Sunday, May 22, 2011

Woomera

Arrived at Woomera, after fighting gale forced winds, which caused us to use almost twice as much fuel.
Checked into the caravan park, which was situated 10 minutes walk from town.
We walked into what appeared to be a deserted town. In the town was a number of museums representing Australian, Japanese and English misile launching bases and also the Australian misile defence ranges.

There was very little if nothing mentioned about the 1950's atomic bomb blasts. We saw old rockets, misiles and planes in the museum, 60 % of the houses are unoccopied.
Each afternoon at 4PM the Caravan Park opened up a Bar where all guests were welcome, the Bar was called Cudgee, almost all guests came along.

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