It was still raining after the Transport Museum extravaganza, so the plan to ride out to the Old Telegraph Station was abandoned. Instead we opted for the bakery lunch (indoors) and a drive to the Telegraph Station. It’s only 5km from the centre of town, and also the site of a start and a finish for the mountain bike race we hold here each year. In all those 6 visits, we’ve never taken the time to browse through the serene buildings (the very first white settlement in the Central Australia). So today was the day!
They could communicate with London in about 8 hours!
Here are a few photos of this beautiful place.



And here’s a photo of the boys at the weather station. And guess what the manual recording was? RAIN.