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.
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Bouf takes another breather in the grounds of the radio
telescope.
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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?
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Another group shot. Doesn't the weather look
horrible?
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Not quite sure, but I think Lesley is trying to explain
to Dean that we are going for an ice-cream now.
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Ambre and Matthew have a sit in one of the cars at the
Australian Motor Sport Museum at the entrance to Mt
Panorama.
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What more can I say but "Bloody Volvo
Drivers!!!"
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This one is more Matthew's size and speed.
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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.
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and the card scores were