Thread: Levuka 2013

Nice work Gaz

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Recovering the little Rotax Buggy after its flop

BuggyLevuka - YouTube

Nice picks and video Gaz. I have to say that being in the buggy when she flipped over did tend to get the heart racing. Although in think I was more nervous in the playground when Greg was tackling some of the vertical sections. I am sure he was trying to see if the buggy would flip over end to end

Adam and I had a great trip in the Sherwood. We left late morning on Friday and bumped into Wayne just outside of Nerang. Stopped at Beau for some KFC with Wayne then headed out. Heard Busman cursing a slow vehicle as we headed over mount Lindsey so we pulled over at a straight section and waited for them to catch up. Headed into Levuka with a small convey of 4 vehicles. Setup camp in the dry and with daylight and settled down for a few beers.

Went on a firewood run late in the day and we all collected enough wood for a decent fire Friday night. Tip for anyone collected wood is to make sure you never follow Busman's orange beast back to camp when he has it loaded with wood with the tailgate down. Funny how the logs just don't stay in the truck. After stopping a couple of times to load Dave back up again we made it back to camp.

Dave and Wayne did a good job of teaching the kids how to light a fire safely with petrol and diesel. How else are you going to get wet would to light when its raining

Headed out on Sat morning with the group lead by John. He did a great job checking the routes and the conditions and Adam and I had a ball putting the Sherwood through its paces. Thanks for all the encouragement in the playground. I finally got up the hill on the third attempt. I heavy right foot definitely does the trick on the slippery steep sections. The V8 sounds quite nice in low range at 5500 rpm.

Parked the Sherwood at lunch and went out in the afternoon in Greg's buggy. We caught up with Cheeky and Harry and followed them through the creek section. Definitely an impressive little buggy that can go almost anywhere. Just glad I was in the buggy with a roll cage when it tipped and not the Sherwood. It does show how easy it is for vehicles to tip on a hill when the nose starts coming around. We righted the little beast, fired her up and went again. Apart from all the mud there really wasn't any damage.

Followed Harry and Cheeky to the playground. Watched some impressive driving by Cheeky. That silver D1 definitely goes well.

Had a great weekend even with the rain. Thanks to the organisers and trip leaders and TECs for making it safe and enjoyable weekend

Jeffrey

well even though it was wet we had a great turnout and a good dare training run with some interesting antics from my v8 and we were able to experience some real live recoveries and watch one very dodgy recovery with a tojo pulling a pajero with the snatch strap on the tow ball!
he even broke the strap for us, so some lessons learnt there.
special thanks to all my passengers for tolerating my driving and rock and rolling [one nearly was a roll!]
i didn't take any pictures, sorry.

Well considering the oncoming weather event, we ended up with a great turn out at Levuka 2013.
16 campers and a few day trippers, which was very impressive considering.
Sat morning various groups set out on their trek through some pretty slippery sections, which this park is renowned for.
Harry commenced the Dare with Gary, (Cheekys) help.
Few of our new members certainly got to know what their new Landies were capable of, and were impressed the same.
The modified guys set out who were, Grant, Grimace, Pete, Greg in the Polaris and myself.
We headed to towards Rosemary road and met with a very slippery and treacherous track ahead.
The rain was beating down for hours as one by one had to winch ourselves up the very steep track to the top.
Grimace without a winch decided to work that 4.6 at 6500rpms and also work the big 37's to try and get to the top.
He nearly managed but dropped a bead on the rear left.
Bugger as it was a really bad spot and a 1.5 hours recovery.
So after nearly 4 hours, we had only managed to cover one track
Various groups later set out to tackle a few other tracks, then call it a day.
It rained pretty much the whole time, but most campers made the best of it by huddling under tarps for some good old landie banter and more.
A large portion of the campers left today (Sunday) and headed home.
Bit of a hairy drive home in the Rangie, with the high winds.
Very surprised and pleased to still see so many members show up, even thou the weather was pretty crap..
2013 looks to be a great year for the club and its members.

Bring on the next trip, but hopefully with alot better weather.

Wow what a great turnout!

Zoe, bubs and I made it 10:30pm friday and set the camper up in the rain Was expected though as was bucketing down here on the coast.
Went for a run the next morning with JohnR leading the pack. Creek run was fun. Were a few interesting parts. My rangie decided to stop whilst going through a 2 foot puddle but thanks to DJhampson for the tow out.. I hope there were no photos taken of his D3 pulling my old rangie! Just put a new motor in last week so must be a gremlin somewhere.. maybe ECU or a temp sensor..

Saturday arv the rain was set in. We knew it wasn't going to get much better so we made the decision to head home as it clearly wasn't going to fine up anytime soon. Hope everyone had a safe trip back.

Was great to finally get out and take Luke for his first camping trip. Also to finally catch up with you all as its been too long since our last trip. Was looking forward to a good campfire chat but the weather decided otherwise! Hoping to do quite a few more trips this year

Camo

We watched a series climbing a very slippery section, seems that the twist locks are also necessary, just pushing the yellow knob or moving the red lever isn't the only thing we need to do!
But I am amazed that the car got as far without the driven front wheels!
Well done twist lock Tim!

Originally Posted by Camo

I hope there were no many photos taken of his D3 pulling my old rangie!

Fixed that for you