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Great day once again, thank you organisers, thank you ball boys.
4 leaf sprung vehicles plus Big Dog in his D3 downhill recovery vehicle met at Mc Donalds at Beauy around 7.45 (well some did, others were slightly later) had the mandatory intake of sugar and fat and diligently set off to the other side of the road where some emergency repairs (fiddling) was done to a carby that for some still unknown reason didnt want to idle, then belatedly hit the road in earnest. The motley crew consisted of:
Ho Hars in their S3 4cyl shorty
Tim J and his PSIL Phil in Banjo, the S3 4cyl Game
Zulu Delta and spouse in Daisy the S2a 4cyl ex mil GS
and Col Coleman and the General turned up in a S3 6cyl ex Military FFR, newly registered (Club plates) and on its maiden voyage, shown in this shot with either the Colonel having a rest, or giving it a clutch bleed!!
The (on this trip anyway) not required recovery vehicle that accompanied us all, was piloted by Big Dog, all on his lonesome this trip.
Once the show actually got on the road we followed the Mt Lindesay south past Laravale then turned off on to the Lion's Loop road, visited the loop lookout, but alas, no trains in sight, then carried on and chucked a left toward the Border Ranges National Park.
This bit of road was an eye opener to me as the last time I travelled this particular section would have been around 1967/8 with a load of troops on the back of a Mk3, heading up to one of the many training areas in the area that were used by JTC Canungra.(These ranged right down past Wiangree in JTC's post war heyday).Whilst here, we detoured off into the Antarctic Beech Tree picnic/camp area (I had never been in here before) for a look-see and general breather. Magnificent forest scenery everywhere with the countryside looking almost at its peak after some good weather.
Luckily for us, Big Dog was able to let us know on various parts of the trip what the outside temperature was and this type of information could be really vital at times I guess although I personally didn't see the point as the temperature in the cab of Daisy was a constant 30 degrees on the gearbox side leg and about 12 degrees on the outside leg so I guess that all in all the temperature was a comfortable average of around 21 or so.
Morning tea and lunch were both culinary delights with morning tea offering a choice of Cinnamon Swirls, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate crackles, Carrot and Walnut cake, peanut and Chocolate chip biscuits and a Sticky Bun, washed down with either a tea or coffee.
Lunch was a take it/ make it yourself affair and, mine at least, was most enjoyable.
Whilst up in the higher altitudes we were travelling amongst a light mist from low flying clouds and the shot at lunch shows the smoke from Harry's roaring fire adding to the misty effect of the clouds.
A lunch time guest.
A magnificent view of the escarpment of the caldera looking towards Mt Warning (As per normal with its head in the clouds) to the left of centre and showing the Pinnacle to the right of shot.
A new car (well to us anyway) so the bonnet goes up and every male is automatically drawn to look.
There was a bee hanging around this Black Boy in full flower I swear, but he seems to have disappeared behind the back somewhere.
Time beat us once again so we left the National Park, joined on to the Kyogle Murwillumbah road and travelled via Uki to Murbah then pretty well, from there, hightailed it home via the highway to beat the darkness (A problem with S2a lights believe me)
A delightful day out, with fantastic scenery, friends and food to boot as well as an opportunity to give the old girl (Daisy, that is) a run. Patsy and I both enjoyed the day immensely and look forward to another before too long.
Regards
Glen
Originally Posted by Psimpson7
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