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Braxton Travels Australia 2023
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Braxton Travels Australia 2023

This year is my final year of travelling Australia. I was 9 when we left and this year I turn 12. This is a year for exploring new places and revisiting some of our favourites. Read more
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    January 1, 2023
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    Slam factory

    January 10, 2023 in Australia

    Slam factory is an indoor skate park. Taj, Lachie and I were going there, while we were home for the school holidays. We went to Slam for scooter camps, homeschool lessons, and sometimes even private lessons.

    At Slam factory, I practised lots of tricks like tail whips, bar spins and 360s. We all fell over a lot and hurt ourselves, but we had lots of fun and made lots of friends.

    I had lots of fun at Slam, all the teachers were really nice, and I can’t wait to go again.    Read more

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    Mum’s birthday

    February 22, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 22 °C

    We celebrated mum’s birthday by doing lots of fun things.

    Firstly, we went out to Warne’s Cafe. Lachie and I got a crazy shake, which was ginormous, It had ice cream on top, two wafer sticks and chunks of kinder chocolate. Then Lachie and I went halves in a double bacon and egg roll. Mum had waffles with chocolate sauce, ice cream and an ice cream cone on top.

    After breakfast we went iceskating. It was mine and Lachie’s first time ice skating, and it was so much fun. We were there for four hours and by the end of it, after lots of stacks, we finally got the hang of it and dad was going so fast.

    For dinner, we went to Breakers pub and lots of people came. I had chicken nuggets and chips for dinner and some of mum's ribs and wings, they were delicious. All the kids were asking the parents for money so we could use the claw machines, we didn’t win any toys, but we did win some lollies, so it was a win.

    It was a very fun day celebrating mum’s birthday and I think mum enjoyed it too.    Read more

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    Airplane Facts

    March 3, 2023 in Australia

    The Wright brothers invented the first aeroplane in December 17th of 1903.

    The fastest plane is the Lockhead SR-71 blackbird and it can go 3500km/ph.

    Planes can fly different heights. Commercial planes can fly up to 45,000 feet, military planes can fly up to 50,000 feet and rocket powered planes can fly up to 100,000 feet.

    Planes are used for transport, racing, sports, putting out fires, military, crop dusting and research.

    Three differences between the first plane invented and modern day planes are: older aircraft lack the same fuel efficiency, have higher noise levels, and are not as environmentally friendly as newer aircraft.

    The current Australian fighter jet is The F-35A Lightning 2.    Read more

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    There’s no show like the airshow🛫

    March 5, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    On Friday and Sunday, we went to Avalon Airfield to watch the International Airshow, we watched planes do acrobatics and fly-bys, but the plane I was waiting for was the FA18F Super hornet.

    At the airshow, we saw lots of planes and here are some of them, the FA18F Super Hornet, F35A Lightning2, Hercules, Air Force Roulette, Wedgetail, Poseidon, Globemaster 3, Wing Walkers, Black Eagles and my favourite the glider with a rocket engine on it.

    My favourite aeroplane that we saw was F 18 super hornet. The F-18 is made for fighting in the military, it can go 1960 km/h and my favourite thing about it, it has bombs on the wings. At the airshow, I saw the F 18 displaying its manoeuvrability agility and raw power. When the F 18 came past we had to block our ears because it was so loud, then it would turn go straight up into the sky, dropping flares on the way.

    Friday was different to Sunday, because there was a night show, there was parachuters with flares on their feet, a rocket powered glider with flares and fireworks shooting off it, planes with lights and lasers and my favourite the great wall of fire. The commentators said it was the biggest wall of fire they’ve had since 1992, we could feel the heat from where we were sitting.

    On Sunday, we spent more time walking around and looking at displays, then we found out you can collect a free set of pins. There was a pin for each Australian aircraft and even some other cool pins. There was a couple different planes to Friday, but my favourite was the wing walkers. The wing walkers are two ladies that perform stunts on a plane while it’s flying.

    It was freezing on Friday, boiling on Sunday, I am nearly deaf from the Jets, but it was still lots of fun.    Read more

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    RampFest

    March 7, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    I was really excited to go to RampFest which is an indoor skate park in Melbourne. I wanted to go to RampFest because it had a massive foam pit. A foam pit is a big box full of square foam blocks, and a ramp going up one side of the box. Then you go as fast as you can up the ramp and practice lots of different tricks, into the foam pit.

    It was as good as I hoped and maybe we can come back next time.    Read more

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    Penguin Parade

    March 7, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 19 °C

    We sat on the sand waiting for sunset, so we could watch the penguin parade on Phillip Island.

    It was freezing, but we got there a bit early so we could get close to the fence to see the penguins, because they’re only 30 cm tall. The penguins are dark blue on their back and white on their stomach, so they camouflage with the water, making it hard for us to see when they are swimming. Once they’re on the beach, they hide in the seaweed until it is safe to quickly waddle up the beach. Some of the penguins were so fat they could barely waddle up the beach because they have been eating small fish, squid and krill for two weeks. The penguins can dive up 60 m, 80,000 times a day for its food. They spend this long eating because they are getting ready to moult for three weeks.

