Today is Australia Day, and to anyone who doesn’t know why we are cebrating it, I’ll remind you. We are celebrating Australia Day because 219 years ago to the day, the First Fleet landed in Sydney. Every Australia Day, many people become Australian Citezens in a special ceremony. Anyway, enough history and on to a recount of the celebrations at Yeppoon.
First up we went to the area in front of the KBSC, where we had read in the Mirror (the local paper), that they were offering free sailing boat rides. My sisters and I all had a ride, and they mostly enjoyed it. I decided that going out in the motorised rubber boat was more fun than sailing, which was a bit too slow for my liking.
After the boat rides, which took at least an hour and a ½, we went up to the entertainment area, where we watched the Big Top Circus. Well actually, there wasn’t any big top and the sole contents of the circus were 2 – 3 clowns and a hula-hooper. I didn’t think that they were that good.
After that we hang around the stalls for a while, bumped into some people that we knew, and then left. The total time that we spent at the celebrations was about 3 hours, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Below are some photos that I took while I was there.
