This it was, on the way to the start of culture we went past our local kangaroo sanctuary which was having a special mammal day. As we were so early we were in to see them doing the feeding which led to the best moment of the day for Laura. They fed the only wombat they had. Firstly wombats are Lauras favourite Australian animal. Secondly this wombat called warren was 20! {Almost as old as us!} They only normally live to 15 so he was pretty special and thirdly he was blind! This made him very special indeed. He was coaxed out of his makeshift burrow by shifting some of his straw and giving him a good sniff of a cob of corn. Eventually he came all the way out and was huge! He was super cute too. Once he had his corn he wasn't interested in the rest of his food and reversed into his burrow taking his straw with him.
This was a good start to culture day! We got our second Culture in Bowral, home of famous cricketer Don Bradman. First we had to drop off some bedsheets that needed to be returned and when we got there the carpark was full of cars. Not just cars special 'shine and show' cars! Deb took her sheets back and we pondered the cars. Nothing was that exciting but Myles did like the Morris 1000s. {His grandpa used to collect and restore them a little like his father collects clios? Maybe I should be a little worried about this trend!}
After this the next stop of culture was for Myles in an ART GALLERY! His favourite... This Gallery was full of weird things and Magpies. But we did see a marvellous recycled wooden table with this inserted into the top. It was brilliant and the only thing that we liked. We also weren't allowed to take photos of it either so SHH!
After a quick look around we were off again to the other side of Bowral where we were cultured up on Don Bradman in the Bradman Musesum. This was very interesting and we played lots of different versions of indoor cricket!
When in the gift shop Myles couldn't resist changing their computer displaying their website to our blog and caused general havoc as usual!
After this we had a beautiful lunch in the cafe, Here's a photo of Debs veggie burger. Ours were similar but meaty and not as pretty.
Food eaten and we were on the road again.
!Fun fact Mary Poppins was written in Bowral!
We had a tour of Bowrals many golf courses, spas and retreats. Afer this Myles was driving and being guided into the back and beyond. I knew roughly where we were as we have been in the area when we went to Kangaroo Valley. We eneded up turning off at the Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk. It is the only walk of its kind in NSW and one of only a handful of elevated steel treeop walks in the world.
A few fun facts
- The Illawarra Fly Treetop walk is 500 metres long with an average height of 25 metres
- Knights Tower is 45 metres high
- The Treetop walk has a 280km/hr wind speed design
- The cantilevers can hold a maximum weight of 28 tonne or 800 wombats!!
- The treetop walk was pre-fabricated in Launceston (Tasmania) and shipped to Melbourne. 20 trucks were used to transport the sections via road to site, where the structure was assembled and erected.
- The Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk is located on 40 acres of private land.
We did the walk without Deb as she had done it before so we set off alone. Our first stop was a kids photo opportunity Myles wanted to have his photo taken in. Turns out there were lots throughout the walk!
We had a walk through the forest past a wombat burrow to the top of the steps. We walked up to the first walk way. We followed the track around going on all the cantilevers (suspension walkways) and took in the beautiful views of the Illawarra where we have been living for the past however long we have been with Deb and Ian. It was beautiful we could see from the Blue Mountains to Wollongong on the coast. We then had a race like a couple of kids up to the top of the Knights Tower {Myles easily won}
Again more beautiful views of our countryside. {Deb chooses culture very well!}
Once we finished our walk we were back off again and made a detour to a waterfall sign we saw. A slight dirt road and we were there. Deb wanted Myles to drive faster like Ian in the rally car but the poor Peaugot wouldn't have been happy with that so we trotted on at a steady pace. We got to a crossroads of steps or wheelchair access. We did the only sensible thing and had a race to see what was faster! Deb took the longer wheelchair access and we took the shorter steps. In our favour it was and we arrived at the lookout first! After a few minutes we could hear a Deb voice and called her down to where we were. We had a better and different lookout to her track! Oh well. We took some beautiful photos and went on a bit of a walk around the top of the waterfall.
With the winter nights drawing in fast we took a hasty walk back to the car and headed for home. Little did we know there was still more culture to see, we were taking to another little town outside Bowral called Berrima. On the way we went past the largest historic book shops which also looks after old important documents in specaily heated rooms etc. Sadly that was closed as it was now very dark and we headed on to Berrima which had lots to see including a good old prison. This concluded Culture Day as we all went back home rather tired! Deb days are always busy but Culture Day was something else!
Sorry this blog was so late we have been busy working beavers recently with Laura building websites, cartoons and demos for Ians clients and Myles redecorating the outside of the house!
Lots of love from us both!
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