    After we watched the penguin parade, we went for a walk along the boardwalk, we saw some penguin burrows, moulting penguins and even some babies getting fed.

    On the night we went to see the penguins, 2121 penguins waddled up to their borrows. Little penguins only live in Australia and New Zealand, Phillip Island is one of the only places you can see little penguins in Australia.    Read more

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    Amaze’n’Things

    March 8, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    My family and I went to Amaze’n’Things on Phillip Island because mum and dad have been there before and they said it was lots of fun. We spent the whole day at Amaze’n’ Things and we did all of the activities: illusions, giant mazes, magic, putt putt, and even a jump scare room.

    My favourite thing was the maze because I love mazes. In the maze, there was four flags to collect, so Lachie and I raced mum and dad around the maze and collected all the flags, we won easily.    Read more

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    Great Ocean Road

    March 10, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Yesterday we drove along the Great Ocean Road, which is along the southern ocean and is 243 km long. We saw lots of views along the way.

    We drove along the Great Ocean Road to see all the attractions, we saw: The Apostles, Gibson Steps, London Bridge, Razorback, The Grotto and my favourite the Titty rocks.Read more

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    Rob’s place

    March 12, 2023 in Australia

    We pulled into Rob’s house. Rob is someone we met at Cactus, he lives at Port McDonald. While we were at Rob’s house, he took us to the Cray factory that he works at, we even got to hold a crayfish!

    In 2021 we visited Ewen Ponds, but we did not go in, because none of us had a wet suit. This year, we all had wetsuits, so we went and snorkelled the ponds with Rob and Andy. The ponds were very cold, I felt like I was going to freeze, but the water was crystal clear, and we found lots of Spiky Crayfish.    Read more

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    Rapid Bay and Lachie’s birthday

    March 17, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    We stayed at Rapid Bay for a week and had Lachie‘s birthday while we were there, we had lots of fun stuff planned for the week.

    When we arrived, first thing we did was set up, and then we rode off and made some friends. The best thing was dad moved our caravan, so we were next to our friends.

    While we were at Rapid Bay, we went diving for scallops, it was our first time so we didn’t really know what we’re doing, but we ended up finding about 10. We cooked them up, but I didn’t like them so I just ate the steak.

    On Lachie’s birthday, he woke me up so we could go and jump on mum and dad, to wake them up. Then it was present time. Lachie got an RC helicopter, Slime, a finger scooter and a rainbow monkey. Before breakfast, Lachie flew his RC helicopter perfectly. We had two massive waffles for breakfast, but while I was eating my waffle, I accidentally swallowed my wobbly tooth. After breakfast, we did the pinata with our friend. There was lots of lollies in there and we all ate our lollies that day. After eating all our lollies, we went and jumped off the jetty we did lots of cool moves like 360s, dance moves, and our friend’s dad even did a backflip. In the afternoon, we swam at the beach and went skurfing. After we went skurfing we had cake, for dinner Lachie chose garlic prawns, but they were really spicy, but I still liked them.

    We had lots of fun playing with Isaac and we miss him already.    Read more

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    Smoky Quartz

    March 23, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    My favourite gem is smoky quartz, so when we heard of a place where you can find some real beauties we had to go. It was called Beear Fossicking Grounds.

    Some lovely old people called Lou and Wendy let us go down their hole and find some smoky quartz. Their hole was massive! Their hole was about 6m deep, you had to climb down a ladder and then down some stairs. There was heaps of smoky quartz. We found more smoky quartz in one day then we would’ve by ourselves in one week. We also found some geodes that had smoky quartz crystals inside. All smoky quartz crystals grow inside a geod, then when a smoky quartz crystal gets too big it breaks free and that’s when we find it in the wall of the hole.

    It was a lot of hard work and it was very special digging out my favourite crystals, and knowing that we were the first people to ever see that crystal.    Read more

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    Southern 80

    March 25, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Over the weekend, we watched uncle Dan race in the Southern 80 on the Murray River.

    The Southern 80 is a 80 km long ski race. Uncle Dan towed two 10-year-old girls in the Southern 80, it took them about an hour and a half to finish the race.

    Some of the other boats were averaging 160 km/h, and they finish the race in around 30 to 35 minutes. Some of the boats even had twin turbo V8 Motors on them. The record for the southern 80 is 29 minutes.

    My favourite part of the Southern 80 was watching uncle Dan and having campfires on the Murray River.    Read more

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    Sovereign Hill

    March 28, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Sovereign Hill is a replica of Ballarat in the gold rush days. We went to Ballarat to experience the goldrush and learn about the old days.

