Day 15 was our last day in Canberra so we headed to the governmental building that made Canberra the capital it is today, Parliament house is a very new building that tries to encorporate as much of it's country in one building as possible through the marble flooring to the panels of wood that depict all of Australia's native fauna. They also dedicate certain elements of the building to Her Majesty The Queen, by having an Elizabeth Terrace which has a balcony loo...

Day 14 has been one of the many highlights of my trip so far, firstly in the morning Mary put some bird feed out and I was able to get very close to some native Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo's who I have to admit after watching them desimate their feed I was glad not to be bitten or pecked. We then headed off up the Brindabella Hills on our way to the NASA deep space exploration centre which had lots of intriguing facts and artifacts from space, it was also funny to w...

We started off day 13 by heading up the Telstra Tower which is a television-phone and satellite beacon, situated on Black Mountain. It is 195m from the top of tower although it was a pretty cloudy day you could still see Canberra's CBD, Woden and the other surrounding towns that make up Canberra as a city. After we had descended the tower we head into the CBD of Canberra and drove through the main university campus and headed onto the embassies which were all so ...

On day eleven it was all systems go as we got packed to go to Canberra, and whilst the final checks were being done, I cleaned the Ute and the Colorado, once everyone was ready we got in the car for a long journey from Weetulta to Canberra, for lunch we stop off at Shear Outback which is a pleasant stop just off the highway and it is dedicated to providing travellers with the knowledge and history behind sheep shearing in Australia, and along with lots of old mem...

On day 10 I cleaned the one of the cars ready for our royal visit to Canberra and once that was done I drove mum and I into Moonta again so we could have a look at the Moonta Miners Museum which is housed in the old mining school, once we had finished looking at the miners incredible history we headed over to this very little but very pleasant sweet shop and bought some goodies in there. We then headed into the town to find the old Railway Station which is quite ...