Guilderton & The Gravity Discovery Centre

We arrived at the tiny town of Guilderton late Sunday, stopping at the caravan park on the banks of the Moore River. This is quite a nice holiday place, though the caravan park was pretty busy. No surprise really I guess, given that it isn’t far out of Perth, and it is school holidays! Monday morning we had a general look around and went on a nice walk up and down the beach, and to the nearby lookout. Mostly overcast, but thankfully no rain. Here are some pics.

Edge of the Moore River, looking out to sea.

Edge of the Moore River, looking out to sea.

caravan park

caravan park

Leaving the town of Guilderton we headed further south towards Perth. Signs to the Gravity Discovery Centre caught our attention, though we had planned to go to Yanchep NP. We didn’t know anything about it, but the boys like science and it sounded interesting, so we headed in for the arvo. Turned out to be a great place which we really enjoyed. Not long after turning up, there was a rocket building exercise going one, so the boys participated in that. The bloke running it was an older bloke who I gathered (from talking to him) doesn’t actually need to work, but does so as he loves science and encouraging kids in this field. So as you can imagine he was very enthusiastic, which helps make places like these fun and enjoyable.

Jonathans rocket

Daniels rocket

Daniels rocket launch:

Jonathans rocket launch:

He also did a gunpowder rocket launch for us!

preparing the gunpowder rocket

preparing the gunpowder rocket

After all that he seemed to think it was important we dress up in these astronaut suits, and we didn’t feel like we could say no after such enthusiasm!!

There are heaps of other cool things there. The boys were keen on the Leaning Tower of Gingin, where you climb up the tall tower and drop water balloons. The idea is to understand Galileo’s experiment, where he worked out if heavier things fall faster than lighter things. Ignoring air friction. Do they???? We took several water balloons up, some with up to about 3 times the amount of water as others, and dropped simultaneously. Did they hit the ground at the same time, or a long time apart? For what its worth, my boys still won’t believe the theory/results…. they insist it was something other than what it was… and these are fairly science orientated kids!!!

The Tower of Gingin!

The Leaning Tower of Gingin!

looks like Daniel actually let go of the rails for this pic! I think the other two are still holding on!!!

this one is for Johnny L.!

this one is for Johnny L.!

There were heaps of other attractions and things to look at and learn. Some basic and good for the kids, others too advanced (for me too!). I took some video of just a few of the basic ones. I thought I took a lot more video, but seems like I stuffed up and had the camera recording when I didn’t want to, and not recording when I did!

Nicole really like her Pluto weight… though I think it was waaaaay too light myself!

Nicoles Pluto weight

Nicoles Pluto weight

We ran out of time to see everything before closing, but having seen much of it we decided to continue on to Yanchep National Park the next day. The Gravity Discovery Centre was well worth the visit.

2 thoughts on “Guilderton & The Gravity Discovery Centre

  1. Simon thanks for thinking of me and reminding me of my great fear of heights lol. How high up did you go?
    I, like you Nicole would not be letting go of the railings. Take care and God bless.

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