Places and spaces – little discoveries

One of my favourite things here – discovering little hidden secret wonderful magic spaces like used books shop with fat cats or sushi burgers place.

When I was child we used to have chairs like these.

A magic curiosity shop full of optical wonders, Victorian style paper toys, handmade theatre puppets.

Most of pictures are made by my mum when she was visiting us. It was very nice to walk together and finding those great places.

A shop’s owner with a brooch with moving eyes.

Other inhabitants of the shop.

Everytime I pass, Batman is doing something different, a very busy guy.

 

 

 

A palm tree inside the house.

Some characters in the street.

Little garden in a busy street.

Design shop in used-to-be garage.

Fight (or love?) of pigeons. Another bookshop in another garage with another cats.

A window from the past.

The Great Ocean Road

One weekend we went for a ride by the ocean.

All towns there are for the surfers.

-What’s for dinner?
-The one on the left. Or should we have both?

Iluka means “by the sea” in some native language.

Local jungle.

As soon as you step into the forest you can feel damp and chill. We thought it’s going to be a terrible cold night.

But it wasn’t that bad elsewhere.

Possum on the stub and very architectural plants.

Later on we saw a koala above the road.

Very expressive creature.

We have already been at this camp ground.

We walked a couple of kilometres towards the sea.

The beauty with earrings.

Laurius is making dinner.

Low tide. White line a bit further – the birds.

Next morning we continued our trip.

So true 🙂

The story behind this photo is this. My mother was taking a photo of us and didn’t see the wave coming, but we did

Luckily she was able to get away with dry feet.

Posing next to the twelve apostles.

There have been few shipwrecks on these shores.

A little walk in St. Kilda

One sunny afternoon I went to the shop and on my way I took some pictures of Art Deco buildings for my friend and other things at the seaside.

St. Kilda Sea Baths now.

 

 

And then.

Some lovely houses.

You can read about this here.

 

Indian summer – lots of people relaxing at the sea, no one is working 🙂

Kangaroo island

We haven’t been posting here for a while, because my mother is visiting us right now. We enjoy time together instead of sitting at the computer.

When we came to Adelaide, we asked locals where to go, what to see. A lot of them recommended Kangaroo Island.

So here we are on the ferry to KI.

Some sort of Australian Scandinavia.

It was getting dark very fast, and those signs and dead kangaroos by the road didn’t encourage to hurry.

We decided to take a shortcut. Well… not sure did we save any time…

In the camp ground we were alone. Just kangaroos wandering around. And I haven’t seen so many stars in the sky before.

We visited a lake near by.

On Laurius’ birthday we went to the post office where they sold binoculars. So now we have them 🙂

What?

Red-capped plovers by the lake.

The famous Seal Bay.

For a half an hour we were observing the sea lions on the beach with a guide.

When it’s cold sea lions come to the dunes to hide from the wind. Sometimes they even come to the visitor center. Once one sea lion was blocking the entrance to the toilet. It was very inconvenient, the guide said.

On the left – a skeleton of the whale.

Lonely Planet suggested to have some fish burgers in this shop.

Someone stole the crab family. It’s terrible.

We walked some track that leads to the ocean. Really nice place.

But swimming here is really scary.

A chance to have some fun.

Next day we visited one of the famous places in KI. It seams like S. Dali created all this.

No, we are not crazy, it’s modern art.

New Zealand fur seals having fun.

Or sleeping.

Here the seals were lying in the shade.

We visited some little town that was totally empty. Just some lions in the playground.

The town.

Pelicans.

Gulls.

Blue-eyed cormorants.

While waiting for the ferry Laurius hunted this huge gull.

Surfing in S.A. Take 2

It happens so, that second in the row post is about catching the waves. But this time with the evidence.
We came too early, when all long boards were taken. We did a mistake and instead of sunbathing we were struggling with little boards, on which it’s even hard to get on, and waves just wash you off.

Later we finally got proper long boards. That was more like it 😀

Surfing…

The world from the edge of the board.

Catching the wave.

Luka is trying to stand up…

The result – double somersault 🙂

Belly surfing is also awesome.

Done.

Finished.

Laurius was trying to take a photo while riding the wave. Well – photo under water.

Even though, it sores everything – all muscles, eyes hurt by salty water, wind and sun, blisters on palms, sun burnt nose, but still it was fun!