20th & 21st February 2012
What is this place?
36,000 people, it is huge! There is everything here, a race track, a university
and plenty of very old stuff. We always pictured Bathurst as this little
country town with the race track being about 10 klms to the west of town, well
the town is huge far bigger than Springwood, the race track is to the south of
the town and only about 2 to 3 klms from the city centre.
We
arrived in Bathurst mid-afternoon after a nice leisurely trip through the Blue
Mountains from Sydney and Jervis Bay. We heard on the radio that there was a
24-hour race this weekend, we can't believe it we seem to be attracting large
sporting events where ever we go. The disappointment we may have had was the
track being closed the next day. On that basis Trice and I decided to drive to
the track and do a couple of laps just in case. The biggest thing we noticed
was how narrow and steep the track was. The speed limit is 60 kph and this was
as fast as we felt comfortable.
The next
day we went to the fossil and mineral museum and visited the motor museum at
the track, and did another lap. It looks like some lunatic had lost it going up
the mountain the night before and has gone into the barriers. We just spent the
rest of the day site seeing this great town.
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