Hudson on the Highway

Last Days

2016-11-16T23:17:00.003-08:00

We travelled in a big circle back to Melbourne. One night we stayed at the sports ground in Loch. There were a lot of people exercising and walking their dogs. I played with a little boy who was digging up worms. Loch has a suspension bridge. The first time, I was scared because it was moving but I went over it about 10 times.

We drove to Wilson's Promontory. That is as far south as you can go on the mainland. It was cold and wet but at Squeaky Beach I went Pokemon hunting. A lot of people talked to me about Pokemon.

Another night we stayed near Foster at a creek. There were about 20 campers there. One was a Wicked van with graffiti all over it.We went in to Angel Falls. They were good because it as been raining. We were going to stop overnight in Bunyip but Nana was tired so we stopped in a car park at Warragul. On the way today, we drove in to Bunyip. The only bunyip we saw was on a sign. We are back at Suzy's now and tomorrow I will fly home.

I am getting brave

I was a bit nervous

Here I am next to the soldier

This bridge cost $53,000

I am at Agnes Falls,

What a lovely waterfall

Look, a dead Echidna

This is the only bunyip we saw.

This is a good view of Squeaky Beach.

Look at me. I am doing Pokemon Go

This is me at Squeaky Beach doing Pokemon

Pokemon Hunter

2016-11-16T23:17:00.000-08:00

Electabuzz

Today in Loch, I got 21 Pokemon. I got more than one of some of them. Two of them were new. The new ones are Electabuzz and Likitung.

Likitung

The old ones are : Eevee, Pidgey, Koffing, Caterpie, Jigglypuff and Weedle.

I also saw a Pokemon that is legendary but I didn't catch it.

Mew!

Cory said that Mew isn't in Pokemon Go but I saw it

The next day at Squeaky Beach I only found ones I already had, including Weedle.

Phillip Island - Churchill Island Farm

2016-11-14T00:36:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, we went to Churchill Island Heritage Farm by crossing the bridge to Churchill island. We had a big day and this is how it started. First we got ready and walked to were we see cows getting milked by a farmer and then told what kind of milk it it is and then I milked the cow by softly squishing the udder of the cow. Then we went and saw a sheep get shorn and the farmer almost wrestled it to shear it. After he had shorn it I felt the wool and it was soft. Then we went and saw a sheep dog round up sheep.We watched a girl cracking different whips.

This is a peacock with its feathers out

I am milking a cow

I am on a wagon

Look at me pet this horse

This is the farmer shearing the sheep

I am touching the sheep's wool

This farmer is cracking some whips

Phillip Island - the Penguin Parade

2016-11-12T20:28:00.001-08:00

There is a colony of Little Penguins on Phillip Island. Every night thousands of penguins come out of the ocean. They work hard to get out of the water because the waves push them forward then drag them back into the sea. They waddle up the beach. Nana thinks that it is interesting the way they sometimes walk up the beach a bit and then run back into the water. Some of them have chicks waiting in their burrow. Some of them wait outside the burrows and watch every adult go past until their parents arrive. Some of the penguins have burrows a long way from the beach and take a long time to get there.Baby chicks are dark blue and get darker as they grow.

look at all the penguin

Look at the seals

I am at the nobbies

I am at the sea

I am ready to see penguins

Look a me with piplop

I am standing next to information

Exploring Melbourne

2016-11-09T00:21:00.002-08:00

Today we travelled by train to the city, then on a tour bus and then on a tram to the zoo.

This is the Flinders Street station. It is huge.

We bought lunch and some things at the Victoria Market.

This is an African animal like a big ant-eater, it is a peccary

This is a giant tortoise. It might be hundreds of years old.

Our tickets were for two days so we went back into the city today. This time we went by tram so Nana didn't have to walk up all the steps at the station. We went to the 88th floor of the Eureka Tower.It is the tallest building in Melbourne.The Eureka Tower has a panel of gold for the gold rush and a strip of red for the blood spilled at the Eureka Stockade.The blue and white are the colours of the Eureka flag.

We went into Saint Paul's Cathedral,

This is a view of Melbourne from inside the Eureka Tower.

This is the Eureka Tower outside view,
You can just see the gold panel and red strip.

This is a tower like a net over a theatre.

Melbourne

2016-11-06T14:31:00.001-08:00

We arrived in Melbourne yesterday. We are staying with Mum's cousin Suzy. She took us for a drive to show us the Brighton Bathing Boxes. It was so windy that the birds were being blown backwards.Suzy had a triathlon today and had to get up at 4 o'clock. The swimming part was cancelled because it was so windy.

