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Car 2470 Join Car 2470 on its adventures on the 2013 # # Gold Variety Bash

04/10/2016

Day 5 Lay Day Lake Burrendong. Bit of car maintainence in morning before spending the day around the campfire rehydrating from 1pm. Fully rehydrated by 9pm and into bed. Very restful night interrupted by 60km winds and driving rain. Fortunately Angelo managed to sleep through the whole thing by pulling the blanket over his head when he felt the first drops of rain hit his face.

A couple of "before" photos from the farewell last week, everyone looking well rested and unscathed. Will be interesting...
04/10/2016

A couple of "before" photos from the farewell last week, everyone looking well rested and unscathed. Will be interesting to compare these to the "after" photos at the end of the bash...

04/10/2016

Day 4 Mudgee to Lake Burrendong.
Rain overnight caused. a complete change to the bash route today and we ended up doing the whole day on the bitumen. Lunch was at Wellington where we set a bash team record of eating 4 dozen home made mini caramel tartlets. We had a Bash sanctioned afternoon pub stop at the Royal Hotel in Yeoval where we introduced the locals to our Paul Gallen cardboard cutout and helped them celebrate Mad Monday. Set up our campsite at Lake Burrendong before dinner and a private concert for 350 bashers by Joe Cammilieri and the Black Sorrows. Cracker of a night.

Day 3. Gunnedah to Mudgee. Just another day at the bash office Today. No break downs or bogging so. Locals reckon the co...
02/10/2016

Day 3. Gunnedah to Mudgee. Just another day at the bash office Today. No break downs or bogging so. Locals reckon the country in this area is as good as has ever been. Looks spectacular. Caught up with the blokes who bought our first bash car which is ironically now themed as a Queensland car. We subsequently towelled them up in a sledging competition. NSW 2 Queensland 1

Day2How do we summarise yesterday in just a few sentences!!!!!!We left Moree all excited ...... Most of us !Called in t...
02/10/2016

Day2
How do we summarise yesterday in just a few sentences!!!!!!
We left Moree all excited ...... Most of us !
Called in to to see Schippy's mate at Narrabri Bowling Club ..... we missed him as he actually works in Gunnedah.
Then off to CSIRO telescopes .......that's when things turned for the worse.
We discussed how we should make the Gunnedah pub by 4.30 which was bad karma because we only travelled 300m in the next 4 hours. The road became so boggy they re-routed the Bash behinds us and we were the second last car to go through the problem area.
You know your bogged pretty deep when you can't open the doors because of mud and the 45 degree angle.
Fos and Angelo abandoned their mates who had to hitch a ride on e bonnet of a car to be reunited.
things improved as Fos drove another car away and we were finally feeling team harmony.
After a couple of tow outs we eventually made our way into Gunnedah at 8.30 and caught up Fos who was less than impressed with the cleanliness of the Van.........I must admit a few pieces of KFC on the floor didn't add to his enthusiasm.
So sore from laughing !

Short photo summary off our Day 1
30/09/2016

Short photo summary off our Day 1

30/09/2016

Day 1 Warwick to Moree. Not sure where to start a summary of the day. After breaking our car key in the door last night and then realising that after 30 minutes searching underneath the car for the spare that we didnt have. Located Tim the Warwick locksmith who opened up his shop and cut a couple of keys for us. Missed the official briefing session and dinner because if the above but slept soundly in the haunted Criterion Hotel. Made the start line in time and then formed a greeting party as the 350 bashers crossed the border into NSW. One of us suffered a cut to the bridge of their noses in a fundraising boxing match before heading back across the border for lunch at Texas. 5km out of Texas heading to Moree and websuffered a mechanical breakdown which required a new fuel filter and coil. Aborted the afternoon bash run due to time constraints and we are now heading to Moree via Gundagai on the bitumen. Sore in the guts from laughing.

2013 Bash
24/09/2016

2013 Bash

2016 ‘Dusty Swags to Chequered Flags’Variety BashWarwick to Bathurst30th Sept to 9th Oct, 2016ItinerarySTART WarwickDAY ...
24/09/2016

2016 ‘Dusty Swags to Chequered Flags’
Variety Bash
Warwick to Bathurst
30th Sept to 9th Oct, 2016
Itinerary

START Warwick
DAY ONE Fri 30th Sept Moree
DAY TWO Sat 1st Oct Gunnedah
DAY THREE Sun 2nd Oct Mudgee
DAY FOUR Mon 3rd Oct Lake Burrendong
DAY FIVE Tue 4th Oct Lake Burrendong
DAY SIX Wed 5th Oct Young
DAY SEVEN Thu 6th Oct Narrandera
DAY EIGHT Fri 7th Oct Forbes
DAY NINE Sat 8th Oct Bathurst
DAY TEN Sun 9th Oct Bathurst

22/09/2016

8 more sleeps until Variety Bash 2016 gets underway. $9000 raised for our Variety donation, car running smoothly (except lights and blinkers) and team of Gava, Foster Casey and Schipp in excellent health. 3000km from Warwick to Bathurst starts Friday 30th September.

Day 10 Mareeba to Mission Beach (the finish line). 5.30 start to pick up windscreen in cairns. Driving through pea soup ...
14/08/2013

Day 10 Mareeba to Mission Beach (the finish line). 5.30 start to pick up windscreen in cairns. Driving through pea soup fog in the dark in heavy dew not the best way to start the day but had to be done so we could finish the bash. Met up with fellow bashers for lunch at Sth Johnstone state school where we again roundly booed by all students. Final authorised pub stop for bash before travelling as a group of 120 vehicles to the finish line at Mission Beach. Great bash, a million stories, new mates, a stack of kids and schools helped out and just good old fashioned fun. If anybody has any thoughts ir dreams of doing a bash, just do it.

Playing the cymbals with the catering trays. Rare form this.
13/08/2013

Playing the cymbals with the catering trays. Rare form this.

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