Day 103 - Canberra, 8th October 2025

Ian and I headed off early again today and went down to the National Museum. We parked the car and then went for a walk, we really need the exercise! The walk around Lake Burley Griffin is beautiful, I would have liked to do the whole lap but we were booked in at the museum. Next time.




 We walked back  to the National Museum of Canberra,




and then headed inside. Our first stop was the virtual reality theatre for the Kimberley Wilderness experience narrated by Luke Hemsworth. It was really good. It showed lots of the places we had been but also lots more to put on our list!
After the movie we wandered around the exhibits.


Saw the dinosaurs.



Read a really cool story about the killer whales at Twofold Bay, with old Tom as their leader, who apparently worked with the whalers every year to catch the humpbacks.



We had a coffee and took in the view.



While Ian went to move the car I did a bit more exploring. I looked through the arch window.


And checked out the old cars.



The chairs from the cinema showing the segregation that occurred was awful.


The giant trees we walked through looked amazing.


We almost left but then I popped my head in to the Mr Squiggle exhibit and I had to call Ian back in to have a look.

It was pretty awesome seeing all the puppets that he made himself, some of them out of icecream containers and old purses.



The characters from Mr Squiggle certainly brought back lots of great memories.


I loved Gus the snail…


…and Miss Jane!


I didn’t realise there was a Miss Sue and a Miss Pat and later Norman Hetherington’s daughter, Miss Rebecca.


 Apparently he always took his suitcase with him to the shows with props,  spare parts and cornflour to make the smoke when Mr Squiggle flies to the moon!


Ian and I got our squiggle on!




And watched an old episode.


He was certainly a very clever man. 


We left the museum and headed out to check out one of Canberra’s wineries. We ended up at Mount Majura.


We spent a lovely couple of hours enjoying the view with a couple of wines and a charcuterie board.

Back at the vans we had an afternoon cuppa and did a bit of googling to find a cruise for next year. Then we packed up our drinks and nibbles and headed up to Mount Ainslie to watch the sunset.









It was a lovely warm night so sat outside and had a few more drinks and played cards.















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