It is so windy that the seagulls are actually flying backwards

This is a view of all the beach boxes

This is my favorite beach box

Today we went to Luna Park then we went for a drive and met Mum's cousin Michelle. At Luna Park, I had a ticket for unlimited rides.

This is the entrance of Luna Park

This is the place were you get tickets and it says admit one

I am next to a sign saying, Please queue safely. Queue jumpers will get torn in half and eaten by demons

This is some of the famous Luna Park

I am in a bumper car

They are very fast

This is a roller coaster called the silly serpent

It goes at about 50 kilometers an hour

I am getting on the Coney Tower

Then it drops fast

It goes up high (13.5 metres)

Ned Kelly Glenrowan

2016-11-04T01:42:00.001-07:00

Ned Kelly was one of the most infamous bushrangers. He was wanted for helping another bushranger and he killed a police officer. His family and his gang probably got killed and he was hanged n te Melbourne Jail in 1880. The gang was Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, Today I have been to a museum in Glenrowan about him.

this is a statue of him in his armour

i am looking at a replica of his armour

this iss a wanted sign of Ned Kelly

This is what his house looked like

Jugiong, Gundagai, Albury

2016-11-02T19:47:00.003-07:00

We are going south in New South Wales and are now at the border in Albury. We have free camped in all three places.

Jugiong

John and Dianne suggested we stay at Jugiong. The showgrounds were huge and had at least 30 RVs. We made a donation in the box before we left. We were going to have a swim but it was too late and too cold. Then the next day we saw that it didn't open till 2pm. When we looked, the three pools were all empty.

This reminded me of Simpson and his donkey

Bushrangers were robbers on the hgihways

Gundagai

At Gundagai we stayed at night near the river. There were cows behind the fence and a river. A very long ancient bridge was being renovated. The next day Nana got a haircut and I used the rest of the wifi. It costed Nana $150 for more wifi.

There is a song about Gundagai.
Where the dog sits on the tucker box 9 miles from Gudagai

This is the story of the dog on the tucker box.

The old bridge and some cows

Albury

We are at Albury and we are at the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen leagues club (SSA). For lunch we had an Asian salad from Woolies. I had about two thirds of it and Nana had about one third. We were at the War Memorial but it was too hot so we came back to the SSA club so Nana could have coffee.

Nana says it looks crooked because it is on the side of a hill.

Questacon

2016-10-28T22:20:00.006-07:00

Cecilia and I went to Questacon . That was the science centre. There were masses of things to do. There were 8 galleries, all about different things and there was a theatre.

The first thing we saw was a marble ball that moved in water.

The next thing we saw was a sensor and you could play instruments on it .
The shape was a harp . It was fun to play on .

The third thing we saw was a speaker.
We had to talk in a normal voice and we heard it high and low and fast.
Then we had to record it.

We went to the theatre for a talk about food.
CC tasted lemon then had a tablet and tasted it again.
This time it tasted like lemonade (Yummy!)
At the end we got blue tongues.

In the H2O gallery was saw the cycle of rain.

CC spent ages with the machine that sucked up scarves
and then they floated down again

The moving lights felt funny.

At this table the wind kept our helicopters in the air.

This was our tower just before it collapsed.

When we were leaving we danced with a statue.

Parliament House

2016-10-28T08:04:00.002-07:00

I went on the discovery trail at Old Parliament House. I saw the Magna Carta. I went on a super hero discovery trail

New Parliament House

I lay on the grass to take this photo.

The Royal Australian Mint

2016-10-27T02:12:00.002-07:00

I am at the Royal Australian Mint and I only got 20 minutes so don't blame me that this is short. First I saw a box of 2000 1$ coins and I learnt how they make it. Secondly I saw a robotic arm that picks up the money and drops it with the others.

Thirdly I made a one dollar coin. That is all.

Australian War Memorial Canberra

2016-10-26T00:11:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the Canberra War Memorial and it was totally awesome. When I went there I saw the history of the ANZAC and other wars. I saw a video of a dogfight and it is by the guy who made The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings and it is about the Allies vs the Germans. The World War 1 tour has an auto guide tour where you have a device and tells you thing and projects on a wall.

Hudson with a man on a donkey!

The ANZAC loading boat where the soldiers traveled on. ->

A big boat, enough to fit about 13 people on it.

A big helicopter with a clay model inside.

On the bridge of the HMAS Brisbane

Canberra

2016-10-23T19:19:00.002-07:00

We are staying with Nana's friends at Queanbeyan. it is close to Canberra but in NSW

Gabrielle, Elizabeth and Cecilia are cooking a cake

Canberra is the capital of Australia. Sydney and Melbourne both wanted to be the capital so they made a separate city in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Canberra means Meeting Place. It is the place where our parliament meets. I am staying at Canberra for a few days because there are way too many things to do in one day.

