Friday 22nd May - Greenbah Creek

Friday 22^nd May

On Friday we went to the World Peace Bell. This is me ringing the World Peace Bell.

After the World Peace Bell we went to the Age of Fishes Museum. Which is 1 out of 2 museums on fishes in the whole world! At the Museum we got little audio things because if we saw a numbers on the walls, signs or fossils we could type it in and watch a little video. After we had gone to the fish museum hopped back in the car to go to a little town where a couple of BushRangers got their loot and then took it in to the mountains to bury it. Caleb and I were hungry so we got to choose between a lolly snake or a packet of chips. I chose a lolly snake and Caleb chose a packet of chips. After we them we hopped back into the car and drove to Greenbah Creek Campground.

This is a fish trying to eat my head.

This is us playing fish and fishing rods.

this is Caleb and I sticking our heads through the holes

Mum's note:
The World Peace Bell is in Civic Square in Cowra. We learned that Peace Bells are cast from melted coins and medals donated by countries committed to world peace. Australia's is the only World Peace Bell not in the host country's capital city.

The Age of Fishes Museum is located in Canowindra. Canowindra hit the fossil world map when a bulldozer building a local road unearthed a fossil bed full of ancient fishes. The bulldozer driver saved the unusual and sizeable slab but it went forgotten for a long time before it was brought to the attention of a palaeontologist, and then its enormous significance went unnoticed for another extended period. The local people have since been very instrumental in retrieving the fossils, particularly in supplying and funding the earthmoving equipment. Much of the fossil bed still remains buried under the road awaiting funding to be dug up one day, however, digging up roads doesn't come cheap, and it is a credit to the local community what has been achieved to date. There is a sufficient abundance of fossil specimens such that they allow you to inspect them very closely with magnifying glasses.

Slabs of fossil bed full of fish fossils.

The town with the bushranger history is Eugowra. Eugowra is about 5km from the largest bushranger heist at Escort Rock. Some of the gold was never retrieved and is rumoured to be hidden in the local mountains.

A massive and very well done bushranger themed mural.

There are a number of great murals in Eugrowra, and a friendly local even tipped us of to look for Wally in this one!

Where's Wally? Found him!