Saturday - More expo funAnother beautiful morning. Again I leave Sally in the camper so I can take some pictures and meet those other early-birds milling around with cups of coffee.
Some were missing their coffee:
The offroad demonstration area was wonderfully quiet at this time:
Some had turned up early though to get the best seat:
Another chance to admire interesting vehicles. I liked this, having previously owned the WWII predecessor, though without the nice camper:
I REALLY wanted one of these in the '80s, but back then I couldn't afford the insurance the fuel or the 2nd hand price of one (I settled on a 1.3 litre Escort instead - not quite the same thing really). This one is a lovely example, but in our climate they rotted pretty quickly:
We attended a hands-on demonstration of tyre repair - it was useful seeing how even the highly experienced Camel Trophy team members can struggle with big side-wall punctures.
We also attended an afternoon lecture on water filtering, purification, etc. After a break, to watch the Welsh and Scottish Camel Trophy guys building a log bridge, we attended an overland route planning lecture with Chris Scott. Chris is an excellent source of information, especially about north African travel and crammed a lot of info into 50 minutes. We had a chat with Chris afterwards to let him know how useful his Morocco overland book had been. Nice to finally meet up with him after many emails and a previously missed engagement due to a middle-ear infection (his not mine).
Whazoo should have left Saturday, but thankfully was able to stick around for a second night. Here he is practising some dog-hurling, a little known Scottish sport:
Stay tuned for yet more Expo action...
