We've been taking Abi to her horse riding lesson most Wednesday afternoons, after school. This has been a cold, wet, muddy winter here in Canberra so most of her lessons have had be in the indoor arena at Forest Park. It's still freezing cold in the arena because it's open on all sides, but at least its dry. Two weeks ago we had a fine sunny Wednesday afternoon for a change so Abi's instructor took the class on a trail ride - great excitement! I took these pics of Abi and Wally the Shetland cross getting ready for the ride. Its fair to say that Abi enjoys the saddling up process (and the unsaddling process) just as much as the riding!
We stayed close to home and found our way to the historic old Duntroon Dairy just off Kelliher Drive in nearby Russell. The building dates from 1832 (although rebuilt a number of times) and is believed to be Canberra's oldest building. This dairy was one of a number of buildings that became home to several generations of families that worked on the original Campbell Estate. There were still signs of these other buildings in the grounds around the dairy. It was hard to believe that in all the years we've lived in Canberra we've never visited this site before.
I took this pic from the site of the old family "tennis court". It shows how close the farm buildings were to the Molonglo River.
From the old diary we followed a track up to the lookout of Mt Pleasant, to the rear of the property. It was a gentle climb compared to the killer Mt Ainslie, but still gave us beautiful views over Canberra.
The cannon guns at the lookout are part of the Royal Australian Artillery National Memorial.
With more beautiful views of the Molonglo River to the East.
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