Today proved to be another full day of activities for the South Australian cubs and leaders that I was with.
Today’s morning visit was to the National Museum (http://www.nma.gov.au/index.html) The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum. It also has a focus on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and the interaction of Australians with the environment.
One of the points that captured the interest of Group Nine was the radio room, where there group spent considerable time. The down side was that there was not enough time to see everything or spend the time going through the shop – there were certainly some good bargains in there and Akela was disappointed that she didn’t get a chance to spend more time going through there to check out things as much as she would have liked. It was certainly a good visit and the areas where the kids could do stuff was also good.
After eating lunch at the museum, we headed to the CSRIO Discovery Centre. It was noted that Akela fell asleep on the drive – in fact, she fell asleep this morning as well, before we had even gotten onto the Cotter Road! How bad is that? Yet, she still can’t seem to sleep in the morning pass 5:30am, no matter what time she goes to bed. Bet she’s looking forward to getting home!
CSIRO Discovery Centre (www.csiro.au/places/Discovery.html) was another interesting to visit. It is a unique public science centre showcasing current Australian research and technology from CSIRO, Australia's largest research organization. The cubs certainly had a great time doing the hands on activities and being able to handle several insects and animals. Some of the leaders were also able to have things crawling all over them as well.
The time here was short, and it didn’t seem like we had been there long before we were heading to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (www.cdscc.nasa.gov). This is certainly a place we would recommend people visit when they visit Canberra. This was place while not huge in physical terms was huge in being able to capture the minds and imaginations of the cubs who were there. The talk was fascinating and certainly a enjoyable place for us to visit. There are a number of former cubs in staff, including one who was a youth member in South Australia and earned his Queen Scout Award. The talk certainly held the attention of all there.
Once we finished here, it was time to return to camp for our final night at Camp Cottermouth. Once tea was completed, it was time to relax and watch a movie. A relatively early night for Akela – we’ll see how it goes tonight with sleeping in past 5:30am!
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