Day 10
Walked over the two bridges. Canberra, as the capital of Australia, has many national buildings located here. Most of them are in the middle of the city, around Lake Burley Griffin. On the left of this sketch, on the other side of the Lake, is the War Memorial at the top of the red gravel Anzac Parade, with Mount Ainslie behind. On the right is Old Parliament House with the tall triangular flagpole of New Parliament House rising behind. That flag is the size of a double-decker bus. In the middle is the long-standing but unofficial Aboriginal Tent Embassy with its sacred fire, tents protected from the rain by blue plastic sheeting and the embassy itself, a converted shipping container. To try to persuade the tent embassy to go away, the Government built Reconciliation Place which includes the grey corridor on the left and the bright European Green grass. Needless to say, it doesn't say much about reconciliation and the Tent Embassy will not be tidied away. 5km