Welcome to Penneshaw, a tiny village of ~500 souls on Kangaroo island South #Australia
11 names on the war memorial 😳
Going for a hike.
Hoping to see wallabies. 😉
Welcome to Penneshaw, a tiny village of ~500 souls on Kangaroo island South #Australia
11 names on the war memorial 😳
Going for a hike.
Hoping to see wallabies. 😉
Spent a happy hour corkscrewing through the stacks at the State Library in #Adelaide South #Australia.
Dieu Et Mon Droit
The battle cry of Richard the Lionheart
Contemporary #art by Gilbert and George hanging adjacent to this magnificent portrait of ‘Farmer George’
😉 in the Art Gallery of South #Australia 🇦🇺 #Adelaide.
A stunning collection of work from 50,000 BCE to the present day.
Gliding into Albany West #Australia 🇦🇺
😌
The ocean swell is 3-4 meters today as we cruise around the Southwest corner of #Australia toward Albany.
The 71,000 ton Zaandam is moving with it and many of the passengers and crew are looking pale.
Art galleries, used record stores and book shops everywhere in Fremantle Western #Australia 🇦🇺
This 🇨🇦 may have died and gone to Heaven. 😂 😉
Street after street lined by historic buildings in #Fremantle Western #Australia 🇦🇺
Not a single example of eyesore modern architecture or bludgeoning corporate signage ANYWHERE.
This city may be the most outstanding example of historic preservation I’ve ever seen. 👍 👍
Post of Elmo saying “That Bunny was amazing. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny!”
Post of Jake Paul telling people to turn off the tv at the half time show
Be like Elmo. Don’t be like Jake Paul. #BadBunny #SuperBowl
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Spent a happy morning at the #aquarium in Cairns Australia 🇦🇺 looking at their collection of strange and beautiful fish.
🐟
The tanks hold a massive amount of water 💦 so am wondering 🤔 if they ever spring a leak?
😉 🤷♂️
Barron Falls near Cairns #Australia 🇦🇺
#Sublime
Following an amazing trip thru the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea
the Zaandam docked in Cairns #Australia this AM.
Yay! 😅
Heading up thru rainforest on the Skyrail to the mountain resort town of Kuranda this AM
My family moved to #Alberta in 1903.
When travelling in the South Pacific Emergency Consular Services are available at both British High Commissions 🇬🇧 and Australian Embassies. 🇦🇺
You cannot beat a #Canada passport,
possibly the best in the world? 🌎 👍
Ekasup is the name of a village deep in the jungle of Vanuatu 🇻🇺
#FirstContact
My first contact with a Stone Age tribe on Vanuatu 🇻🇺 got off to a poor start.
The head man in the village told me they ate the first Christian Missionary they encountered in the 1850s… 😳
#cannibals
On the war memorial in #NewCaledonia the name of Melam Baouma, a soldier of #France, who obviously didn’t stay ‘far behind the front lines’ fighting with the #USA in #Afghanistan 🤨
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Stopped to pay my respects to the war dead of our ally #France in Noumea #NewCaledonia today.
500+ names 1914-18 on the memorial for the “war to end all wars”, or as #Canadian author Margaret MacMillan put it:
The War That Ended The Peace
Epic
The South Pacific is truly vast.
My condolences on losing your friend.
😔
Rugby; 🏉 a game for hooligans played by gentleman.
#Fiji 🇫🇯 is one of the rugby playing nations.
A fast moving hard hitting #sport played without protective gear and none of the incessant stoppages in #play that
makes #American #football so
bloody boring! 🥱
I found a #Canadian connection in Thurston Park Suva #Fiji.
A monument dedicated to the memory of O.J. Marks, of Marks and Co. who drowned in the St. Lawrence River in the disastrous sinking of the Empress of #Ireland.
Read about it and weep 😪
BTW the water fountain still works.
Yay 😅
Travelling and looking for strong WiFi?
Check out the local #library, even one that still has its old card catalogue. 😂
🤔
Without checking Google your trivia question for today is:
How many libraries around the world were funded by Andrew Carnegie?
Alberta's Risky Experiment to Sell Bitumen on World Markets
As China and India rapidly accelerate the electrification of their economies, Danielle Smith somehow thinks she'll sell them more oil.
She's delusional.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/PulRlAfKH8s
#Cdnpoli #USpoli
Something to keep in mind.
Made a pilgrimage to the house of Robert Louis Stephenson in Apia #Samoa, another one of my heroes.
IMHO this bronze statue is artwork of the highest quality.
I can just him sitting at his desk writing..
✍️
“Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter is home from the hill.”
It’s striking how, in the space of a year, the self-proclaimed democratic light on the hill has allowed itself to descend into a lawless dictatorship.
🤷🏼🇺🇸🤷🏼
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Next stop for me will be Cook’s Monument on the Big Island of #Hawaii.
TBH he’s one of my heroes. 🤷♂️
History’s greatest navigator/explorer worked his way up from very humble beginnings and poverty in #Yorkshire.
His advancement and accomplishments in the Royal Navy were entirely due to #merit.
A statue of King Kamehameha I in front of the Hawaiian Supreme Court
In the early 1800s he united this archipelago into a unified kingdom.
In the 1890s American planters led by the Dole family staged a coup d’état and overthrew the government, leading to the annexation of #Hawaii by 🇺🇸 in 1893.
🤔
As the article states #Canada 🇨🇦 would be a stable, reliable and congenial host.
Cashing in on the #NewYork real estate and moving #UnitedNations HQ north of the border might also be quite cost effective. 😉
