Blogs from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 39

15-3-8 can i move fast enough? for spruiking carpark surfside shark alert, all out, cruising in inflatable, back and forth. stuck stickers on cars, flag flying at kiosk. swim with chilly side current before the whistles blew and siren screeched. island sat ponderous on horizon. fall sun, cool light breeze. autumn bring it on. riverfringe natural treescape behind which mown fairways delight those who persue white balls passionately. 'from rediculous to sublime.' went to dockter for medical nuisances. lady floral patterns spent her five dollar emergency for flag while hubby off to atm for cash, off to concert, had to dash. quiet. just the occasional audi floating by. our car fleet shiny new, ten years then scrap. mar 16 laundry then splendid early sunday carpark spruik. day of fasting. australian shelduck on surfbeach supurb weather. swim ... read more

From Jervis Bay, it was time for a little road trip with the parents. Brett is still of working, so we decided to go check out Canberra which is the capital of Australia. And I know how my dad loves war museums and parliament buildings from our many family holidays back in the day, so I knew what I was in store for. However, he surprised us a little and my mom and I were able to keep him moving and we actually enjoyed it almost as much as he did. Well not quite. But it was good. We made the 3 hour drive from Jervis Bay to Canberra, and the landscape changed from being very green and lush on the coast (from all the rain this past summer), to dryer and flatter. Alot of it ... read more

hey everyone...well im annoyed this bloody computer just crashed after id already written most of my blog so here i go again....... had a great time in melbourne...spent a week there. we bought a campervan called barry and hes amazing...hes red and lovely. the reason we named him barry is cos when joe got in him with the owner to go for a test drive barry white was on the radio singing 'feels so good'. was bloody hilarious! anyway we left melbourne and headed on down to phillip island where we went to see koalas in the wild and went to see little penguins coming up onto the beach at sunset...it was absolutely gorgeous!!! then we went to a beach called paradise beach...a fitting name for it! pure white sand with a crystal clear sea. and ... read more

G'day mate, We drove for about 8 1/2 hours to reach the Australias capital - Canberra. Rob was quite tired and had done really well to drive that far in one go. We chose a camp site that was as near to the centre as poss called Canberra motor village. It wasn't one of the ones in our top tourist book as they didn't have any at all, quite strange when its the capital.Although this was news to me - as i always thought it was Sydney! Next day we caught the bus to the National musuem which was free. It was OK, but not as good as we have seen and it was full of scholl kids. We then had a look around the city which was really nice. It wasn't busy like you would ... read more

Well it seems I have lost the camera that I just purchased, so that sucks very much. But I am going to pick up another one soon I suppose, though I will probably be very paranoid to bring it out. Sheena came and visited me on Thursday with JM, and we partied at the University bar for the rubics cube party... you had to dress in all different colours (like blue shirt, red shorts etc.) and by the end of the night you had to be all one colour, so that was pretty cool. This is also the same night that I lost my camera in a drunken stupor. Yesterday the international students went on a sailing trip... we actually got to sail the catamarans by ourselves, which was very cool. After we had some lunch ... read more