SaturdayCanberraanother beautiful day but it gets rather cold at night.We arrived yesterday afternoon after a bit of a mix up with the site we had booked.They finally decided to give us a site with an ensuite which means we park the van next to a rather dilapidated hut containing a shower and toilet.We have found that city sites are so much in demand they don't have to bother but we couldn't risk moving on as finding somewhere else would have been extremely difficult and we could have finished up miles out of town.Anyway we are here for 4 nights, 2 with the superior ensuite and then 2 in a standard powered site.Once we had unpacked we set off exploring the layout of Canberra with Karen.For those of you who haven't met Karen she is the voice of our sat. nav. And she is proving invaluable especially in cities and finding caravan sites. We don't always trust her and disregard her instructions and she says recalculating in a very peeved voice and sets us right again. Trouble is she can't find tourist attractions unless we know which street they are on but I am sure when we get to know each other better she will become part of the family.There is also a man who tells us when we are at a red light camera but we don't know his name and haven't established a relationship with him yet.It was about five to four when we got down to Burley Griffin lake which runs through the centre of the city.It was named after the architect of Canberra and contains a spectacular water jet in honour of Captain Cook.We photographed and filmed it which was fortunate because it stopped at 4pm.It seems it only operates between 11am and 4 pm.It was put there in the 1970's to commemorate 200 years from Cook finding the East coast of Australia.In these water conscience /climate change days it would never have got of the drawing board.This morning we had a lake cruise and sailed close enough to feel the spray.We then moved on to the Australian war memorial which is very impressive.You would need a week to see it properly so we took the free 1 and ½ hour tour and watched the light and sound show in the main hall.The most moving part is the wall of remembrance where you can put a poppy next to a name.We bought 2 poppies and put one next to a Harrison who hadn't got a poppy and one next to a man named Cross which is the surname of our brother in law who's father was killed in the 2nd world war.At 5pm they sound the last post but after placing the poppies I felt emotional enough and couldn't face any more.We drove to a viewpoint which gives a wonderful view of the city.