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Castaways
Izzie has been a bit of a culture vulture lately. It's time to stock up on lots of new experiences to feed the inner serpent which is going to be busy around the time of the witching hour of All Nano's Eve.
So it's just as well that one of the regular features on the culture calendar has been moved from May to October to take advantage of the mild and not so wild weather (since a bunch of sculptures on the beach were seriously trashed by storms last time)
Some samples of the sculptures
There's something wonderful about lurking around the beach on a sunny day and when there's lots of beautiful art to look at, it's even more magical.
The constraint of being required to recycle source materials keeps the works grounded and actually makes the art far more creative and quirky than the increasingly pompous and pretentious efforts that dominate its rival Sculpture by the Sea
Further up north there is another sculptural offering commemorating the Dutch sailing ship that dropped by for a couple of days exactly 400 years ago.
The skipper Dirk Hartog who was working for the VOC (Dutch East India Company) later got sacked by the evil VOC goblins for being such a snailish sailor.
But Izzie's hanging out for the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the sinking of the Batavia which was the Titanic of its day. That will be in June 2029. If the ship had been grounded off the coast of California, there would be a Hollywood movie about it every five years.
So it's just as well that one of the regular features on the culture calendar has been moved from May to October to take advantage of the mild and not so wild weather (since a bunch of sculptures on the beach were seriously trashed by storms last time)
Some samples of the sculptures
There's something wonderful about lurking around the beach on a sunny day and when there's lots of beautiful art to look at, it's even more magical.
The constraint of being required to recycle source materials keeps the works grounded and actually makes the art far more creative and quirky than the increasingly pompous and pretentious efforts that dominate its rival Sculpture by the Sea
Further up north there is another sculptural offering commemorating the Dutch sailing ship that dropped by for a couple of days exactly 400 years ago.
The skipper Dirk Hartog who was working for the VOC (Dutch East India Company) later got sacked by the evil VOC goblins for being such a snailish sailor.
But Izzie's hanging out for the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the sinking of the Batavia which was the Titanic of its day. That will be in June 2029. If the ship had been grounded off the coast of California, there would be a Hollywood movie about it every five years.