Mount Isa

 
 
 

Answer to the joke of the day is:
A mouse on vacation ( sorry it took so long - esp for Uncle Craig) we have been off line for a while.

Today we went to the Underground Hospital. It was build in case the Japanese bombed Mount Isa because of the mines. Inside the hospital we saw bed pans for people to go to the toilet in, beds for new born babies, beds with a straw mattress, old glass bottles, a bed for people who had injured their backs (it could rotate). We even saw some children’s play toys which were tiny soldiers made from wood which the children would bowl over with a marble.

The passage way was narrow to walk through and was forked into two passages – one lot of beds for men and the other beds for women.

Outside the hospital, we saw lots of different types of plants that the Aboriginal people use for medicine and eating.

After that we went to a park which had a man-made lake in the middle of it. We saw lots of different animals – eagles, kookaburras and peacocks. We had some lunch there and also played with the vortex and the football. We really enjoyed watching the eagles swoop and soar in the air around their nest.