At Liane’s suggestion we made a stop at the restored Wisanger School that Rick had not known about. I was skeptical, D was not, she was right.
The front door was open and the interior was a nice little museum …
with some period writing tools…
rather explicit instructions for teachers…
and a modern resident, a huntsman spider. Worth an Ai look.
We moved on to Kingscote, where we saw some Australian black swans and Australian Pelicans…
did a stroll through the Encounter Marine Park…
and admired the mural on this old grain silo and shed.
Next stop was Pelican Lagoon for some fine beach scenes…
and then D’Estrees Bay…
where we saw more of the perished fish that have been on all of the beaches here – caused by a toxic micro-algae bloom.
The bloom has disappeared with the colder weather and wind of approaching winter, but it had killed a lot of fish, by clogging up their gills.
We had a lunch there (sampled some kangaroo meat, like beef but darker, more dense, and with a slightly sharper flavor), dropped by the place Rick was building nearby (with creative solar and rainwater collection), and then went on to the Kingscote airport, did thanks and farewells to Rick, agent-checked our bags, and encamped at our departure gate, where there were USBC recharging outlets but no working security checking equipment (or maybe not used?) – haven’t seen that anywhere since 9/11.
The flight was so short that the FAs started the cookie service as soon as we hit cruising altitude and the pilot ordered prep for landing as soon as they finished. At the Adelaide airport our uniform driver Ajit met us at baggage claim and drove us to the Mayfair where we checked in (Rm 1101, same one we had before).
Good news: the Ipad had arrived. I did some blogging on it, D announced that she was not hungry, and since I really wasn’t either I munched on some chips, an apple, and trail mix, and then went down to the “business center” (little room with two computers and a phone) to load the images and finish the previous day’s blog.
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Wisanger school days sounded rather grim for students (reading the small note in the drawer about punishment) and for the teachers. I’ve never known about black swans–so elegant. The toxic micro-algae bloom is distressing to hear about. Good new, indeed, of your reunion with your iPad!
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Thanks Janet. Yeah we’ve seen the swans elsewhere as well. They do amazing long dips with their heads, to the point that they just look like blobs and you don’t realize they’re swans. The fish dieoff is indeed a mess – I felt I had to mention it.
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