Tuesday 26th May
On Tuesday we packed up and drove to
Dubbo to see the R.F.D.S (Which is the Royal Flying Doctor Service.)
We got to see the flying doctor planes.
We got to watch a video about R.F.D.S. I learnt that the $20 dollar note has all the things that started the R.F.D.S.
After the video about the R.F.D.S we bought a book of games for me and a put together your own card board aeroplane for Caleb.
Mum's note:
On the way out of Peak Hill we stopped to look at the tourist gold mine. This gold mine differs from previous sites we have seen, in that it is an open cut mine that has dug out the site of an original underground mine.
At the RFDS I was impressed to find that the local community makes and donates children's quilts, and every child who flies with the Dubbo RFDS is given a quilt to keep.
We got to watch a video about R.F.D.S. I learnt that the $20 dollar note has all the things that started the R.F.D.S.
Mum's note:
On the way out of Peak Hill we stopped to look at the tourist gold mine. This gold mine differs from previous sites we have seen, in that it is an open cut mine that has dug out the site of an original underground mine.
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| Peak Hill tourist gold mine. |
We were also reminded that it was an Adelaide lad, Alfred Traeger whose inventions altered outback communications. Firstly he came up with the morse code typewriter....
.... then he invented the pedal wireless. This second invention revolutionised communications in the Outback. Isabel is not convinced that having to pedal to create electricity to talk to her school teachers would have been a good thing though!
After Dubbo we stopped at the Terramungamine Aboriginal grinding grooves. This is a site along the Macquarie River where the local people sharpened their axes and spears, and sometimes ground seed.
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| Terramungamine Aboriginal grinding grooves. |
We finished the day by arriving in Coonabarabran.
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