppies--- I've heard bees can make morphine-laced honey from opium poppies. It sounds a little far-fetched, but possible, and I know you can get poisonous honey from toxic plants. Have you had any experience with this? My uncle did have to avoid using honey from one of his hives one year when he noticed the bees acting erratically and some weirdness with the honey, leading him to conclude that they'd gotten in to some marijuana plants, but I haven't done any beekeeping myself...

emo_snal March 5 2018, 07:32:25 UTC

Apparently all or some rhododendrones makes honey that makes you trip out. I think it's not easy to make honey from marijuana that actually has THC in it -- I've heard of people doing it on purpose but they had to work at it, I forget in what way.

the_leewit March 5 2018, 12:33:35 UTC

And here I was seriously thinking about blue morning glories and various cacti... shows all I know about drugs!

emo_snal March 6 2018, 11:34:13 UTC

are blue morning glories hallucinogenic?

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pundigrion March 5 2018, 02:03:17 UTC

How could you not stop in a place called Crusty's Bakery!? That name alone!

ALso, wow I did not expect to see the Chumash mentioned in a post about Tasmania haha. That is the tribe that was local to I used to live in California actually.

I have found lavender ice cream pretty common everywhere I have been with major lavender farming. Lavender shortbread is the other way I see it used.

emo_snal March 5 2018, 07:16:52 UTC

Hahaha no reference is to far out of left field to come up in one of my entries! ;D