Canberra

Well Folks, Heres a much better update over the past week which should intorduce you too a few of my experiences in the past week

Here is the legendary pip dawg herself for those who dont believe me...After arriving in Sydney, I decided to go to my friend Pippa's in Canberra, which is the capital city of all of Australia, as there was a battle between sydney and Melbourne as to who should be the capital city they ended up settling and building in a place somewhat in the middle of both. Canberra is a city that was entirely designed before it even took place as nothing was there previously. So its almost unique in a sense, and it holds a pop of maybe 400 000 so its really not all that big, and its a good hike inland for most travelleers, but manages to hold some very big museums and art galleries as well as the government buildings. This place has a reputation of living life in the slow lane and well not much going on but i had a blast.

Its almost like arriving in a park you wonder what the hecks going on as nothing is really going on, peak traffic has you maybe in a stand still for about 2 minutes and maybe increases your trip by about 5-10 minutes, so its pretty sweet. Everything is very spacious, and well quiet.

I arrived in town and met Pip at the bus depot, then headed on out to meet her family, they lve in a very cute house about 15-20 minutes out of town. Upon reaching her house, her dad shows us the tiger snake he had killed earlier, this snake is one of the several venemous ones in Aus. and just happened to be burrowed right beside the house, so this had me tip toeing around the house for a few days as i expected to see snakes everywhere but really they are quite uncommon to run into.

Allllsooo, some of you wont believe this but at Pippas house any rain that falls on the roof they collect and thats all of there drinking water, thats it... and its freakin dry here, would be cool to implement this at home, but i imagine the acid rains not exactly good for the stomach..

The house itself, a hexagon, with a garden in the middle, probably one of the coolest houses ive seen, and for someting that looks so small, its pretty freakin big, they managed to have 8 people including me living in it while i was there. Her family was absolutely amazing and i would go back in a heart beat. Pip took me on a few trips around the area, where we looked at small towns, went down to the coast at Malua Bay where we saw dolphins, and onto a hike into the escarpment that runs the coast, and the great dividing range and was absolutely gorgeous, we also went on a fantastic picnic along a river and despite high winds and some drunkin aussies throwin rocks we had a wicked day.

Also one night we had a lizard laying eggs along the drive way was pretty freakin cool as you could get right up to it and then she would fill in thehole a bit and pack it with her nose and then continue filling in the hole more, pretty sweet here she is

Stay Precious as always,

Bob