Gundagai 25 November 2005

Woke up in the morning to typical Canberra weather – raining and cold! Said goodbye to George and Karen and set off for the Canberra War Memorial. We haven’t been for years and it has had a lot of work done on it. There is a lot more interpretive material and a lot more interactive displays, especially for the young children. We were both very moved by a film they had on the Japanese bombing of Darwin. Jim was in Darwin during the first attack and rescued a number of people injured in the raid. That was when he joined the Army, eventually serving in New Guinea. Maybe it is just that we are getting older, but we were both struck with how young the soldiers looked – many mere boys!
After lunch, we went to Cottington Green – an old favourite of Peter’s. While we had not been there since the girls were little, not much had changed, except for the miniature trees that had grown considerably. As it was getting late, we put our foot down (doesn’t 85kph seem fast in a motorhome), and got to the Dog on the Tuckerbox near Gundagai, before we stopped for the night.