A Trip To...Sunny...Canberra

This past weekend Nick & I went down to Canberra to visit my friend Mel on what was supposed to be a skiing trip. Unfortunately the skiing portion was canceled due to the massive wind and rain on the ski field, but we still had a great time with Mel and it was nice to get away for a mini vacation for the first time in...well...at least a year or two.

On the drive down I had to coerce Nick into taking some light photos of the road on our way down to Canberra, but once he took the first one and had a look at the result, he was hooked and got a little crazy with it. I used to love taking these photos when driving at night with my parents and it was awesome to see Nick enjoying it as much as I do.

Here are a few of them.



We surprisingly didn't take many photos of ourselves in front of touristy things, but did take a few of us getting ready to go out and in transit, including a crazy Nick!



There was a Nick Cave exhibition which was incredible, but we couldn't take any photos in there. You can find info on the exhibition >>>HERE<<< We also visited the Telstra tower and the National Mint, which Nick and I completely geeked out about. We'd seen the "How It's Made"episode on the Discovery Channel about how coins are made and were extremely excited to check it out. If you're going to go to the mint, go on a work day because weekends are kind of...dead. The orange mechanical arm that moves the drums however, was still awesome and did a little bow when it had finished it's routine. Again, the geeking out ensued. I don't have any photos from the mint, but we did mint some $1 coins ourselves...which oddly enough cost us $3 each....

Anywho, these are some of our photos from the Telstra tower including a panorama of the view of Canberra from the tower. Ridiculously high and ridiculous vertigo.

Enjoy.