SUN Aboriginal Museum

Continuing at the Melbourne Museum and they have a very diverse exhibit titled "first peoples"

An interesting, for me anyway, exhibit about making blankets etc out of animal skins and so on. I think sometime I slip into the idea that somehow they did not have any tech. That they ran around naked and stood on one leg holding a spear. That kind of was the extent of my knowledge about the aboriginal people. 

This exhibition brings home to me a much deeper story both about their technology and the unbelievable cruelty perpetrated on them by colonial ancestors. 

I recall previously discovering about the deliberate biological attack via small pox laced blankets. Also there's innumerable untold stories of Aboriginals displaced by cattle and then being hunted down.

The question for me now is how do we all move ahead. 

We can't undo the past but it does impact the present and therefore the future. 

SATURDAY Post HOTY

Dinner was interesting. Main course was select from share plates but the individual plates were tiny (saucers). Desert came on huge plates. 

Wasn't us but shows teamwork to put boats on trailers

SATURDAY HOTY

SATURDAY

5:30 rise shine

6:30 Breakfast

We bring Arny, Will and myself walked to Degraves laneway however Saturday breakfast is at 7:30 so we dejectedly walked towards maccas. Kept an eye out for a Cafe but none were open so it was a sausage and egg mcmuffin. 

7:16 pack stuff

8:00 walk out

8:30 Flinders St station meet up. 

Sunscreen

Camera

Tripod

Tape, water, socks.

The shoes were already in the boat. 

We did a warm up. Lunges, sqats and what not. Got the heart rate up. 

SUN Melbourne Museum

SUNDAY 26 November

Breakfast with Will at a laneway cafe. 

I guess my diet starts tomorrow. 

Back to the hotel. Final pack and check out. 

Decided to drop into a church. 

Interesting they had all the kids kneel for a prayer and then zip out for a kids activity while the sermon was on then come back in for a bit of show and tell before communion. 

MUSEUM OF MELBOURNE 

Lego "Relics". 

The premise is a post apocalyptic world where people have vanished and little Lego creatures inhabit the planet. Incredibly detailed. You can stare at a display and see lots of detail. The displays go a long way back. Of course there's a DIY corner to keep kids busy. 

I used to buy these magazines 🤣

2023 HOTY practice

Down in Melbourne. Tomorrow we row in the Head Of The Yarra. (HOTY)

Today we met at Hawthorne and took our boat off the trailer and put it together. Then we rowed it down stream to the city.  Then onto check out Chloe and have a pub burger for lunch.

https://youtu.be/DrnPCa8nNhg?si=ZAaFjtXK6gjJ5_iR

Mentally feeling good. It's nice doing exercise and being with people.   It's nice having someone back home who loves me. Someone I can share a text or call up on the phone.

 I do muse about my personality shortcomings and those of others and it seems a significant number of us guys have gone through divorce. What is it that brings people together and then pushes them apart. 

Friday HOTY

5:30 rise and shine.

6:30 Breakfast 

7:15 Pack stuff for Hawthorne.

Shoes (don't forget those)

Speaker for tanahill.

Water bottle.

Waterproof bag for phone. 

8:00 tram

8:30 Hawthorn

Unload trailer. 

Rig boats

Practice row downstream to City. 

Ahh no trestles. 

Tried stealing from dragons but they were crap and the boat fell off and damaged it. 

Waiting waiting

Tram ride city to Hawthorne 

THURSDAY

Flew down 

Left bags at hotel. 

Bit of touristing. 

Went to a little museum that had a display to encourage reflection about early/colonial aboriginal experiences.

lunch with Cribby and Cookey at Sezar On Russell St. 

Expensive at $150. Beautiful food and so filling I did not eat any dinner at the old Boys function. 

A bit of a nanna nap

Then onto the Melbourne BGS old boys function.