I started my day with a coffee with author Russ Morison who has just published a book about the RAASC in Vietnam (Sustaining the Fight). He has incorporated some notes from my website into his book. Normally, books like this are written about the fighting units in wars and only rarely do those units, like…
We started our fourth day in Canberra by doing a drive around Lake Burley Griffin which is the centre point of Canberra City’s master plan. We stopped at a number of points as we pottered on our way around most of the lake. Our first stop was at Telstra Tower on Black Mountain only to…
Our plan today was to visit two galleries – one renowned and the other spectacular (but away from the main bunch of the top Canberra attractions). Our first stop of the day was a visit to the renowned Australian National Gallery which houses a large collection of eclectic artworks by both by Australian and International…
As a veteran, I am always interested to visit the Australian War Memorial here in Canberra. Every time that I visit, I find something new to see. It is a wonderful memorial with so much to reflect upon as to how our armed services have contributed to Australia’s history. Charles Bean, Australia’s official World War…
While I have been out late at night visiting Canberra’s Enlighten attractions, I have also been getting up before dawn each morning to see the hot air balloons that are also operating here over this long weekend. On Saturday, out first morning here, I woke up late but quickly threw on some clothes and bolted…
I was quite happy with my photos from our first night out at Enlighten and we decided to go out on our second night and take some more distant images from some of the further Canberra viewpoints.The weather was quite mild so it was very comfortable being out at night. Our plans were delayed somewhat…
Last night, I braved the crowds to go and photograph some of the illuminated buildings in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra that form part of the Enlighten Festival. We had an early dinner so that I could get to the area that I wanted to photograph at dusk on time for sunset. This wasn’t too…
This weekend is a long weekend in Melbourne (and Canberra) and we have flown up to Canberra to do some photography. This weekend sees two large photo worthy events overlap. One is the Enlighten Festival in which a number of government buildings by the lake are illuminated with special effects lighting. The other is a…
Between now and Remembrance Day, The Australian War Memorial in Canberra has a display of 62,000 poppies. Each was hand knitted. We are here to see them and to have a look at some other attractions that are happening in the National Library. Every time that we have visited Canberra, there has been something new…
We have been travelling home over the last two days. The weather has been exceptionally hot but air conditioned cars have made it at least tolerable. We left Canberra on Sunday as early as we could manage and stopped at the little village of Cockington Green on our way out of Canberra. This is a…
It’s been 38 C degrees in Canberra (100.4 F) for the last two days and we are beginning to melt. We leave to come back home tomorrow morning and both Canberra and Albury (our overnight stop will both be 38C again as well. We have been trying to focus on indoor activities that are cooler,…
Today, we visited two veritable Australian institutions – Parliament House and the Royal Australian Mint. Both had fantastic tours that enabled the girls to understand their purpose and operations. I am always proud to visit our Parliament. We have a very stable democracy and parliament is the central institution that ensures this continues. There are…