Sunday 1.5.22
Big day of exploring today. We decided to go to Canberra again today and visited Questacon science centre, International flag display, Peace Park, Australian of the year display and the War Memorial. We walked 15kms, my feet are exhausted.
**warning squillions & squillions of photos today **
Sphere floating on water.
This was a bit freaky, the eyes were following me.
Pumping air bubbles.
Ghostly me 😁👻
Different lenses.
Earthquake room. Felt a quake of 5.6 on the Richter scale.
Lightning cage. The poor man in the pic was electrocuted every 15 minutes.
Replicas of human skulls.
Female and male gorilla skulls.
Planet Mars.
A free fall slide.
Questacon was evacuated. A Japanese exhibition we were about to go into couldn't be accessed, the doors had locked and the people inside couldn't get out. We decided not to go back in but explored the parklands instead. Canberra is very well set out and quite pretty. I'm glad we decided to come back here today instead of moving further towards home.
Someone has defaced the Russian flag name plate.
Great year 😉
A few of the Australian of the year plaques since 1960.
View up to Parliament house.
Aboriginal tent embassy, old parliament house with new parliament house in the background.
Reconciliation place.
High court.
National portrait gallery, unfortunately time didn't permit us a chance to go in.
National library.
On the way to the National War Memorial.
We had pre booked an afternoon at the memorial, including attending the Last Post Ceremony.
This was where Marks grandfather was injured.
Pool of reflection.
It was a very moving ceremony honouring a fallen soldier. His family laid wreaths as did some other people remembering their loved ones.
Beautiful sunset on the drive home to finish a hectic but interesting, enjoyable day.
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