Temp: 22-39; 66- 24% humidity Distance: 424km; total: 1 612km Start time: 8:50am, arrival: 5pm We had a leisurely breakfast and pack-up this morning ready for a departure of between 8:30 and 9am. We headed for Parkes to visit the Parkes Observatory, aka "The Dish"; a radio telescope observatory. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969. We arrived about 10am but instead of heading st...

18-35 degC; 77-33% humidity Biked: 31km; total: 59.5km After breakfast we left for the zoo on the bikes. It should have only taken us 15 minutes but due to a directional error, it took us 25, but we did get there! We had purchased our tickets on line to save 10% so didn't have to queue and just presented the phone at the gate and they scanned the barcode and in we went. We spent about 5 hours at the zoo and saw all the usual suspects (elephant, rhino, lion, monke...