After exploring the countryside around Adelaide over the weekend, today was spent in
the city – not shopping but checking out the sights! After tucking the car away
in a multi story car park (which cost us an arm and a leg) we sauntered across
the road to the Museum. Since it was a few minutes too early for the doors to
open we wandered around taking photos of the buildings and statues.
A water feature held our attention for a few minutes, the
strange shapes, we found out, are supposed to represent segments of back bone
of a whale.
The Adelaide
Museum has a wonderful
collection of Aboriginal artifacts; I was amazed at a small piece of almost
decayed bent twig which was the oldest boomerang that had ever been found. It
looked to be too small and light to have been of much use as a throwing stick
and yet that is what it was. How the finder knew that it was an ancient tool
and not just a very old piece of branch, I really do not know! A collection of
decorated shields made for a good photograph – no flashes were permitted so
this was the best I could do without a tripod.
Leaving the museum we walked down to see the river, on the
way passing the Immigration
Museum. We popped in for
a very quick visit, I found the plaques on the wall that commemorated the movement
of many different people from many different countries of far more interest
than the stuff inside the rooms. The bronze statue of a family on the move was
in the courtyard and of course fell victim to my camera!
Across the river was St Peter’s Cathedral. Since Adelaide is the city of
churches I really wanted to visit at least on of the places of religion before
we left. It really is a beautiful
building – and the inside is magnificent too. The organist was practicing some
dramatic piece of music that shook the stone pillars with its deep and loud
sounds! Colin had to leave because the sound was too much for him! There are
some amazing stained glass windows too and I managed to take a couple of shots
of them by resting the camera on the pews. This photograph of the Cathedral was
taken as I walked from the river towards it.
Before returning to the car we had to take a walk through
the Rundle Mall – the heart of the city where local shoppers and curious
tourists mingle. We had refreshments in an island coffee shop (like a tent in
the middle of the Mall) I had a mixed berry smoothie – I had never had a
smoothie before and it was quite delicious!
My final photo for the day was taken in the Mall of one of
the many street sculptures – there were four pigs but this one appealed to me
the most!
Tomorrow we pack our cases and leave South Australia. We are taking my sister and
her husband due east so they can see where we used to have our farm. We shall
nor go into the farm – we haven’t made contact with the present owner and we
don’t really have time to anyway. However we can give a reasonable idea of what
the size of the land was just by driving around.
AJ
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