Greetings!
Australian museums rock.
The country’s history is chock full of fascinating events,
colorful people, and writers and photographers who captured it.
But it takes really creative curators,
dedicated staff, and generous donors to come up with the museum exhibit designs
we’ve seen on this trip.
Throughout Australia, localities have protected important early
communities and facilities, preserved the records which tell the stories, and
organized volunteers to run the operations.
The larger, more traditional museums in the main cities
coordinate by publishing brochures featuring these resources in thematic
collections, making it easier for visitors to know the geographic and topical
inventory available.
There seems
to not be much of a museum caste system in either governmental or private
resources.
We’re heading southeast of Melbourne toward the coast
again.
Tonight, we had dinner in
K&O’s Bar and Grill in Fish Creek, after spending some time in
Alison Lestor’s home
gallery.
Alison is one of Australia’s
most popular children’s book author, and Pat bought one of her books about
MAcQuarie Island (between Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica).
Having spent time recently in Antarctica, the
drawings, text, and issues in the book were familiar.
As Alison’s also a local surfer, and member of the aptly
named Swell Mamas, seeing her surfboard hanging up in the gallery didn’t hurt
her popularity with me either.
We also checked out the Prom, a peninsula south of here with
granite rocks on coastal mountains overlooking beautiful beaches.
There should be more of that on our
drive to Metung tomorrow.
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