Australian Pictures

[Brocky]

With your interest in Australia after Mrs Mack Paul's Australia day post I created a Flicker account to share with you my pictures taken in August of 2015 when I went down on the ATHS Down Under Tour. Our travel agent and tour director was Stephanie Vanatta, ATHS past president John Vanatta's daughter, as a result we had many experiences at regular tourist sites as well as their National Truck Show and several private collections. This first batch is of some of our tourist scenes. We flew into Sydney and spent the first day there wwhen I took some pictures from the roof of our hotel. We then flew to Ayers Rock which is a large 5 mile by 15 mile sized rock standing out of the desert floor with an Aboriginal sacred ground background. Later in the week we took a bus tour down the eastern mountains and coast visiting a zoo and a mini sugar mill. I was surprised at the amount of sugar cane farming in this area and our wonderful bus driver knew of this mill in the McKay area that had a mini mill in front open to the public. Then our final bus tour was west from Melbourne on the south coast. I will post about three more albums of trucks: the Alice Springs national show, the Tony Champion Mack collection, and the 4 private collections we visited in the Melbourne area.

 

 

[other dog]

Nice, thank you. I remember when you went there, those are some great pictures. That Ayers rock is something else!