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Hi all,

The trip was a great success, we all arise from a not so quiet night nice and early and

eager to get into it. Uncle Steve, Cal, Lurch and I wandered over from Dereck’s new joint

and started digging out the wombat holes to make our life much harder..... and it did!! It

all started with the 4 of us cleaning out the wombat holes and as Steve and Lurch were

busy digging Cal and I dug the mother of all holes. Trent then rocked up tired as all hell

and grabbed a shovel to enjoy the fun, we then decided to try them out!!! Only being

there for short of an hour Steve rolled out the big 80 and got through 1, 2, 3 holes then

click click click ‘bang’ our first CV. Then Trent came through and did them well, then

Callan tried them and got himself jammed in that mother of a hole that we dug earlier and

yep there was that clicking noise but no bang so that’s 2 CV's in an hour gone………

Trent had another go and them gremlins came back and the clicking came back, so this is

3 CV's in less then 3 hours. Steve parked up and removed the damaged CV and got the

80 going again and then pssshhh he lost a front right tyre which rolled off the rim. Cal,

Lurch and I went up to grab a large machine tyre to drive over, I rode on the tyre as Cal

dragged it down the hill.

Allan then rocked up with Jeep in hand and had a quick play before the engine wouldn’t

run. Then the rest rocked up Danny & Jacinta, Mark and his son, Collin and family, Dave

& Pauline and Dereck, so we’re all here having a good old time making a mess of

everything and then Graham from Eco Muse turns up in his Shorty to take happy snappy’s

of us all.

The fun starts as I started driving the wombat holes then psssshhhh we started loosing

tyres, I lost a front right tyre so that’s now at 3 CV's stuffed and 2 tyres gone. I piled in

to Cal’s bus and we drove over to see that Dereck had rolled one as well, same again front

right. As Dereck and Steve repaired Dereck’s 80, Cal and I repaired mine. Danny then

came through the 600m bog hole with Colin behind, Trent behind him and then Col’s

electrics got wet and the engine shut off and Callan had to pull him out. Anyway we got

all the tyres repaired and as I pushed my reinflated 35 over to where my car was, Pauline

then zipped through the paddock and then ‘BANG’ right hand front tyre, there’s another

one gone so now this is 4 tyres and 3 CV's. In amongst all that ‘bang’ Gavan swiftly rolled

one as well, now we’re at 5 tyres and 3 CV's. We then we all gathered up for a group

photo.

Al's Jeep was getting some attention by Cal and Danny with me on the jumper leads then

"Brumm" the jeeps running again!!! Then we see this 3WD 80 tying to get through the big

bog hole, nope you need a 4WD Steve not a 3WD!! And before too long the Jeeps going

through the big bog hole in the middle of the paddock making it look easy, naturally I

then had a go and got through it just…..

We capped off the day when we all had a bite to eat and some of Marie's lovely cookies,

the day trippers packed up and slowly left as we set up and removed the remainder of

Steve’s Cv's and Callan's newly found broken one.

Then time for ‘who’s got the faster 4x4’ grudge between Callan and I began, we zipped

over to the Drag Strip on the other side of the creek and settled it by having a race with

Dave calling the start and Steve, Gav and Lurch heard over the radio "Ready, 3, 2, 1,

Go!". From the distance they saw plumes of black smoke roaring out of our tail pipes and

resulted in me winning by half a car length, and then it turned into Nissan Vs Toyota.

Naturally we all had a go at racing each other as Dave in the new Hunge rocked up

against me, then "Ready, 3, 2, 1, Go!" Dave cheated and launched on 1 not Go! and I

got beat by a mile, Al and Dave had a go as Dave’s car was sneaky being a constant beat.

Al's rocket rod Jeep and Al said I’ll give you another go in 4x4 "Ready, 3, 2, 1, Go!" and Al

only lost by a car length, ahh that’s much better! Then Gav had a go at Dave and Dave

won that, then Steve and I and then Lurch and I had a go then they went up to the wash

bay were that bloody 2WD 80 was bogged.

Cal and I had a last play in the wombat holes as my cars radiator was full of mud and

started over heating, so we went up to the wash bay where the hunge recovered the 2WD

80 and we all had a wash. It was Lurch's turn for a wash and it sunk into the ground as

he was washing it - luckily he drove it out!!

That night we all sat around the camp fire half asleep, Dereck and Amanda invited us in to

their nice new massive house and we all had a feed on Al and Marie's beer stuffed chicken

and a mix of all the food we had leftover and cooked up. We then stumbled back out to

the fire, as every one was just so knackered we all went to Bed.

Big Congrats to Kelly for putting up with Rachael's yabber on the way down and winning

the "Show and Shine" - well done Kelly you deserved it, and a well done for Steve coming

second.

Thanks Graham for taking photos of us, keep up the good work mate!!

All in all it was a hell of a day if you weren't there sorry but you missed out on some good

shenanigans

Thanks for a great weekend guys!

Dennis