Day 9 - 10/6/2016 - Standley Chasm and Finke Desert Rally Scrutineering
Because scrutineering wasn’t until the afternoon/evening we thought we would do some sight seeing. First stop was Standley Chasm.
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| Standley Chasm kiosk and cafe |
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| Picnic/Camp ground area |
Before we started the small walk we had smoko at the cafe.
They had done a fair bit of work to the track since we were here in 2012. There was actually a proper formed walking track now instead of just a goat track through the dry creek bed.
Being a bit of a bleak day the chasm wasn’t really busy and we had the place to ourselves for a little while, which was nice.
On the way back into town we headed up to ANZAC Hill lookout for a view of the city.
From there we headed to the cafe at the botanic gardens for a late lunch and only just made it before they were closing up for the afternoon. After eating we split up, we headed back to camp to get a few things organised before we headed off to scrutineering that evening. The others had a wander around the gardens before heading off early to the scrutineering.
Gates opened for scrutineering at 5pm but we didn’t arrive until about 7pm. Jodie and I were more interested in trying to catch a glimpse of Toby Price, Australia’s 1st Dakar Rally winner. He came 3rd in the Dakar Rally last year as a rookie and then this year won it. He has also won the Finke Rally 4 times before as well. The queue to get an autograph was massive and moving slowly so we gave that a miss and were just content to get some photos of him and the winning Dakar bike.
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| Toby Price with Dakar Trophy |
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| The winning Dakar bike |
While wandering around the buggies and bikes we were listening to the Ian Moss concert.
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| Not your standard Triton |
Ian Moss had ridden his Indian to Alice Springs as part of the Black Dog Ride charity event and was performing a live acoustic concert. He also performed some of the old classic Chisel songs. He was a great live performer.
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