One of the funny displays someone had prepared to greet the riders in this year’s Tour Down Under was this fellow near Watervale. It seems he was really serious about his training regime for the big race. An interesting thing happened while I was taking this photo. A journalist from the local Balaklava newspaper pulled [...]

Observant spectators at this year’s Tour Down Under would have seen plenty of interesting sights along the various routes taken by the riders. I took this photo of one of the “spectators” in front of the hotel at Watervale, just south of Clare where the race started. By the looks of it, he has spent [...]

Last month we went to stay with our daughter in Clare. We especially went to see the start of the 2010 Tour Down Under. The first stage of this year’s race started for the first time in the main street of Clare. On our way to Clare the day before the race start we were [...]

On the day before the start of this year’s Tour Down Under in South Australia I took a hour or so to travel through the small towns near Clare to photograph some of the interesting decorations in the district. This was the first time in the 12 years of the tour that a stage had [...]

The 2010 Tour Down Under Stage 1 started today in Clare in the mid north of South Australia. We took a short drive from my daughter’s home and found a good viewing position in front of the Clare Primary School. We arrived about an hour early and found a shady spot to set up our [...]