East Coast Australia
Trip Start
Apr 21, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 01, 2008
Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory,
Australia
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Canberra doesnt feel like a capital city at all, there doesnt seem to be much to the city at all and im not particulary keen on it really. (Maybe its just the cold getting to me) We spent our first day splashing out on some warmer clothes...we didnt think strapless tops, vests and shorts were a great idea, so now we have a couple of jumpers, bed hats, gloves, coats and scarfs...along with a luxury heater for our van. The shopping in canberra is pretty good although again not what you'd expect from the capital.
We are staying at an exhibition park where they train dogs for shows and horses by chariot racing them which is a tad weird. As you can tell we have been making use of the free internet at the library ( now ive finally gotten round to trying to write what we have been doing for the last month)...at the moment we are researching campervans for new zealand as we think this will be lots more fun than the bus.
So far in canberra we have wandered about as much as we can, but its just too cold, we have seen parliment house and the captain cook memorial water jet. We went to Black Mountain tower to sdee the views but you have to pay to get to the top so we just opted for overlooking the edges. The views of the city are pretty cool though...it looks much better from above
We also went to the National Musuem of Australia today, this was fun as we learnt abit about all of oz, went in the revolving cinema and made our own 3d future buildings and then watched them on a 3d screen with other peoples ( this was lots of fun, especially as they took photos of you first so they could attach them to your building). We felt platypus's fur here which is so soft and the building its self is really cool and wacky....i think craig would have taken more photos had we not been running out of space on our memory cards.
Oh there are also loads of cockatoos here, hundreds, we saw them first in Australia Zoo and now there are lots in the wild. They are always grazing for food and make a right rackett!!!
Anyway i guess we should go and get some tea, we are starting our final journey to Melbourne tommorrow, so only 2 more days of driving ( well half days)...i think we will miss our little cold tin can when we have to leave her...oh and the packing will be extremely hard...how will we get a fan heater through the airport?? any ideas?
