Tuesday, 10 July 2012



07/07/12
St GEORGE QLD

On the bank of the river a Memorial for Squadron Leader John Francis Jackson DFC, a Queensland grazier & business & Warrant Officer Leonard Victor Waters, the only known Aboriginal fighter pilot to serve in World War 11, a very impressive memorial.


Went down town to see "The Unique Egg" display. The artist is Steve Margaritis, who first came into contact with the Emu egg when he migrated to Australia in 1954.  His natural curiosity and instinct to create led him to start carving eggs, entirely self taught he applied the skills he had acquired while carving wood as a hobby in Greece. He never attended school  and is self taught. Steve derives a great deal of satisfaction from creating an object of beauty & it gives him pleasure to see other people appreciating his art.    

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