Denmark and a memorial of lights – Day 6

Today we visited Denmark and were nowhere near the Baltic. It is a small town about forty miles west from Albany. It sits on a gently flowing river about a mile from a spectacular bay with sand bars and breakers. One of the features of the river is a large colony of pelicans. While I was trying to photograph them, one adroitly dived into the river, took a fish in its commodious beak and promptly swallowed it.

As you can see Marion enjoyed the lovely views and bracing sea air. Once again the sun failed to make an appearance.

On our return to Albany I decided to walk to the ANZAC museum to investigate the features that I had missed because of the rain yesterday. I also gave me the opportunity to photograph the distinct architecture of the museum for the first time. From the outside the prominence of the window framing the bay is clear. There was also much to see in the grounds.

The fort had been built at the end of the Nineteenth Century, when the individual Australian States financed it as a necessary protection against aggressors. This action was reckoned to be a prelude to the states coming together to found Australia. 

In the grounds of the museum is a beautiful memorial in the form of a field of lights designed by a British artist Bruce Munro. This is thousands of tiny lights on thin stalks that waved in the breeze, and changed colours to form waves of light. The colours symbolised the wildflowers of the area that were blooming when the two ANZAC convoys left for Europe. My photo does not do this justice as the camera over-compensates for the darkness.

Today’s new menu item, kangaroo, I am eating my way through Australian animals. My comment is that it has a great texture but is a little tasteless, so the spices it was served with complemented it perfectly.