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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