to the lighthouses

another thought (probably spurious) we had about travelling, was to visit all of australia's  lighthouses

an index to australia's lighthouses

the souvenir for lighthouses seems to be spoons ... when we visited Mallacoota, we were bounded by lighthouses 

the offshore lighthouse on Gabo Island, at the meeting point of the Southern and Pacific Oceans, and Point Hicks, the south-western most point on the mainland that Captain Cook saw from the Endeavour ...

as well as lighthouses, it would also be nice to visit Big Things (hello Big Galah in Kimba), as well as landscape sculpture ... large sculptures in the landscape, like the giant Spinifex by Corey Thomas, located in the sand dunes to the north of Point Hicks in Croajingolong National Park
 

Victoria

South Australia

Giant Lobster, Kingston - near Point Jaffa lighthouse

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Tasmania

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travel by tea towel (part 2) - australia all over

i don't want to buy hundreds of vintage/retro/souvenir tea towels, so instead of paying $10.50 per tea towel, i might document some of the nicer designs

 

 

travel by tea towel

we have a few souvenir tea towels

one of my favourites is of orange crayfish and seashells on a blue background (similar to the tea towel on the left)

it says, 
Greetings from Hook Is Observatory

I had never heard of Hook Island - but I soon found out it is part of the Whitsundays and I immediately wanted to go there (there was a rudimentary resort there but it has been closed for the past few years)

It gave me the idea of visiting our tea towels- we bought our Bicheno tea towel (same design as on the left) while on pre-moon in Tasmania

The Queensland State Library has a souvenir tea towel collection  - (worth a visit next time we're there)

 

   

(I'm not above making some preemptive purchases (Yappoon pineapples, Iluka fish)
I would love a tea towel from kimba (the big galah) and parkes (the dish) and whale sharks at ningaoloo reef... hard to find doing Google image searches, but i'm sure they exist

I have to say, it makes me sad to see "re-purposed" tea towels.  It is true that using tea towels soon fades the textiles.  We use ours as curtains.

although, there is some lovely use of tea towels in art / craft,

for example, jo grant's tea towel works ... / jo grant website

I also read about an artist (Julie Paterson) who makes her own postcards when she visits a place ...

So my idea is .... what if I made my own tea towels after visiting a new town, city, suburb ...

some amusing tea towels i found in my travels
Everingham + Watson tea towels / Sunny boy tea towel / Kookaburras

wonderful designs from yellow studio freeo