I've got a few minutes before heading off for orchestra and so I thought that I'd write a bit more about our holiday. We were tired at the end of the first day. Jonathan, Tiffany and I drove to Canberra after work. Unfortunately it was dark for quite a bit of the way, but we did manage to get a stunning view of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds from a stopping point overlooking Lake George. There's an interesting discussion going on about how Lake George manages to spend most of its time empty, but then suddenly fill up with water: "Many urban myths have been started about the lake being connected to other lakes in Peru or South Africa and there is a little grain of truth in it," Mr Nancarrow says. Anyway, we couldn't see any water and it was terribly cold, so after staring at the stars for a while we got back in the car to continue towards Canberra.
Oh dear - I got us very lost. I blame Google maps which seems to contain roads that don't exist and not contain roads that do exist. Eventually we found University House, checked in and then went to see the sights of Canberra. Every street we walked down seemed empty, but every bar and cafe was full. We had our second dinner of the evening in a nice restaurant (that served Crackenback pale ale - it's wonderful) being forced to listen to some very loud (but quite good) guitar playing - the musician held the guitar horizontally on his lap and played with a shot glass!
After ambling around a little more we all decided that we were tired and so headed off back to the hotel.
The photos attached to this blog are meant to build up excitement about the next day (it's hard to make Canberra seem very exciting - especially as it was dark and cold).
2 comments:
Gorgeous panoramic photo of Parkes. It turned out so well! I do feel silly for asking you take a photo of Parkes, and not to include 'the dish' but the photo is just so perfect! I l ike how it's focusing on the clouds and the universe- as you say; the things that remind us how insignificant we are.
Google maps does lie, I know this because the other day I used it to check how to get from north of Perth to a place near Freo and it wanted me to take a freeway entrance in the wrong direction!!
But I think in theory the roads DO exist... Jamie S and Cliff (not sure if you know them) had an idea for a reality tv show based on google maps - you type in any two australian town names, and the challenge is to get there following the directions given by google maps (I guess in competition with someone going a more logical way). This was triggered by them discovering that you can supposedly get from Melbourne to Broome in a basically straight line.... uh huh!
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