Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia - 6th August 2008
By: sararingham
Today was a very busy day... we got woken up very early and got in the car - we were on our way to Bathurst. We had four mystery shops to do, again, not really picture worthy so no photos were taken of that... but for us waiting in the car to not get lost we got a bit of a treat. We got to visit the famous Mount Panorama... a very famous race track that is used throughout the year, but you can drive on it and many people do drive on it to get to their homes (as a shortcut). During October it's EXTREMELY busy as the races are in the beginning of October. They're already preparing for the races, and it's only August...
...here I am standing at the famous sign that's on the side of the 'mountain'...
...and here's a close up of the famous sign...
...here is some information about the track, a sign showing what the track looks like - and then a bit of information about the race track...
...and now it's time to get on the track, we drove around it counter-clockwise which is the same direction as the v8 cars that drive around it... now here's a whole bunch of photos as we are going around the track. :-)
...and as were coming back around here's the starting gate...
...and here's what you see as you're leaving the race track. :-) As you can probably tell there is a lot of people that drive around the track, it seems like a big reason to come to the Central West... anytime but race time... race time it's extremely busy, even in Orange - which is around 55kms drive from Bathurst... and even farther than that...
...now it's time to get all the stuff done... here's William Street the main street of Bathurst as were about to go down it, as you can see it looks like a small town but it's actually got around 40,000 or so people in it - so definitely not a city but a nice little "country town".
...after we were done doing all the mystery shops we pulled over quite suddenly, I wonder why? Well... of course Sara decided to pull over and show us a famous Australian sight... kangaroos...
...as you can see them in the background we had to keep our distance but Sara got a lot closer and got some better shots of them for us... :-)
Well I hope you enjoyed our trip to Bathurst! It was quite exciting - we're going back next Friday - and were going to visit the fossil museum, Sara's been itching to visit it for quite some time... I'll write again soon... :-)
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 9:28 am Last edited Aug 7, 2008, 9:33 am by sararingham
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