    When we arrived I noticed that the houses were very small, dirty and unpleasant. The river that they got the water from was also used for bathing and emptying their toilets. Lots of kids got sick and died because they didn’t have the right medicine.

    In the goldrush the police offices were armed with musket rifles, the only downside was that it took 40 seconds to reload it, and they didn’t have very good aim. We even watched a demonstration. The musket rifle was a very loud and I think it’s scared some people.

    We found a blacksmith making a tripod that goes over the fire and you can hang your billy pot off it. It was very hot, because the blacksmith had a fire going, so he could soften the steel and bend it.

    At sovereign Hill, they had a Gold mine, so we got to try and pan for some gold. We only found a couple of tiny flakes, but we put them in a bottle and kept them anyway.

    We watch some people make hard-boiled lollies, they used water, sugar and glucose. Back in the 1850s sugar was very expensive so that made lollies very expensive. I was shocked because in the 1850s kids only got one lolly every one to two weeks if they were good and had done all their chores. The hard boiled lollies were so good that we had to buy some from the lolly store.

    I would never want to live in the gold rush days, because it seemed very unpleasant and not much fun.    Read more

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    F1’S

    March 31, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    What an early start, we caught a 6:30am train from Little River and a tram from the train station to Melbourne, on Friday and Sunday to watch the F1’s. We were there all day and watched the practice on Friday and the race on Sunday.

    On Friday we did a lot of walking around the F1 track, watching the F1s. While we watching the F1s we had to wear earplugs because they were so loud. While we were at the F1s we even saw F2s, F3s and V8s, the F2 and F3 were a lot louder than the F1s.

    Sunday was race day, we got there as the gates opened so we could get front row seats, the only time we left our seat was when Lachie and I went to get a ginormous ice cream. Where we were sitting we even saw some cars crash, but luckily no-one got hurt. After we watched the race I went to my first concert we saw Sneaky Sound System and Birds of Tokyo, I knew some of the songs because dad has played them all the before.

    After a couple of big days we slept like babies and had a heap of fun.    Read more

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    Surfing at Cactus
    Sunset Bar stall

    Cactus 🏄‍♂️ 🌵🤙

    April 17, 2023 in Australia

    It was our third time staying at Cactus and we were there for three weeks. We are staying at Cactus again because it is our favourite place, and we met up with Willow and Matilda from last year, we also made lots of new friends and played lots of games.

     This year was my favourite year at Cactus because we made so many friends, our friends names were Matilda, Willow, Lilly, Grace, Imogeon, Albie, Lenny, Seb and Meki. Each morning, we would wake up do our schoolwork and then go down and play with our friends all day and only come back up to eat. We would hang out at the A-frame all day and play lots of games like truth or dare, capture the flag and cops and robbers. When the surf was good we would organise our parents to drive us to Shelleys because we love surfing together and catching party waves. When the surf was smaller we would go out to Cactus and one time it was a bit too big and we all got wiped out. When it was dark we would play different games like storm Lantern, camouflage and among us. One day, all of the kids made a heap of jewellery and we sold it at the sunset bar. We made five dollars each, all up we made $50, I spent my money on lollies. But then all of our friends left and now we have to hang out with mum and dad 🙄.    Read more

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    Coober Pedy

    May 5, 2023 in Australia

    On our way up to Darwin we stopped in at Coober Pedy and it was a bit different to last time. Last time, we were at Coober Pedy it was raining and super windy, but this time there was not a cloud in the sky it was really hot.

    When we got to Coober Pedy we parked the caravan and went for a walk. We saw lots of different things but my favourite was the underground mine tour. It was a self-guided tour and my favourite thing was following the map around. When we finished the mine tour mum and dad looked for Opal for ages in the noodling pit 😞😞, and it was boring, when we got back to the caravan we got a waffle flavour maxibon.    Read more

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    Alice Springs

    May 7, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    While we were at Alice Springs we went out to Standley Chasm and Simpsons Gap. They are part of the MacDonnell Ranges.

    The best time to go to Standley Chasm is midday, because the sun shines directly into the chasm and lights the walls up bright red.

    I liked Simpsons Gap because there was likes of fun rocks to climb up and it was only a short walk, but unfortunately you can’t be at two places at once so the walls weren’t glowing red here.    Read more

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    Not more Fossicking

    May 9, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 13 °C

    Mum and dad dragged us out to the Zircon fields in the heat, because Mum loves fossicking.

    Lachie and I would go out fossicking for two hours in the morning, and then stay at home for the afternoon session. We found heaps of Zircon compared to last year, but they were all around the same size.

    One Night, I cooked works burgers for dinner and they were delicious. Even Lachie thought they were the better than the ones we bought at the shops.

    While we were having a rest from fossicking, dad found a caterpillar train, and it was ginormous. All the caterpillars walked under our van and huddled up into a ball, so they could stay warm.

    I wasn’t a big fan of the fossicking, but I loved chilling by the fire in the absolute middle of nowhere.    Read more

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