Anyway my plan to head out to the Compact Array Telescopes is put into action. I first make a call to request to stay for a few hours after closing time of 5pm but no one answered the phone.
I arrived there just before closing time, made a cuppa and waited, the place was empty except for a late visitor and the occasional movement of people way over at the buildings. A short time later a lovely lady walked over to me from those buildings, she may have been one of the scientists, I don't know but I explained I was hoping to stay for about 2 hours before the moon rose before 8pm, to take light photos with a torch on the Array's and she agreed that it would be ok 'if I was responsible for my actions' and to drive slowly out in the dark as there are hundreds of Roo's about.
Who was a happy girl then!!!! though I did find it really hard to focus the camera in the dark.
Ruby and I enjoyed our experience, the sound of the warring of the Arrays as they moved position and the slight breeze rustling the trees then the moon starting to rise in the east while Kangaroo mobs bounded across the road on my way out doing 20kph.
Time passed to quickly.
Quirindi was a really lovely drive that I'd not done before and would defiantly do again.
Muswellbrook was my last stop over before arriving home on 4th August
