Hi all
On the weekend, my family and I took a short holiday to Parkes and Dubbo.
We left on Saturday morning (6am) and arrived at Parkes just before lunch. We headed to the Dish, and it was my first time there. Wow, what an amazing experience. It's huge! You can see it rising out from the fields from about 10+ km's out. What a sight.
On Saturday afternoon I headed to the David Malin Awards presentations (
writeup here). It was great to meet David again and also IIS members such as Gary Hill, Eddie T and others. Steve Massey and Steve Quirk were there but only got to say g'day in passing. Also had a good chat with Ray Palmer (owner of MyAstroSpace) who came all the way from W.A!
Unfortunately I didn't get to hang around for the conference or talks as the kids would've been too bored and restless
Sunday morning we went back to the Dish, and man there was a thick fog that morning and very cold. The Dish was cloaked in fog and made a very eery view.
We left Parkes and headed to Dubbo, about an hour North. The main purpose of going to Dubbo was to visit the Western Plains Zoo, so we went straight there.
We hired some bikes to ride around the 6km of roads leading around the exhibits. It was great fun. We went back there on Monday morning as well and hired the electric cart (golf buggy). Man it was cold. Dubbo was -3 that morning, frost and ice on everything.
The kids really enjoyed the zoo and the dish.
I've got heaps of photos as you'd expect, I'll try and get through some over the next few days. Here's one from Sunday morning in the fog.
. You drive to one parking spot, walk half way back to the last, walk halway up to the next and walk back to the car... you're better off just walking!
So bikes or a cart are the go.
