Spaceships

28 June – Saturday

A day for relations. This morning was spent meeting for the first time and visiting Pauline’s third cousin, Gayle, and her family. We had an interesting morning discussing family history and solving the problems of the welfare and education systems before moving suburbs and meeting Les’ sister, Margaret and her husband, Alan. Margaret and Alan are spending a couple of nights in Canberra on their way home from Darwin and our time in Canberra happened to coincide.

We took Margaret and Alan for a drive through the surrounding countryside, with a visit to the Tidbinbilla Space Station being a highlight of the afternoon. It was also a great place for a coffee and biscuit!

The drive home was during the late afternoon and we saw literally hundreds of kangaroos (not wallabies) in the paddocks around the suburbs. The mobs or kangaroos were like sheep in a paddock – I have never seen so many. With the large number eating the grass in the lawn cemeteries, mowing wouldn’t be a high priority. No wonder the authorities of Canberra complain about the problem.