Day 81: Carnarvon

Today the sun was back out first thing in the morning. The kids and I headed to the local Saturday market in the town centre. We had a look at the crafts stalls, picked up some fruit and veg from the local farms, and had mini pancakes between rain showers.

Once back at the caravan park we picked up John and headed to the Carnarvon Space & Technology Museum. The site had several of the old dishes and radars used for tracking during the Apollo moon landings. Part of the museum covered the history of the Base Station through the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab eras before it was shut down in the mid-1970s. The kids favourite part of the museum was the hands on science room. Here there were several simulation activities from landing a space shuttle on a runway to docking with the international space station. There was a green screen to "take" photos of yourself on the moon, a science quiz to do, and a vending machine where you could pretend to buy various foods to have in space and learn the pro and cons of those foods (chips = too many crumbs; baked beans = good that they stick to your spoon but makes you too gassy; lollies = can spill and bounce around hitting you in the head while trying to sleep). Finally near the back there were four old Atari games to play - John and Theo kept trading the top score on Gallaxia.