Blogs from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 11

It’s been a couple of weeks since we blogged so I need to tell everyone what has happened since. Caroline is now slowly on the mend, as I type this, Sunday morning at 05:15, 22 May, her progress has been good. I am surprised just how much this appendicitis knocked her for six. We would both like to say a big thank you to everyone for all the flowers, the calls and the cards, helping her get well again, and getting back to full health. Well enough about her, for the moment that is, lets see what has been going on. I have been busy doing drawings, maybe more like sketches and writing a “specification” on getting the back canopy built for the cruiser, and I came to a point where I was satisfied enough, ... read more

Le territoire de la Capitale australienne est né du conflit entre Sydney et Melbourne qui se disputaient le privilège de devenir la capitale de la jeune fédération indépendante. Aucune ne pouvant tolérer la prééminence de l’autre, un accord fut signé pour créer la ville de Canberra et le plus petit territoire autonome du pays. Ainsi est née cette cité-état située entre les 2 métropoles du pays. C’est le site actuel de Canberra qui fût à ce moment choisi, s’appuyant sur le passé aborigène qui voulait que cet endroit soit un « lieu de rencontre », traduction littérale de « Kanberra », terme aborigène utilisé pour décrire cette place où les aborigènes nomades se réunissaient régulièrement. Bien que capitale du pays, Canberra est généralement rayée des parcours touristiques car elle ne présente pas d’intérêt particulier, si ce ... read more

On our amazing adventure, we first met a family in Tasmania, who were educating their children over “School of the air” This was a new concept to us, which we found fascinating. As we went further around Australia, we met several families who were doing the same thing. Today we hear that the school of the air is 60 years old today, it started in Alice Springs in 1951, to provide schooling for children in remote locations, and at this point in time still provides this facility to over 600 students. When you consider just how big this country is, you can understand the necessity of this service. I plucked this of Wikipedia and read through it, we have seen one of the old pedal powered radio sets when we were at the RFDS (Royal Flying ... read more

On Thursday we arrived at the National folk festival in Canberra . It started on Thursday night.. I went out on Friday . There were lots of bands and market stalls. I ate some great food including: greek kebab, African kofta balls and Turkish gozlemi. My favourite bands were Flap! , the April Maze and Totally Gourdgeous . I also saw a circus which had Flap! playing behind them. We saw a Javanese puppet show telling the story of Ned Kelly with some Indonesian puppets, instruments and music in it. Thats all for now folks.... read more

We left Albury last Friday and went straight to Ulladulla. It took seven hours which seemed to go really quick. We stayed at aunty Helens house. The next night we camped at Turross Heads caravan park. We camped with the Walters and went for a wild walk around the beach. We camped at woods reserve in Namadji national park and went on a giant 800m bobsled in Corin forest which the longest alpine bobsled in the southern hemisphere. We also visited the NASA tracking station with the CSIRO. The had a communication disk which was seventy three metres high. One night when we were camping it was -1 degree Celsius .We met with Damon at Questacon. It was really fun. Damon took us to a new skate park. The next day Damon, Debby and I went ... read more