10-01-2010, 05:55pm
Steventh and BMW Bruce came to Canberra for a quick run around our backroads, and to see some Very Big Things. It is Summernats here in Canberra, so while it was worth doing 5kms/hr UNDER the speed limit around town, there was no such concerns on the back roads.
I promised them the biggest thing they had ever seen and came up with this. The scale doesn't do it justice. It is the tracking station at Tidbinbilla. You turn off the main road and tear down a long, gently undulating, beautifully surfaced, fairly straight bit of road (with a tricky gravel covered bend right when you are staring to the left at the dish). When you get to the bottom, you are faced with the biggest damn dish you've seen.
And then I started scraping the barrel. Do you THINK I could talk them into riding to Goulbourne to see the sheep?