For our last adventure of the year, Flutter and I visited ‘The Adventurers Tiki Lodge‘…

… this destination is billed as a ‘love letter to Tiki Culture’, but is also very much a homage to the Exotica and Lounge movements…

… the colours are gorgeously rich and lush. One of the first things we noticed was this small volcano that was oozing lava…

… everything here is wonderfully retro-exotica…

… with fabulous 1950’s-60’s typography…

… we hired a jet-ski to go out and look at the Nautilus submarine we’d seen cruising in the bay…

… while we were out there, the little volcano erupted…

… it was really beautiful, and was still going when we got back on shore…

… flutter found it a bit scary because she said ‘that’s how the world ends’… one of her more cryptic utterances, but the eruption died down, and she went back to her usual, happy little self…

… we rounded off our visit lounging by the fire.

Flutter and I wish you all a very happy new year (:

Yesterday, my little bio-mechanoid Lepidoptera and I, visited Frozen…

… this is a mostly minimalist, winter wonderland, with just the right balance of cute clutter…

… the biggest amount of which is in the build’s only internal space…

… there are many cats, large and small, here…

… if you know us, you know these minimalist environments, with big skies, and wide horizons…

… are our favourite kinds of place. The moon, here, is so minimalist, it is featureless…

… we love the colour palette, here…

… there’s plenty of of beautiful, icey-blue, winter scenery for photo-ops…

… a pretty place to visit (:

I took Flutter to see the butterflies at Lawst Paradise, yesterday. It’s been nearly 5 years since I was here, last… an SL eternity. I saw it advertised, recently, in the destination guide… I’d assumed it was long-gone, so was delighted to see that wasn’t the case. You land on the bottom floor of tiered galleries featuring written word and neon sculpture. If you know me, you know I’m not interested in the written word as art, so, as always, I have not captured any of the word stuff, but there’s lots here, if that’s what you are into… the theme is peace and happiness, and love… who could fault such a theme?…

… you make your way up the levels, viewing the various themes. This is, by far, my favourite level, and the one I brought Flutter to see. It is filled with gorgeous, neon sculpture…

… and beautiful, singing butterfly creations. Their voices are an incredibly soothing chiming sound. You can take free copies of them. When I found this place, all those SL years ago, I took a few, then came back and took a few more… they have been in the garden by my home gallery ever since, and are indelibly stamped in my mind as an essential part of my little world in Jormundgandr. Flutter was as enamoured of them as I knew she’d be…

… we lounged around, listening to the crystal chimes, for a while…

… then continued up, through the various levels of pretty things…

… up and up we went…

… stopping to ride a swing in the stars…

… stopping to look at each bright thing…

… enveloped in very peaceful, rich, neon colours…

… till, at last, we could see the final staircase, winding it’s way through the stars, above our heads…

… and we ascended to the last level.

Flutter and I wish you all peace and rest, these next few days, whatever your beliefs (:

We visited WQNC, today. You land in the shallows of an ocean, wondering where the hell you are…

… then you see you are standing in front of a large, derelict building, on a tiny island…

… the sky, here, is magnificent…

… you enter the ruin via this corridor. The ‘teleport’ sign does absolutely nothing, teleporting you about a meter, so I guess it’s someones idea of humour…

… inside is quite photogenic…

… in that derelict, yet still lit, neon, Asian ruin kinda way…

… there’s actually not much to see, here…

… it’s a short walk to nowhere, really…

… the only enterable space is filled with sleazy, adolescent, Asian manga garbage, which kinda ruins the whole place, unless you are into that shit, then there probably isn’t enough for you.