Following a talk with dad, I'm posting a snapshot of my childhood in Australia. It's not a comparison with anywhere else - I moved here when I was 5 and dont recall much before then. It's just a look back at things I've done while growing up. Hopefully, for any children who read this that may be moving to Australia, it will give them a little insight into what it's like here.
For the record, I've just turned 17, am currently in year 11 at school and also doing a school based apprenticeship (day release & weekends). I've lived in Melbourne, Cairns, Townsville and the Lockyer Valley.
A
Air cadets
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: 2000 YEARS OF TREASURES at the Australian Museum in Sydney
Aquariums
Ammunition Storage at Charters Towers
Amathyst - fossicking off the Duncan Rd
AFL
A-League
Arcades
Aboriginal Rock art
Aviation Museums
Astronomy - Brian Cox Live
Audience Participation
B
Barista Traing Course
Beaches
Birds
Body Boarding
Bob - @Bobj
Bouncing
Bungee Jumping
Banana Boat
BBQ'ing
Bowling
C
Cable Skiing
Cable cars
Camping
Campfires
Canoeing
Chainsaw - undertook a Chainsaw Training Course with dad, before being unleashed on our land
Cinema
Citizenship
Climbing
Climbing (into) trees
Circus
Camels
Cooking with Miguel Maestre
Collecting - Rocks, Gems, Minerals, Fossils
D
Digging the paydirt
Dresssing up
Dining out DIY
Drone Flying
E
Emergency Response
Exploring
Endevour River - following in Captain Cook's footsteps
Fishing
Feeding the Fish
Flying over the Whitsundays
Feeding the Crocs
Ferry across Sydney Harbour
Funfair
Footy
Friends
Fossil Prepping
Fossil Hunting
Fairy Penguins at Phillip Island
Fencing - living on acerage with a variety of animals, I've become quite adept at fencing
G
Gaol (Old Melbourne)
Gardening
Garnets - Fossicking for Garnets off the Plenty Highway in the NT
Ghost Towns
Gorges - Katherine & Cobbold
Grumpy old man - Dad not too happy after I'd tipped the boat (twice)
H
Hanging Rock (Picnic at)
Herding the Flock
Herberton Historic Village
HMAS Cairns - Open day at the Naval base
Holidays - Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA to name a few
Horse Riding
I
Indoors - I do all the things any other teenager would do, but i won't bore you with photos of me playing consoles, on my phone, reading, watching netflix, studying etc,
J
Jamie Oliver - A cooking course I did at Ipswich
Jobs - Part time job at the Fish Inn in Townsville & now work part time as an apprentice Chef in the Lockyer Valley
K
Kangaroo
Karate
Kayaking
L
Lapidary
Learning to Drive
M
Museums - lots of them (dad's quite a fan)
Military Museums
Musicals - King Kong, Evil Dead, Miss Saigon, Mama Mia
Music Festivals - Adele, Coldplay, Chainsmokers, Ed Sheeran, Mumford & Sons, Bernard Fanning, Vance Joy to name a few
Mine Tours
N
Netflix - like any teenager, no photo required
O
Observatories - Siding Spring Observatory, Parkes Radio Telescopes, Chillagoe & Charleville
On Parade
P
Paddle Steamers at Exchuca
Pets
Pools
Pool
Q
Quad Biking
R
Ravenwood Mining remains
Relaxing
Red Centre - Alice Springs
Rugby League
Riding my bike
Road Trips
S
Scouts
Segways
Ships
Snakes
Snorkelling
Steering boats
Sunsets - Mindil Beach
Swings
School
Swimming in Mataranka Therman Springs
T
Theme Parks
Titanic The Exhibition
Tiger Cubs
Trains
Tree Top walks
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs - Melbourne Museum
U
Uranium mine at Mary Kathleen
Underground Hosiptal at Mt Isa
V
Volcanic Laver Tubes at Undara
W
Waterfalls
WaterParks
Weightlifing (rock)
Wrecks - outback truck
World War II guns - Darwin
X
X is always a struggle, so an anecdote will have to suffice. On one of our roadtrips, we were stoppping in a Caravan Park in Darwin. There was a zipline in the park. I was struggling to reach it/get it to move, so my older brother Mat said 'step aside, Ill show you how it's done'
Which he did - until about half way across when he fell off. One X-Ray later, the diagnosis of broken arm was confirmed.
Y
Yabby fossils - digging for
Z
Zoos - Melbourne, Sydney, Australia Zoo, Currumbin, Wildlife Wonderland, Singapore to name a few
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