Digeridoo playing!

Hey!!

Its the end of our stay in Canberra already.. but I don't think any more time would be required. The city is pretty small, about the population of Halifax; however, unlike Halifax there isn't much to do here and the shops and cafe's all close very early. Saturday was mostly spent with travel, sunday we rented a bike and toured around the main lake and war memorial. Monday we went to parliament and had the great luck to observe the house of representatives in session, during question period. This included most MP's, the prime minister, his cabinet, and the leader of the opposition. The questions were interesting, I enjoyed it. The parliament is massive, its hard to believe the size almost.

I have been looking for a digeridoo since I arrived in Australia, and most have been very obviously fake (incorrect wood, shape, non aboriginal design etc) but luckily at the parliament they were selling authentic pieces shipped in from the Darwin area. I purchased a great digeridoo, which I really enjoy. It has already been shipped back to Halifax, I only had a short chance to try playing (which is shown below).

Today (tuesday) we went to the museum, and met an aboriginal who lucky for me was a digeridoo teacher! I received some great tips unfortunately I won't be able to try them until June. His cousin was actually a famous player (David Hudson). I purchased one of his CDs, and used it in the video below as part of the joke.

Tomorrow we are off to Shepparton for some pear picking.. and then Melbourne! I don't expect we will have any updates for at least a week, probably from the Melbourne area.

I hope everyone is having a great winter!

Cheers,

Andrew