Went back to Alice especially for the beanie festival. The beanie festival aims to support Indigenous women who can knit beanies for income. All are handmade, have crazy cool designs, many have hand spun wool as well.
Found Lou a cat beanie. We were reading the labels of who made what. Just as the lady who made the cat beanie came up to say she was curious who might buy it. Lou has been pretty much wearing this beanie 24 hours since we got it.
Ollie got a beanie with the scarf and mittens all integrated into it. Mine's an Alpine style one with ears. Marie got one with two wooden buttons that somehow works perfectly for her.
Afterwards we went to the Central Australia Museum which recounts the history of the place from the big bang to current times. There's some interesting info on the big bang, then prehistoric times, then some skeletons and minerals. A great place.
We used to be connected to Antarctica. Oz was covered with ice like Antarctica is now. We had a lot of forests and were covered by a sea. I think it was 300 million years ago, the centre was geologically unstable, forming mountains, bending the sandstone into bended layers.
A King brown skeleton.
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