'The' Road Trip - Day 3


After a leisurely get up in the morning, we took a trip up the Newell highway to visit the C.S.I.R.O. Radio Telescope - more commonly referred to as 'The Dish'. A short day's drive away is Bathurst, the first settlement in inland Australia and the spiritual home for petrol heads - Mount Panorama. We had a look through the Australian Motorsport Museum at the entrance to the circuit before Kieran and our regular drivers did a couple of laps of the circuit (one each way). We will be stayed overnight in Bathurst. 

A section of the control panel as used in the movie.

Bouf takes another breather in the grounds of the radio telescope.

Ambre and Matthew sit back and take it all in. Now if the dish was on its back, you could play cricket on it's surface couldn't you?

Another group shot. Doesn't the weather look horrible?

Not quite sure, but I think Lesley is trying to explain to Dean that we are going for an ice-cream now.

Ambre and Matthew have a sit in one of the cars at the Australian Motor Sport Museum at the entrance to Mt Panorama.

What more can I say but "Bloody Volvo Drivers!!!"

This one is more Matthew's size and speed.

This is our site at East's Bathurst Caravan Park. The facilities were pretty good (if you had a caravan). But for tent campers, things were a bit rough. The ground was rock hard, bending all our pegs. The lights in the camper's wash-up area didn't work (not that it mattered much as the wash-up facilities were on the other end of the park to our site anyway). On the upside, the toilets had the radio piped in and the park has a swimming pool with a slide.
and the card scores were

Night Three

Lesley and Steve

80

80

30

110

10

120

30

150

80

230

40

270

10

280

40

320

80

400

120

520

Winners

Mark and Dean

40

40

60

100

60

160

120

280

20

300

40

340

90

430

60

490

10

500

10

510

 

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