Canberra to Gundagi

Got up early this morning and drove back down the central area of Canberra and went to the National Museum of Australia. The museum is in a strikingly modern building on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin. The Main entrance gives little away as to what is in the museum and a long sloping corridor leads up to the exhibition halls, however to enter them you have to wait to enter a rotating cinema called Circa, As you sit down in a quadrant shaped theatre a large screen explodes into life with images of the development of Australia as a continent, other screens on the roof expand the images around you. After a couple of minutes the whole of the seating area starts to move around in a clockwise direction and stops at another set of screens, this time showing images from aboriginal beginnings, then the seating moves again to show the early days of colonial influences and other settlers to the land, finally it moves again to show the modern Australia. Ech different quadrant has a different layout of screens, audio and lighting effects and gives you an overview of the different things covered in the museum itself. However once inside whilst laid out well it seemed to be lacking something but I'm not sure what. There was a large section on colonial Australia which was closed off for renovation and the areas on Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders seemed very small. Finally there was an exhibition called K-Space where you could design your own house or transport of the future and then view it in a 3D world which was really aimed at primary aged school children but the curators were really keen that everyone took part. I wasn't really sure where the museum was aiming itself at and to me seemed similar in some ways to Urbis in Manchester.
Anyway, back in car on on the road South, sort of, I had to go back North to to pick up the Hulme Highway towards Melbourne. After a couple of hours driving the sky again seemed to get very dark and a storm was brewing. I managed to skirt around it at Yass and then stopped at a small place called Gundagi. The sky had now cleared and it was a pleasant evening. I found a campsite just off the Highway at a bargain $10 with better facilities than the last night. (I'm really becoming to think that campsite fees are a complete lottery with regards for the bang for the buck!) I even had a nice grassed area with a large tree to shade from the morning sun. I drove up into the town which was literally a single wide street and stopped at the IGA superstore for some supplies. Back on the campsite after some tea I settled in for the night. Around 1:30am it started to rain then rain some more and the wind got up. At on point I was holding onto the poles of the tent to stop it being flattened onto me, the rain was torrential and then the thunder and lightening began. The tent being made for the lovely Australian sun was no match for the rain and it was soon coming straight through the outer layer. The wind had subsided so I quickly bagged by sleeping bag and made a dash for the car. Luckily my bag didn't get too wet but I had to pour the water out of the inside of the tent in the morning!