Beautiful & Hungry Tour in Australia. Featuring Allen Lowrie
Aug 11, 2022 10:09:05 GMT
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Beautiful & Hungry Tour 1990/91 in Australia. Featuring Allen Lowrie.
This film shows our adventures in search of carnivorous plants in Australia 1990/91. Already in Singapore we are welcomed completely surprisingly with a red carpet and Siggi even appears briefly on TV. We find Nepenthes on Sentosa Island and others in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. With a rental car we drive north along the east coast, finding first sundews and later visit the sympathetic Marilyn Minon and her Nepenthes collection in Townsville.
We drive to Port Douglas, the base of the famous Quicksilver fleet for trips to the Barrier Reef. There we also take off with Wolfgang Klein's airplane as well as an off-road vehicle to the surroundings of the Daintree Rainforest. As a tropical cyclone approaches, we move to a concrete hotel in Cairns and escape Cyclone Joy with one of the last planes still allowed to take off to Darwin. Christmas Eve we head from there to the famous Kakadu National Park, where we encounter plenty of crocodiles.
Then we fly to Alice Springs and visit the Red Center with the famous Uluru (formerly Ayer's Rock) and the Olgas. We continue the flight to Perth to meet Allen Lowrie and his wife Pauline. With Allen's SUV we make several tours in the Perth area. There we film many pygmy sundews and Byblis gigantea. Finally we drive together the 400 km south to Albany with a stop at Porongurup, where Allen shows us the at that time newly discovered Drosera lasiantha. Then, in a coastal area inhabited by brown snakes, we also find the famous Albany Pitcher Plant, Cephalotus follicularis.
After returning to Perth, Allen Lowrie gives us an interview in which he answers questions about the new Drosera, an ominous sundew name confusion, and the latest progress on the printing of his CP-books.
This film shows our adventures in search of carnivorous plants in Australia 1990/91. Already in Singapore we are welcomed completely surprisingly with a red carpet and Siggi even appears briefly on TV. We find Nepenthes on Sentosa Island and others in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. With a rental car we drive north along the east coast, finding first sundews and later visit the sympathetic Marilyn Minon and her Nepenthes collection in Townsville.
We drive to Port Douglas, the base of the famous Quicksilver fleet for trips to the Barrier Reef. There we also take off with Wolfgang Klein's airplane as well as an off-road vehicle to the surroundings of the Daintree Rainforest. As a tropical cyclone approaches, we move to a concrete hotel in Cairns and escape Cyclone Joy with one of the last planes still allowed to take off to Darwin. Christmas Eve we head from there to the famous Kakadu National Park, where we encounter plenty of crocodiles.
Then we fly to Alice Springs and visit the Red Center with the famous Uluru (formerly Ayer's Rock) and the Olgas. We continue the flight to Perth to meet Allen Lowrie and his wife Pauline. With Allen's SUV we make several tours in the Perth area. There we film many pygmy sundews and Byblis gigantea. Finally we drive together the 400 km south to Albany with a stop at Porongurup, where Allen shows us the at that time newly discovered Drosera lasiantha. Then, in a coastal area inhabited by brown snakes, we also find the famous Albany Pitcher Plant, Cephalotus follicularis.
After returning to Perth, Allen Lowrie gives us an interview in which he answers questions about the new Drosera, an ominous sundew name confusion, and the latest progress on the printing of his CP-books.
