Tiki Tour back day 2 and a half

We continued our morning doing Adventure Labs at the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens in the Children's Zoo. They have some native animals and domestic animals and lots of birds.

Sleepy dingos

The back end of a Wombat

Wombat on his rounds 

That is all the zoo photos I took - do I hear a big sigh of relief?

I forgot this photo before, it was in the Memorial Garden and is the Jolly Swagman. Although he didn't look too jolly to me!!

So off to Melbourne we drove, one geocache was captured on the way.

An old tree stump on the side of the road.

We stayed overnight at the airport and then had to say goodbye the next morning - something I have done lots since I have lived in Aus, but it never gets easier!

That is all the Tiki tour photos, I will organise some Baradine photos and shopping photos soonish.

Happy sewing.

Tiki tour back 2

We stayed the night in Wagga Wagga at a lovely hotel, the next morning we headed out early to do an Adventure Lab, that was near the hotel 

These were painted on buildings in a lane behind the main street.

From there we went back to the hotel and packed up the car and drove to the next Ad Lab

This one was all about memorials

This was an amazing shop sculpture of a soldier on a horse pulling up another soldier

The memorial and eternal flame were being painted by men from correctional services in readiness for this year's ANZAC day.

From here we decided to walk to the next Ad Lab, unfortunately it started at the opposite end of the street to where we were, so we walked along

Stopping to smell the roses.

                                                    And to admire some street sculpture.

This one was all about the sculptures along the street, this was Vince or maybe Victor?

Sadly, I don't remember who this was, although the artist had based all the sculptures on people she had seen walking along the street here.

Some good signs

A lovely old building. 

Painted building we spotted.

Lots of photos here to turn around! Think I will stop here and continue with our last Aventure Lab in another post.

Happy stitching. 

Tiki tour back

We have been heading back down south via some Adventure Labs

We went to the Dubbo Botanic Gardens for the Adventure Lab and started in the Japanese garden

Then off to the dry garden

Back thru the Japanese garden to the Sensory garden

The entrance to the Sensory Garden

We got a cuppa from Press as recommended by Kylie then went to the Yummy Yarn shop also recommended by Kylie, some spending happened there 🤭

Then off we went to Forbes to finish an Ad Lab there

The last place was at the war memorial.

The view was stunning.

We continued on our way, our trip was a little longer as the navigator (me) took a wrong turning and we had to navigate our way back to where we were supposed to be

A small traffic jam on the road

I am off to sort some dinner.

Happy stitching.

Tiki tour to the Zoo

Today we spent the day at Dubbo Zoo. We walked 10km and took about 6 and a quarter hours! We planned to spend 3 hours and then go to the Botanic Gardens. Guess what we are doing tomorrow?

These lovely statues were all over the zoo

People were feeding the giraffe 🦒 so we watched for ages and took many photos - most on the other camera! 

Meerkats

Lunchtime

The hippo was in the water at first but then came out and had a walk around 

White handed gibbon swinging about.

Tassie Devil was doing the rounds of the enclosure.

  we had some fun

We watched the spider monkey's, they were following the keeper who was in a boat going around the monkey islands giving out food.

I think that is enough from me for now

Hope you are still awake!

Happy stitching.