Mackenzie: Today we drove to Woomera. Fletcher and I did school work and watched a movie. When we got to the place we were staying we got to play for a while before dinner. We had chicken wraps for dinner and we all watched a movie.
Today was a boring drive day with nothing exciting to happen. Well apart from something leaking in the engine and a strange noise coming from the front, the poor car has done so well but I think it is due for a very big look over by a mechanic and soon. We got to Woomera and set up. It is a great town and really neat and tidy. You have to work a minimum of 30 hours a week here and if you slip below that you have 28 days to do something about it, there is no graffiti, no crime, it is amazing. Some workers did graffiti something in town and they were found, made to pay for it and have it cleaned and banned from Woomera......love it. It is a small community and relatively a new town for visitors as it had been a closed area, a "No Go" town for so long because of the rocket testing. There are no secrets here now, apparently?! It is still managed by the defence force. There is plans at the park here to spend $20million to add another village for Roxby Downs who are extending their mine and increasing their workforce, so the deal has been done that it still stays a caravan park but have living quarters for workers. We made a quick trip to the closed detention centre, we didn't go right up to it as I felt pretty strange about photographing it or even being there, it was only used for 4 years but it made headlines so many times.
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