National dinosaur Museum

Cockington Green

Telstra Tower

History in Cowra

2016-10-22T03:02:00.001-07:00

The Japanese Gardens

The War Cemetery

We went to the War Cemetery and we learnt about how much Cowra means to Australian history. There is an Australian cemetery with a few graves and a Japanese cemetery with hundreds of graves because of the breakout.
It was very interesting!

The Cowra Breakout

I have had an interesting day including a 9 min hologram video of the Cowra Breakout.

For breakfast I had coco pops and lunch was chicken, cheese, tomato and gherkin and dinner was eggs. I cooked the eggs on the barbecue and on the way back to the van half of Nana's egg blew away. I am going to have two chocolates. I got a call from Mummy and they were having Indian dinner.

I also have my class mates reading this blog of mine. I am happy to know that.

A lazy day at Bathurst

2016-10-21T00:31:00.001-07:00

Today I am in Bathurst and I can't go anywhere because Nana has a really sore back. We went around the Bathurst raceway circuit twice. We have to wait till tomorrow so she can go to a physiotherapist.

Nana put some ebooks on the iPad. I read Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior and the second one too. I listened Audio books such as Zombie Bums from Uranus and There's an Alien in my Belly Button, Dodos are Forever, Mr Von Gobstopper's Arcade and Unfortunately the Milk.

Jenolan Caves

2016-10-19T01:27:00.000-07:00

This morning Nana and I went to the Jenolan caves and went on the "Diamond Tour" and we saw this growing stalagmite that is very big and protected. The caves are more than 300,000 years old. the stalagmites and tites grow about one mm every 100 years RARELY. New caves are still being discovered! Our tour took an hour and a half

This stalagmite is called Lots Wife

These are stalagtites and stalagmites

This is an interesting formation

We are standing in the Diamond Cave

I'm standing near a shawl formation

I'm on my way up from the underground river

This is the entrance to the cave.

Adventures in the Blue Mountains

2016-10-18T23:37:00.000-07:00

I have left Richmond and I am in the Blue Mountains. Some towns here are called after the three explorers who crossed the Blue Mountains first. They were called Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson

I went to Scenic World and I went on the railway (the steepest train track in the world). I was going to go on the cliff hanger mode. It’s angle is 64 degrees but Nana has a sore back, so we went on original mode.

I went on the Cableway and saw The Three Sisters. There is an aboriginal legend that says they were beautiful girls who were turned into rocks.

A view of ??? Valey

These are the three sisters. they look as if they had sunglasses

these wheels move the cable car

I am waiting for the sky rail

looking up at the steep railway track

a map of the park

I am waiting more

this is orphan's rock

The Skyway went 247 meters above a rainforest. I stood on the glass floor and looked down. It was exciting.

Later we went down to Duckmaoli St Reserve and camped there. We saw a dead wombat and a lot of dead kangaroos on the road.

Four Days in Sydney

2016-10-16T23:09:00.003-07:00

We have arrived at Richmond and we are staying at the Richmond Club out in the car park with about ten other vans to let people know we aren't squatting in the car park. Richmond is about one hour and a half from the Central Station at Sydney because we are in the western suburbs. There are 25 platforms at Central and our one is 18 and we easily got lost. We even caught the wrong train on Saturday and had to go back to Central. On Saturday we went to Bondi Beach on a tour bus. We drove past really expensive houses like five million dollars! On Sunday we went to Darling Harbour we were going to go to IMAX theatre but it is closed until 2019 for refurbishment! We had a long walk to the correct jetty to go on a ferry to Manly. I went up to the top and got sprayed by water. These are the great photos I took.

I am climbing high

I am getting ready to go to Manly

This is an old fashion light between modern building

This is the view of the city and the Sydney Tower

The Opera house is a famous land mark world wide

This is the Fort Denison

It is windy and wet

I am getting home on a ferry and it was pretty quick because we didn't stop

Today was wet so we didn't go to the zoo. We will go there when I come back to Sydney to go home. As well, Nana had a bad back and could hardly walk so we went to the Queen Victoria Building. Then we caught a train to North Sydney so that we could could go over the Sydney harbour Bridge. (NANA WILL WORK OUT HOW TO TURN THESE PHOTOS AROUND)
Nana said I could take my tablet today and hunt Pokemon. I saw a Squirtle but i couldn't catch it.

This sis a stained glass window and it is very old and is in Queen Victoria building

This is a very in clock in QVB

A Wet Day in Newcastle

2016-10-13T22:36:00.001-07:00

In Newcastle it was pouring rain all day. We stayed in the van most of the day but we went to the science centre for 2 hours. At night we stayed at a caravan park because it was still raining.

