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New South Wales Adventures - Armidale

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.  The cabinets were filled with artifacts from so many different civilizations and the narration for each section was very informative.  





Then it was a short 20 minute drive to see Bakers Creek Falls.  The lookout for these falls is very very high.  I did hold it together, with the assistance of my gorgeous hubby. It really was an amazing sight, but not too close to the edge.  



Then because my nerves apparently had not been stretched enough we went off to Metz Gorge.  The name really should have warned us.  It was very very very high.  I again did not venture too close to the edge, but it was cool to see remains from what we assume is an old goldmine.  



 Back to the van for lunch and then off to the Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place.  This too was really interesting.  There was an exhibition on featuring art works from 3 local painters.  They are also doing some major renovations which are due to open in November.  No photos were allowed in the gallery so you will just have to take my word for the fact that some of the paintings were amazing.

From there we ventured to the Armidale Folk Museum.
 
This had some wonderful antiques an local history.  I was again amazed that each of these musems house something different.


 
For me the favourite this time was a display of tea cups designed for men with mustaches.  This one would suit my Andy very well don't you think?

All for tonight lovelies,

Keep enjoying life.

Rob and Lizzy

PS - flower of the day for those who are playing



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