This would have to be my favorite picture of Perry Bros Circus.
My grandfather left Perth in 1966 and decided to head back to QLD.
Before this trip all other circuses would either go back east on the train or over the Nullarbor to SA but he and my grandmother decided to attempt to head to Darwin by heading into the wild north of WA and on to Darwin then back to QLD.
No other show had ever gone via this route before and it must have been very daunting as back then, vast distances between towns and basically only goat tracks for roads and sometime like the pic tells, no road at all.
This shows the pioneering spirit of all the early show people as back then no mobile phones or help if you got into trouble hundreds of miles from nowhere.
You had to rely on your own ingenuity to get you though.
I think the greatest thing about this, is this would have been the first time many people living up in those isolated towns and communities would have ever seen the likes of Elephants, Lions, hyenas, monkeys and leopards which they took with them on this epic journey.
Every time I look at this pic it fills me with admiration for my Grandparents and Parents and their Perry Bros Circus.
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