the journey

October 2005 - I went to the Gold Coast and had a ball in the Art Dpt on H2O.
We left Sydney at 11pm, and took our time getting up there. It would have taken us 15 hours if we hadn't have stopped off at Byron for most of the afternoon.

The majority of the trip was spent along dark and winding roads, but at about 11am, we passed a driver revivor that looked a bit different. We had stumbled into some sort of picnic day. More locals than commuters, and defiantly more conversations happening in Italian than English.

A replica of Michelangelo's David.

A large group of people crowded around an odd object.

That turned out to be an odd fund-raising / gambling device.

You play for $2, choose a wooden paddle, and they start the square thing in the middle spinning. The ball in knocked in random directions until it has knocked oven every paddle, save one. That paddle is the winner, and you get some token amount of $$ as a prize. The operator didn't look too pleased when I told him that it was possible (though statistically unlikely) that the game could go on forever without touching any of the three paddles that were left.

Thought this looked cool, so snapped off a few shots... I found out later that it's a Sugar refinery.
How come there is never any Sugar Refineries in any of the strategy games I've played?

Umm... Big Prawn on a roof of a restaurant.

Lunch at a Byron