Day Four - Tuesday 20th April
2004
Well we got to wake up some where
different today (Canberra), and had a great cooked
breakfast thanks to the hotel. After packing up the
vans with all our kit we headed towards ANZAC Parade.
ANZAC Parade is an awesome series of
memorials, I've been there twice now but I still
thoroughly enjoyed it. It's an eerie feeling knowing
the history that each memorial represents on this
wide and long street. Australians and some other
nationalities are remembered here, from Gallipoli,
Korea, Vietnam, through to the World Wars. There are
also individual service memorials and even one for
the nurses. Words just can't do it justice, so I'll
put a few extra photos in.
After the Parade we moved back to the
Australian War Memorial and were able to spend a few
more hours here looking at things we missed the day
before. Even by the end of today we hadn't seen
everything.
From here we finished our time in
Canberra and started on the road back to Sydney. This
time I had swapped places with the co-driver in the
second van, so I was now in the trailing van.
Therefore he became the chief navigator.
All was going well until it started
to get dark and we got held up behind a truck on the
freeway, as the cars kept going by we were getting
futher and futher behind the other van. Then as we
passed an off ramp I thought to myself that we should
have taken it (off ramp at Campbelltown). Upon
ringing the other van we found that it had taken the
off ramp, so we were stuck on the freeway by
ourselves. This next bit defies logic, there was not
a single off ramp in the direction we wanted for so
many pages on the map it wasn't funny. It took 15
minutes or so to come across an exit.
So now we had two vans in two
separate locations going two separate ways to one
location. Their way did prove quicker by 10 minutes,
but that was through no fault of ours.
All ended well with a meal at the
Richmond Club and a semi early night for another long
drive tomorrow.
Picture 12 - Kemal Ataturk Memorial.
Picture 13 - Part of the Royal
Australian Air Force National Memorial, with myself
(left) and crash (right).
Picture 14 - Part of the Royal
Australian Navy National Memorial, for you naval
types.
Picture 15 - Half of the The New
Zealand Memorial.
Picture 16 - Australian Army National
Memorial, the soldiers are more than twice my size in
height.
Picture 17 - What more can I say.
Previous Day || Next Day
