Apr 3
The Eucla Museum, in the middle of the Nullarbor Desert, is a single room in the roadhouse motel, between rooms 30 and 31. As I passed late one night, there was a glow from one light. I checked the door to find it open. The Eucla Museum is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
I don’t usually do fakes. But the Stonehenge at Esperance, Western Australia, got me thinking about the value of replicas in museums where the pull of the original object dominates.
Lying awake one night in Robe, South Australia, I remembered this 2008 commercial for Bega Cheese.
You’ve driven hours through crisped, flat land. You’re 400 kilometers from the sea. As you drive into the town of Holbrook, there is HMAS Otway, an 89 meter Oberon-class submarine, concreted into the park.
A Scottish fisherman found the world’s oldest message in a bottle in August last year. It was a drift bottle cast to sea in 1914. An early 19th century data trap, it was part of an old-school crowd-sourced science program. Read more
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