These are the sculptures outside made of curled steel.

This was a huge globe hanging in the entry.

I am speaking in a machine that repeats what I said with a time delay.

These are towers you need to build without moving something bigger onto something else.

I am throwing a ball into a speed checker

Burning steel to melt it.

Moving the melted steel in a vat.

The Farm Stop-over

2016-10-12T00:20:00.000-07:00

We stopped in Buladelah because Nana liked the name of the town. I played in the payground for a while. We made sandwiches and had a picnic. I had tomato and lettuce on mine and it wasn't cut.

This sign is about the Tree of Remembrance.
The tree looks pretty sick.

I am in a monopoly jail at McDonalds

I touched an electric fence with a blade of grass.

The chickens hid in the hen house

We picked mulberries of this tree and ate them.
Our hands and faces were red with juice.

Today I am in Buttai and we made dinner and it was noodles with ketchup. The farm is called a Members Stop Over (MSO) because members of the motorhome club can stay free with other members.

The farmer's name was Frank. I met cows and Frank showed me how to touch electrical wires but it only tickled. His dog's name is Yonni, he will chase a ball all day

Frank held the chicken for me to pat and I did.

Taree

2016-10-11T02:38:00.001-07:00

Today I left Bellingen and we went down all the way to Taree. On the way stopped at Kempsie. We stopped at the bakery for lunch and had a pie each with beef. I had tomato sauce with mine. Nana got a coffee and I got chocolate milk. When we were leaving town I took a photo of Nana with a robot sitting on a chair!

Is this a Steampunk?

I thought he had lived a tough life

Nana felt sorry for him

Do you think he has had a rough time? Then we were going to stay at Coopernook but we weren't tired so we went to Taree and stayed at the showgrounds.

Heading South

2016-10-10T00:03:00.001-07:00

Today it is 10:30 and I have headed down south to stop and camp at camp site 68 down in the direction of Newcastle. But instead we stayed at Bellingen JNR AFL Bulldogs free camp. I know that for sure because it is on the shed next to me.

Do you think Nana is reasonable letting me have only 14 hours of technology a week (2 hours a day) instead of having 3 and a half hours very Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday? To answer click on Comment and add a comment. OK?

Also back to the good stuff, It took about 45 minutes to get here in Fernmount and before we left Maclean we had a coffee with Annie.

Annie said that Les and I looked like koalas

Fishing Day

2016-10-08T18:30:00.001-07:00

Today, I hope I go fishing and catch an/some eatable fish from the Mighty Clarence River. Last time I caught a baby cat fish in shark creek and it was heavy for just a baby! I haven't been fishing yet but I will later.

I played with toy soldiers given to me by my brother and then I wrote in Annie and Les's guest book and I wrote 'Thank you Les for taking me fishing and thank you Annie for letting me stay here.' For lunch I had curried chicken, cheese and corn pizza (4C pizza).

I just got home from town after shopping. First I had to wait for Les to clean the car and then we bought some food for dinner. I just went fishing and caught another 2 catfish and released them and tried to catch something to eat but we had no luck. Annie had cooked a seafood soup but we didn't have fresh fish to add.

I am listening to music right now which is Sunday 4:42 PM 9/10/2016 and I will soon leave to go to a camp site at South West Rocks.

Yamba and Iluka

2016-10-08T01:53:00.002-07:00

Les and I fishing off the bridge

It only took me 5 minutes to catch a cat fish.

I went with Nana on a car ferry yesterday and today I went on a ferry for people and went from Yamba to Iluka and back. It took 20 minutes each way.

When we got home I went fishing and caught a baby cat fish! I threw it back int the water.Tomorrow I will go fishing with Les again! Tonight I will sleep and wonder if I will catch a fish. Also the baby catfish was called by another guest 'the elusive catfish of shark creek'!

Maclean

2016-10-06T18:13:00.001-07:00

When we left Woodenbong and went through Kyogle, Casino and Lismore and we were about to stay at New Italy but we decided not to and went to Maclean to stay for a few days.

In two days I will go fishing with a man named Les. We are staying with Les and Annie. They have a dog called Dean. If he was human he would be ninety-nine years old! He still likes to play and I threw a ball for him to fetch. Later Les fed Dean dinner and then Annie fed Dean and Dean was still hungry!

Earlier we visited Nana's friend Tracie and in back yards I saw Kangaroos with Joeys. I also went to the beach at Brooms Head and went far out and rode on big waves. We saw several whales.

At Brooms Head

I went right out

Tracie and Nana and I

When I had dinner I had two big pieces of chicken, 2 lettuce leaves, 8 tomato slices and one piece of cheese.