Exploring Melbourne

Today we travelled by train to the city, then on a tour bus and then on a tram to the zoo.

This is the Flinders Street station. It is huge.

We bought lunch and some things at the Victoria Market.

This is an African animal like a big ant-eater, it is a peccary

This is a giant tortoise. It might be hundreds of years old.

Our tickets were for two days so we went back into the city today. This time we went by tram so Nana didn't have to walk up all the steps at the station. We went to the 88th floor of the Eureka Tower.It is the tallest building in Melbourne.The Eureka Tower has a panel of gold for the gold rush and a strip of red for the blood spilled at the Eureka Stockade.The blue and white are the colours of the Eureka flag.

We went into Saint Paul's Cathedral,

This is a view of Melbourne from inside the Eureka Tower.

This is the Eureka Tower outside view,
You can just see the gold panel and red strip.

This is a tower like a net over a theatre.

Melbourne

We arrived in Melbourne yesterday. We are staying with Mum's cousin Suzy. She took us for a drive to show us the Brighton Bathing Boxes. It was so windy that the birds were being blown backwards.Suzy had a triathlon today and had to get up at 4 o'clock. The swimming part was cancelled because it was so windy.

 It is so windy that the seagulls are actually flying backwards

This is a view of all the beach boxes

This is my favorite beach box

Today we went to Luna Park then we went for a drive and met Mum's cousin Michelle. At Luna Park, I had a ticket for unlimited rides.

This is the entrance of Luna Park

This is the place were you get tickets and it says admit one

I am next to a sign saying, Please queue safely. Queue jumpers will get torn in half and eaten by demons

This is some of the famous Luna Park

I am in a bumper car

They are very fast

This is a roller coaster called the silly serpent 

It goes at about 50 kilometers an hour 

I am getting on the Coney Tower

Then it drops fast

It goes up high (13.5 metres)

Ned Kelly Glenrowan

Ned Kelly was one of the most infamous bushrangers. He was wanted for helping another bushranger and he killed a police officer. His family and his gang  probably got killed and he was hanged n te Melbourne Jail in 1880. The gang was Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, Today I have been to a museum in Glenrowan about him.

this is a statue of him in his armour

i am looking at a replica of his armour

this iss a wanted sign of  Ned Kelly 

This is what his house looked like

Jugiong, Gundagai, Albury

We are going south in New South Wales and are now at the border in Albury. We have free camped in all three places.

Jugiong

John and Dianne suggested we stay at Jugiong. The showgrounds were huge  and had at least 30 RVs. We made a donation in  the box before we left. We were going to have a swim but it was too late and too cold. Then the next day we saw that it didn't open till 2pm. When we looked, the three pools were all empty.

This reminded me of Simpson and his donkey

Bushrangers were robbers on the hgihways

Gundagai

At Gundagai we stayed at night near the river. There were cows behind the fence and a river. A very long ancient bridge was being renovated. The next day Nana got a haircut and I used the rest of the wifi. It costed Nana $150 for more wifi.

There is a song about Gundagai.
Where the dog sits on the tucker box 9 miles from Gudagai

This is the story of the dog on the tucker box.

The old bridge and some cows

Albury

We are at Albury and we are at the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen leagues club (SSA). For lunch we had an Asian salad from Woolies. I had about two thirds of it and Nana had about one third. We were at the War Memorial but it was too hot so we came back to the SSA club so Nana could have coffee.

Nana says it looks crooked because it is on the side of a hill.

Questacon

Cecilia and I  went to Questacon . That was the science centre. There were masses of things to do. There were 8 galleries, all about different things and there was a theatre.

The first thing we saw was a marble ball that moved in water.

The next thing we saw was a sensor and you could play instruments on it .
The shape was a harp . It was fun to play on . 

The third thing we saw was a speaker.
We had to talk in a normal voice and we heard it high and low and fast.
Then we had to record it.

We went to the theatre for a talk about food.
CC tasted lemon then had a tablet and tasted it again.
This time it tasted like lemonade (Yummy!)
At the end we got blue tongues.

In the H2O gallery was saw the cycle of rain.

CC spent ages with the machine that sucked up scarves
and then they floated down again

The moving lights felt funny.

At this table the wind kept our helicopters in the air.

This was our tower just before it collapsed.

When we were leaving we danced with a statue.