The road North hugged the lake before climbing up into boulder country, with small homesteads looking lost in the huge dry brown expanse. Everywhere were piles of car/house sized boulders strewn across the landscape, with a few animals scratching a living on the parched grass. The Dividing Range was off to the West as we approached Canberra, the purpose made capital, effectively in the middle of nowhere. First stop the National Museum Of Australia: A futuristic building on the site of Lake Burley Griffin. Our introduction was in the revolving cinema which spun us 360 degrees while clueing us up on all things Oz. The museum is really high quality, with excellent displays. We looked out over the city from Black Mountain Reserve and then dropped down to walk the foreshore at Central Basin. Then we drove to the Old Parliament building and had a look around the rose garden before heading to the Griffith Vietnamese Restaurant in one of the suburbs enroute back to our accommodation at Queanbeyan.
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