Whew, its now week 4 of the Awesome Tour of Sydney….and we’re more than half way through the quest! I’ve been on hols last week (sleeping through Hurricane Bill in a tent is NOT COOL peeps), so I left Katie (of the brilliant ANZAC biscuits!) in charge of our little quest to Australia. Admittedly, it’s got to be the toughest challenge to date, so I was secretly pleased that I had my holiday as an excuse to turn this challenge over to someone else. Heehee..

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The results are hilarious…here is what Katie had to say:

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So it was my responsibility this week to invent an animal. I was having a creative block so I threw it open to the twitter community. I thought if everyone could contribute a bit we would end up with something truly unique.

I got the ball rolling with the body, I decided to make it round and yellow like the hot Aussie sun and with a pouch to represent all the wonderful Marsupials that are found in Australia.

My first twitter submission was from @idlesi who drew an excellent cut out kangaroo of which I chose to use the head.

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Next up @pholloway sent me a selection of tails that he designed during an obviously riveting conference call at work.

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@culturevultures submitted some legs which were interesting! (Ed: Sorry about the screenshot!)

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@pk_1 submitted this gem of an outback inspired limb. (Ed: Out Back…geddit?Hehe)

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@them_apples came up with this Popeye-inspired right arm…all the better for pulling on the schooners. I quote ‘…Aussies are sporty, so a muscular arm it is then’.

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@kiwi_spotlight came up with three limbs…love the aborginal-inspired design on the appendages. (ED: She even kindly helped put our crapnimal lovely made-believe animal friend together again from the different pieces of art..thankyou!)

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And ta-da!! Meet Merrijig (Ed: I came up with that name!) It means ‘Good’ in one of the Aborginal tounge – the broad term Aboriginal Australians includes many regional groups that often identify under names from local Indigenous languages. (Merrijig is also a small town in the State of Victoria in Australia – about 744 km from Sydney)

I hope Dave the lonely Kangaroo will love her..yes, I made it a her as it’s meant to be Dave’s ‘mate’…:P (bacon: Let’s hope she’s got a good personality)

We’ve tried keeping all Twitter discussions tagged to #me2sydney, but admittedly do tend to forget! You can see most of our discussions here . Special thanks goes out to the crazy creative Twitter community for pitching in bits and pieces, hope you’re thrilled with you collaborative excercise!

@leedsgrub
@pk_1
@culturevultures
@pholloway
@Idlesi
@Kiwi_spotlight
@coffeewithkate
@them_apples

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If you’ve been inspired by lovely Merrijig to visit some real-life good looking Australian wildlife, please have a further nosy at the links below..

See Sydney Day 1
Facebook album
Flickr Set
Sydney Wildlife World
Taronga Zoo

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