School holidays

Here are some photos of what Hannah got up to over the school holidays.

Hannah in Brisbane

For the last week and a bit Hannah has been in Queensland with Mum, Dad and Caiden to talk to people about human brains. Hannah's Mum and Dad spent about 1hr each inside one of these most amazing machines.

Which produces images of ones brain pathways like the one on the right.

Everyone wanted Hannah to have a turn ... everyone that is except for Hannah. But Hannah did help the technicians operate the machine.

Here are a few of the photos of Hannah's trip. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Oh, and here is a video of Hannah cycling along Brisbane River.

Mammoth Cave, Janolan.

Over the weekend Hannah and her family headed to Janolan Caves and descended to the very bottom of the largest cave in NSW - Mammoth Cave. 

Mammoth Cave is not a part of the tourist caves and is quite illegal to go into! Illegal except if, as Hannah is, you're a member of a Speleological (Caving) Club. At the bottom of the cave flows the clearest river as has ever been, but it's very hard to get too with lots of tight squeezes and mazes of passage ways. Once Hannah went the wrong way with Gerrard (an adult) through a tiny little hole, then needed to come back again! I think she felt like Winnie the Pooh. Hannah needed some pulling!

At the underground river Hannah and the others had lunch, because it took all day to get in and then out again. Caiden was also there and another girl called Kate in red overalls.

Later Hannah also had special private access to Lucas Cave (a tourist cave) with the club, where we danced to Opera music! Some of these photos were taken by Hannah. 

Ask Hannah about the Possum that came into our hut and wouldn't go out again. The Possum bit Hannah's Dad's toe! They have sharp teeth!

Also ask Hannah about the storm when we were driving home in the car!

All of the weekends photos are here.

Kate and Caiden

Hannah only just fitted through some parts of the cave! Poor Dad!

At the bottom

You can continue - if you have scuba gear!

The Broken Column

A very real fossil embedded in the rock of (I think) a wallaby.

One of the fossils descendants.

Hannah's weekend

Hannah's cousins came to visit over the weekend and no photos or video was taken.

Hannah's cousins are Ellie, Kaarina and Esther and Aunty Heather and Uncle Jari.

Hannah's long coastal walk

This last weekend Hannah and her Dad - together with 2 other kids Issac & Fynn and Jason, Morton, Pete and Adam walked the 27km long Coastal Track of the Royal NP from Otford to Bundeena over two days. Hannah had a hoot! So did everyone else.

Besides doing lots of walking, Hannah did lots of swimming at beaches along the way and at crystal clear pure fresh water - water holes.

Here are some photos and video of this: