Rob & Liz's Blessed Adventures

Hi lovelies, Another wonderful day in our barefoot travel adventures. This morning we set off to see the Natural History Exhibition at the University of New England.        This display was amazing and well worth the visit.   Everything was so well set out and the labelling made it really easy to find out what was on display.  The was a huge number of different animals on display.   My favourite was the was “lace fish”.   Now I know this is not the correct name, but we cannot read the photo we took of the sign.    Don’t you think it looks like a crocheted piece of artwork.   Simply amazing. The display included marine life, Native and introduced animals. Birds   There were even amenities for the dinosaurs.   Our next trip took us to the Museum of Antiquities, which is also on the Uni campus. The history displayed in this museum was also amazing.  ...

We today we ventured about Armidale on foot. We started at the markets having a look see at what they had at the farmers market. A few marketers so not much to see today really. Off we walked around town to see the historical sights. Lots of old buildings from the early days.  In Armidale 100 years ago you had a choice of 21 Hotels!! Today there are 9. Sorry beer lovers. The original Bank of NSW  These guys had a 4 displays of miniature figurines- really cool Baptist Church  Lots of churches within cooee of each other ; Catholic, C of E, Pressy, and Baptist. Lovely old buildings to be admired. Catholic Church grounds - Large area. Home to the St Ursuline Convent Pressy Church Town Hall Court House This Celtic cross was erected to commemorate the first Christian service held here in 1845. A walk through Central Park we came across some structures to commemorate efforts of soldiers in wars. Bore war memorial band ro...

Hi lovelies, Another 2 day catch up – so sorry.   I was so busy doing my art journal that the time got away from me.   Life is truly hard. Yesterday we went for a drive to see The Australian Standing Stones.   It was really quite an impressive set up.     This weekend in Glen Innis is the “Fans of Outlander” gathering.   As they were setting up for the weekends festivities it was a little hard to get a photo without a tent in it.     We then went for a wander up the hill behind the stones to a lookout.   I do find it amazing that you can always find something that will set one town apart from another at these lookouts.    We then took   short drive to Red Ridge.   We had no idea what we would find, but did not expect to find some magnificent turkeys. Home for lunch and a short nap.   Then while Robbie did some computer stuff I spent the afternoon working on my journal ...