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РусскийMiddle Ages, that left Europe with heaps of what today is mainly used as tourists attractions, did not happen to Australia. Well, the Black Death and other little happinesses of these times such as inquisition and accompanying obscurantism did not happen here too, which is some sort of luck. But Black Death is gone (forever, hopefully, despite humans keep inventing new methods of reducing its population) and Acropolis in Greece, Stonehenge in UK are left. In comparison, Down Under can offer something even more ancient - aboriginal engravings, some of which can even be found in Sydney and which age can sometimes be compared with fossil mammoth’s shit. May be, this is the reason why they did not attract crowds of tourists yet.
Things aren’t better with architectural masterpieces. Want to see baroque, renaissance, Gothic or whatever it is called - there is Versailles, Saint-Petersburg and German castles. But those who say there aren’t many historic places in Down Under are wrong - they are almost everywhere, one just need to have a look around. For example, take a look at this panoramic picture I took in one of sought after locations in Woolloomooloo
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РусскийThose who get to Australia first may notice certain lack of creativity in how Australians give names to streets, roads and other geographical objects. Similar names happen quite often, but, from the other side, this is not uncommon at all - I can remember Finland with their Kirkkokatu or Linnankatu in every small town, but Australia seems especially passionate about a few historical names. That is, Macquarie street is found in almost all Sydney’s suburbs, not mentioning famous Mrs Macquarie chair (remember spectacular Sydney’s NY fireworks photos?) and Macquarie Uni. And this is understandable - he happened to be the first Grosvenor of the colony and with no doubts should be threated with all possible respect. Names of other political persons as Banks, Hume, and, of course, Her Majesty are not less popular. Surprisingly, name of capt. La Perouse whose main achievement was arriving a few weeks after capt Cook is remembered more often than a Cook’s name itself. But I wanted to tell about other person from Australia’s history who’s now even got a whole national park named after him.
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РусскийI already mentioned in one of my early posts that traveling in a car is probably the best way to travel at all as one in a car has a great freedom of altering the route and stopping everywhere she or he likes. For example, a few years ago we were crossing Finland from North to South and we had to stop at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere. We spent two hours at that place which turned to be a biggest bell museum I have ever seen (I will write about it eventually).
Of course, most of places like that are well-know and there is tons of information about the in Internet or, at least, in tourists booklets and it is possible to find them all when planning the trip, classify them, draw a route and make a schedule. But this just would not work - as I already mentioned, schedule and a good holiday cannot go together. In any case, it is not possible to plan everything.
And this is what happened to us in Mogo. We were just overwhelmed by its exciting zoo and it seemed there was nothing similarly exciting. Well, there was another surprise. They have got the Museum there!
Hopefully, it is not an inquisition museum. This is Gold Rush Theme Park, or Old Mogo Town
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