Day 7
Saturday 01 September 2012
Day 7 Birdsville
Another leisurely morning which turned into
a warm day of 28°C.
After breakfast, a bit of bike maintenance,
a look around the camp again, and preperations for tomorrows departure,
it was time to get the vehicles ready for the afternoons adventure.
We drove south out of town onto the Birdsville
Track to the Red Hills, about 45 km south of Birdsville.
This was an exciting time and a bit of an
adrenaline rush for the drivers, or the owners if they lent their
vehicles to a wantabe sand hill climb king.
A couple of us made it to the top, but some
just could not do it.
Now not all of us ended at Red Hill.
Cookie 1 said he came to Birdsville to go to the races and that's
what he did, the only one to attend both days races.
The Roulettes put on a spectacular air show
display as
this was the "big day".
And no, Cookie 1 is not in the crowd of this
picture watching the Roulettes do their thing again, as he was
attending
"cup day" at the races.
We all arrived back late in the afternoon and
went to town to have a meal and some of us went to Fred Brophy's
Boxing Troupe tent again. Others just enjoyed the atmosphere throughout
the evening in the town, checking out all the sites.
And as our camp site was almost directly in
line with the airport runway, we had a great view of all the aircraft
taking off, mostly the undersides thereof.
The helicopter did a roaring trade, several hours of ferrying people
to and from the races, at $70 per trip, and a round trip of seven minutes
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