Thurs, 28th to Sun, 1st May - Wanneroo

Another birthday on Thursday ... happy birthday Barb!! We moved on today to Wanneroo which is just north of Perth to a caravan park that we managed to book into earlier.  It is one of the most run down parks we have been to on the whole trip, and the most expensive at $40 per night!  The V8s are on at Barbagallo this weekend and we are only about a 20 minute drive from there, so the parks can charge as much as they like.  Once settled, we drove around and did some sight-seeing, and had a look at Hillary's Boat Harbour. We also drove out to the Barbagallo Race Track to see how difficult it will be to get there on a busy race day and plan the route.


On Friday Rick left fairly early to go out to the V8s, while I washed and had a look at the local shopping centre which was walking distance away.  The first time I've been in shops on my own for ages!  Rick caught up with Warren Luff briefly and a couple of other people he knows while at the track.

On Saturday we both went out to the race track. The traffic going out there flowed freely and we could park quite close to the track which was great.  It was really hot sitting in the grandstand until the sun went behind us and then it got really cold.  The racing was good but it was a long day, so we had an early night to bed.

Neil and Lynne arrived at around 7:30 on Sunday morning and the guys packed some food and drinks and headed to the track.  Lynne and I drove out to the Wanneroo Markets and walked around for a couple of hours.  There were some really interesting things for sale at the markets ... dried pigs and lambs tongues for instance ... pet food (we hoped) ... yuck!  We then watched a DVD until the guys came home from the races.  Their seats were located right on the start/finish line so they had a bird's eye view of the fiery crash on the starting lap.

The view from our seats at Barbagallo