Day 145: Canberra

Today we set out to visit a few of Canberra's attractions. First we visited the National Film and Sound Archives which was good. It showed the development of audio and visual media in Australia over the decades.

Next we thought we were going to the National Portrait Gallery but we actually ended up in the High Court of Australia so we wandered around there for a while looking intelligent. We went into the main courtroom where a school group was having a tour - we were able to take a photograph in the courtroom while the kids were there.

We discovered that the full bench of the high court would be sitting at 2:15pm that day so off we went to the National Portrait Gallery to have lunch and look at the many portraits on display with the aim to sit in the Gallery of the High Court that afternoon.

The Portrait Gallery was good - like the Art Gallery but all portraits - dah....  One good thing about the portraits is that they all have a little bio beside them giving information about the person portrayed in the portrait.

It was then off to the high court again where we had to leave our camera and phone in a locker - we found it really interesting and sat there for an hour watching the proceedings.

We left because we were in a two hour parking area and did not want to get a ticket. We went down to Lake Burley Griffin and took some photos, bought some groceries, picked Brad up from work and cooked Brad dinner back at the van.

It was a busy but enjoyable day.

Lorelle at the National Film and Sound Archive

High Court