Day 2 - Canberra
On the second day of our tour of southeastern Australia, we left Sydney, spent most of the afternoon in Canberra, and after taking them to Pebbly Beach to pet the kangaroos, stayed for the night in Bateman's Bay
November 22, 2004

01-JaredMomDad Me, Mom & Dad at the Ayling's house in suburban Sydney, right before we headed out for Canberra 02-DadMomPatriciaArturo Dad and Mom, and Patricia and Arturo Ayling, with their lovely jacaranda trees as a backdrop 03-PatriciaArturo Patricia & Arturo ... they're James's parents from Chile (James & Ali are the couple I did quite a bit of stuff with throughout my semester in Melbourne) ... Arturo is a senior board member of the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination in Australia 04-Jackarandas Jacarandas on the Ayling's street 05-JackarandaTree The jacaranda tree and the Ayling's house 06-AylingHouse The Ayling house 07-KeepLeft While I was driving on the Hume Hwy from Sydney to Canberra, my Dad was learning my camera and trying to take some pictures of road signs, like this 08-MileageSign Mileage sign on the Hume Hwy 09-ExitSign A typical exit sign ... Aussies like to display a diagram of the roads on their signs 10-OneWay One way, pointing left 11-FederalHwy The Federal Hwy, which branches off the Hume Hwy at Goulburn and heads to Canberra 12-SpeedLimit110 An Aussie speed limit sign ... 110 km/h (about 66-67 mph) is as fast as the limit ever gets, even on freeways, and the normal speed limit on country two-lane roads is 100 (60 mph) 17-FederalHwyLookout A lookout along the Federal Hwy just north of Canberra 18-FederalHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout 19-FederalHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout 20-FederalHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout 21-FederalHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout 22-FederalHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout ... I later combined these pictures into a panoramic, but unfortunately I haven't yet figured out how to also stick panoramics into these albums without screwing up everything else 13-FedHwyLookout Federal Hwy Lookout 14-Rocks Terraced rocks 15-BarbedWire Barbed wire 16-BarbedWire Barbed wire 22-CloudShadow A cool cloud's shadow over the plains below 23-AustralianSoldierStatue At the War Memorial in Canberra, a statue commemorating all soldiers who have fought under the Australian flag 24-WarMemorial Australian War Memorial 25-HMASAustraliaNavalGun A naval gun from the HMAS Australia 26-DadMom-GumTree Dad & Mom by a gum tree at the War Memorial 27-MosaicBark The mosaic-like bark of one of the many types of gum/eucalyptus trees 28-MerchantMarineSculpture Merchant Marine sculpture 29-AustralianWarMemorial Australian War Memorial 30-SimpsonAndHisDonkey Simpson and His Donkey ... Simpson was a legendary Australian field medic, whose heroics in saving injured servicemen haven't been forgotten 31-Plaque A plaque about Simpson and His Donkey 32-AnzacParage Anzac Parade, the memorial-lined route between the War Memorial and the Parliament House in Canberra 33-AustralianFlag Aussie flag 34-WarMemorial War Memorial 35-MeninGateLion One of the Menin Gate Lions, which were taken from the Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium in WWI 36-Plaque Plaque about the Menin Gate Lions 37-WarMemorial The Australian War Memorial in Canberra 38-WarMemorial A display inside the War Memorial 39-AnzacCanoe The Anzac Canoe, used at the landing at Gallipoli in WWI ... most Aussies & Kiwis regard Gallipoli as the birth of their respective nations ... Gallipoli was a horribly botched operation by the British, who sent the ANZAC's (Australia & New Zealand Army Corps) to the wrong beach (either that or they sent the support artillery to the wrong beach, I forget), leading to a bloody massacre at the hands of the Turks 40-AnzacCanoe Inside the Anzac Canoe 41-Diorama One of the many dioramas in the War Memorial to depict various battles from WWI and other wars 42-RecruitingFlag An army recruiting flag used originally during WWI, and then again during WWII 43-RollOfHonour The Roll of Honour, with poppies left in rememberance by the loved ones of those whose names are listed here ... the Roll of Honour continued clear on the other side of the central courtyard of the War Memorial 44-WarMemorial Australian War Memorial ... we only spent an hour in there, barely grazing the WWI section, but it was so fascinating that we could've easily spent all day there had we had time 45-WarMemorial War Memorial and Canberra 46-UnknownSoldier Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 47-Shrine Shrine of Rememberance 48-Dome Central dome in the Shrine of Rememberance 49-Columns Columns in the Shrine of Rememberance 50-EternalFlame The Eternal Flame 51-SimpsonDonkeyBlackMtn Simpson and His Donkey, with Black Mountain and Telstra Tower in the distance 52-Canberra A spectacular view of Canberra from atop Mount Ainslie ... at the near end of the long reddish road (Anzac Parade) is the War Memorial, and at the far end of it is the Parliament House, and Lake Burley-Griffin can be seen bisecting the city 53-JaredMomDad-Canberra Me, Mom & Dad at Canberra 54-MtAinslieLookout Mt Ainslie Lookout 55-MtAinslieLookout Mt Ainslie Lookout 56-MtAinslieLookout Mt Ainslie Lookout 57-MtAinslieLookout Mt Ainslie Lookout ... again, these last few pictures were later made into a panoramic 58-DadMom-KangarooSign Dad & Mom by a kangaroo crossing sign on Mt Ainslie 59-JaredMom-KangarooSign Mom and I by the kangaroo sign 60-Jared-KangarooSign Kangaroo crossing 61-GiveWay Aussies don't have 62-DadMom-Kangaroos As the day was waning we made a stop at Pebbly Beach, so that my parents could see some kangaroos close up 63-PebblyBeach Pebbly Beach 64-DadMom-PebblyBeachRoos Dad & Mom by the kangaroos of Pebbly Beach 65-FeedingKangaroos Feeding kangaroos 66-Kangaroo Kangaroo 67-Kangaroos Kangaroos 68-BluebottleJellies Blue-bottle jellies (jellyfish) that washed up on Pebbly Beach 69-PebblyBeachSurf Pebbly Beach surf 70-PebblyBeach Pebbly Beach 71-Trees Coastal gum trees at Pebbly Beach in Murramarang NP 72-Trees Murramarang NP 73-BluebottleJelliesKelp Heaps of blue-bottle jellies washed up in a mass of kelp ... blue-bottles would give you a painful sting, but they're not deadly, unlike the infamous box jellyfish, which is excruciating and extremely deadly 74-BluebottleJelly The long stinger of the blue-bottle jelly

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