Sunday last was spent paddling on Lake Burley Griffin, we put our inflatable in, (there are lots of spots)this was close to the suburb of Yarralumla, started to go in one direction and realised it would be much the same, so turned back and there was a dragon boat being loaded by young people, obviously newbys, so we paused and watched, there were several adults teaching and just helping, then they got going and I heard all the familiar words like "TIMING" being shouted and some that were diffenent, I was itching to go over and show them how to do it, but of course I didn't, cause their action was stiff, sitting up, no bending and not enough twisting, it was great and then we headed off the other way and under a bridge and along a promenade where there was a show of many kinds of italian cars and associated stuff and we loitered about for a while watched black swans being fed by children. John was not happy with the progress we made when we each have a single paddle and he declares that he will buy a double paddle, like the one we left at home, so that he can paddle each side with it and move us along quicker.
Eventually we arrived back where we left let the boat down took off exploring and found an area with seats and tables etc overlooking the lake under some acorn trees and had our picnic lunch.
We spent the rest of the afternoon just driving around exploring, found an arboretum, but it was not a patch on the one we have at Ulverstone.
I still havn't mastered the photo thing, will put some photos on as soon as I can, ILA