Off to Canberra again today for a post christmas family catch up. 0730 departure as had to stay and watch the Doctor Who christmas special on iView this morning before I could go, Some things are just too important to miss 😁
Was just the usual trip with not very much traffic about, which is always a plus. Went through Holbrook on the way up to refuel and to see what changes the bypass has made to the town, from what I could see not much has changed at all. The submarine casing of the old HMAS Otway is still there attracting visitors, which I suppose is what it was placed there to do, so that must be a good thing. HMAS Otway is one of the old Oberon class submarines of the Royal Australian Navy, it was built in Scotland in 1965 and was commissioned into service in 1968. Otway was decommissioned in 1994 and sold off for scrap with only the fin having been donated to the town of Holbrook. The town managed to buy the upper casing (everything you would see above the waterline when it was surfaced) from the scrap metal merchants that won the tender for the metal scrap of the whole casing, and installed it in the main town park.
Other thanks that it was dry and to be honest if you hadn't know it had rained so much relatively recently you would have not realised it had, everywhere was so dry and brown, it's amazing how much difference a few months can make to the landscape...
The Continuing story of travelling around different areas of Australia in a 1955 Morris Minor. There is some history, planning and photos from previous travels in the Morris, though mostly from the around Australia drive in 2014, and more recent trips.
Monday, 2 January 2017
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