Dad and I went to see the Anzac Walk, a new elevated platform opened this past year to commemorate 100 years since WW1.
As you can see the weather was lovely, and the views of the city and ocean from the high walkway were wonderful. Highly recommended if you’re in Newcastle.
We continued down to Newcastle beach, which was still closed due to heavy seas. This didn’t dissuade the sun bathers though.
Here’s a shot of the same beach from 1912:
That shot is from one of the exhibits in Newcastle Museum, which we visited after lunch. Although this had been opened for several years, I’d never been before and was surprised how good it is.
In addition to detailed exhibits on Newcastle history, the museum also contained a superb section of hands-on physics experiments demonstrating a wide range of phenomena including magnetism, optics, mechanics and more specialized things such as turbulence or eddy currents! Here’s dad exploiting a long lever arm to lift a car:
By mid afternoon it had gotten quite hot, and despite the liberal application of sunblock I’m sure I’ve burned myself a little.
Dad went home and I continued on to explore a wealth of antique and bric-a-brac shops around Hamilton. One thing led to another and a couple of hours had passed. I purchased nothing, but may have got this chess computer had shipping it home not been a pain:
I’m ruined by the sun now, and very tired. I can barely stay awake watching this ‘Hitler movie’ dad’s just put in the DVD player 🙂