March, 30th

Wagga Wagga

Today we spent some time in the little town with the funny name. Founded in 1829, while Captain Charles Sturt travelled up the Murrumbidgee River.

Nowadays Wagga Wagga is the biggest inland city in New South Wales with a population of 55.000. The streets are unusally broad and there lots of small and bigger parks. We visited the extraordinarily well kept botanical gardens (by far neater than the one in Bremen...)

Then there is a small Zoo with kangaroos, emus and local birds. Everything is open to the public, no tickets necessary! We were quite impressed by the arts center: a small museum for glass, a theater and a very modern library with internet-access. Finally an opportunity for us to look at our website.

Thanks to our helpers at home and due to the time-difference, yesterdays diary-entry was already posted. Although we keep on sending our fleetfinder-signal, our position wasn't indicated on the site. We will look into that.

What else happened? Well, we visited another vineyard closeby. There you could barbeque your own lunch. Too bad that there are no vineyards around Bremen. Later that day we took a boat-trip on the Murrumbidgee. Almost for an hour we listened to interesting stories and explanations about the river, the city, the history and nature. That was another impressive event!