Week 16 from Hayden

Week 16 from Hayden (11 yo boy)

01/10/16

Today we packed up and drove to 80 mile beach (nicknamed 80 million fly beach).  Then we drove to De Grey rest stop!

02/10/16

Today we packed up and drove to Karijini National Park and Dad saw one of the wheels was a bit flat.  On getting out, he noticed it had popped open and we could hear the air going out of it!

03/10/16

Today we went and did the west side walks.  On the last one I slipped and fell, hitting my knee hard.  Mum says it will go pretty colours and it already is swelling.  Now I look back I realise I hit my head hard as well but the knee took priority.

 04/10/16

Birthday Yah!
Today we woke up early and went to Newman and did the tour of the open cut iron ore mine.  It was the largest in the world.  We got to see the train loading and the trucks working and a group getting ready to blast.  We got to collect samples of the four different iron ores, Brockman hematite 68.8% iron, Newman Blended Lump 62.75% iron, Newman High Grade Fines 61.65% iron and Geothite Limonite 61% iron.  Then we went and I had lemonade and two scones with jam.  Then we drove back and went to Fern Pool and played in the ice (water).  Then at 7:00pm Dad and I went to the astronomy talk.   There were only us and one other person and the tour guide.  We saw the jewel box, which looks like a three-sided box with a red, yellow and blue star in a row (I called it the traffic lights).  Then we zoomed in on the moon and could see the individual craters everywhere.  Then we magnified Saturn so we could see the individual rings and they’re shadows.  After that we had a look at the constellations like Scorpio, a sea goat and a tea pot.  Then we went and looked at Mars, it was a red dot, and Alpha Centauri (there are two stars there) and the globular cluster and lastly the Milky Way – we separated the stars!

05/10/16

Today was a school work day.  Then we had a swim.

06/10/16

Today we got up and hiked up Mount Bruce.  The view was amazing!  We got to see the mine blow stuff up!! Yay!  Then we went and walked up Joffre Gorge.

07/10/16

Today we got up early and packed down and drove to Hamersley Gorge.  We got a flat tyre in the car park.  Then we drove to Millstream-Chichester National Park!