Alice Springs cont'd

Alice Springs 28, 29 August  2015

Having some catch up time in AS - washing, shopping, refuelling truck, truck maintenance etc.

Jim and Gary have gone to the Transport Hall of Fame in the Landrover today to check out what is there. They are lucky it is a beautiful day and not too hot.  I am sure there will be lots of blokey things to look at. Each day there are more and more people arriving in town to watch or participate in the big parade tomorrow morning. It takes a few hours for all the vehicles to  go through the town. The roads will be closed to allow packets of old vehicles through then reopened at various intervals to allow access to the general public. We're not participating in the parade - we shall watch from the sidelines.      

Camped behind us in the grounds are dog enthusiasts who are showing their dogs tonight. There are dogs of all shapes and sizes. A lot of them are transported in pretty flash trailers. It looks like a kid's playground with little individual  play pens for each dog. The dogs seem to have settled in fine but the owners are a bit uptight and there have been a few domestics. Must be high stakes if you win!! People have travelled far and wide to enter their dogs in the competition. One couple we were talking to had driven all the way from the Barossa Valley with their 5 dogs. It looks as though there may be a horsey event on as well as there are several horses strutting around on the oval. A couple of our guys were asked to move their Landrovers as they may spook the horses.  It hurt their pride a little.

Tonight the convoy members have been invited to Dougie's for a BBQ dinner. He lives about 7kms out town.   Doug lives and works in AS and was part of the convoy that left Adelaide. He left the convoy a bit earlier to come home. Probably to break the news to his wife that he had invited the whole convoy for dinner!  He also surprised many people in the various towns we stopped at by riding his penny farthing bicycle through the streets.