Travelling home

We arrived safely at Brisbane airport and got our bags and boarded the bus. Now on the way to Dalby. Estimated time of arrival is between 12:30 and 1am.

Mount Ainslie lookout

Our last stop for the day before driving back to Sydney was Mt Ainslie lookout. The view was amazing and it was a great opportunity to get our last pictures of Canberra.

National Capital Exhibition

We got a guided tour around the exhibition and learnt all about Canberra and how it came to be.

CSIRO

Our last day today and we went off to the CSIRO. It was lots of fun and we were able to do lots of hands on activities. It had some animals and insects that were really cool. Many of us tried the rope challenge but were defeated by the rope.

Wednesday night

On our last night in Canberra we conducted an award ceremony. It was refreshing to hear all the adults speak so highly of the children. Each group was awarded a camper of the week and it was so difficult for all the adults to nominate only one person. Mr Kelly said how he has been spoken to by outside parties on how well our children are behaved and how impressed they are with them.

Government House

Unfortunately we missed the Governor-General today as he left last night for a trip but we still found it interesting to look around Government House. We walked up the long driveway surrounded by beautiful gardens and immaculate lawns to the enormous house. We found out lots of information about our current Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. We couldn't believe the dinner plates have rings of 24 carat gold on them.

The National Gallery

After enjoying a yummy sausage sizzle for lunch we walked over to the National Art Gallery for a tour. We all headed off with different tour guides and saw different parts of the gallery. The students were exposed to art by some famous Australian artists.