day 3 of my third visit to peak hill

after seeing mia & daniel away & feeding the animals o got down to business. Well first I did my chores; washing smalls & cleaning the nqa chopper. 
the day was overcast with a prediction of rain, so I rugged up & headed out. My aims were to visit Forbes, get some hardware & visit one of the best antique stores around. 
On the way there I visited The Dish radio telescope, made famous in the year 2000 movie of the same name, & earlier for it's critical role in  communicating with Apollo 11 during its inaugural moon landing in1969.  
I'd seen the dish from the Newell Highway during my previous visit & was impressed by its apparent size. But today, as I drove off the main road & accelerated up to over 80 clicks & held it for some time I realized this dish is a colossal structure. 
In the movie the lead actors staged a game of cricket on the dish. The parabolic surface is way too delicate for such a stunt, but the cricket game was employed to demonstrate the scale of structure.  
Unfortunately the presence of gray nomads made my skin crawl & blood boil, so I snapped a photo & cleared off. But in rear view, it was the day's high point. 
a scene from the movie

The search for rusty iron fory nqa chopper proved fruitless, but it was fun picking up odd shaped pieces of rusty steel & trying to visualise their role in modifying the Shadow. 
So, after only 150k of mostly highway riding, I racked up the chopper, under shelter from tonight's rain.  

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