From us all - Our first day on The Road
It's been a great start to the 2024 BulldustNBack with 19 registered vehicles and several official vehicles, ranging from Land Cruisers to Mercedes to Audi Convertibles with age ranges of 1976 to 2020 - the cars not the participants!
We hit the road running on Thursday morning from High Wycombe Primary School who's principal Kate, her staff and year 7 pupils organised breakfast for our hungry mob - 63 people in all - a hungry mob indeed!
Fun Stop #1 - Goomalling
Car #007 took up the challenge to organise a FUN stop - Mark, John and Glen dressed up as Bio-Security Police looking for cars infected with Shot Hole Borers - and sprayed each car for a fee (which also gave each car a chance to win a $100 voucher for the Shoe Bar in the City). They raised in excess of $500 for KCSG.
Lunch - Konnongorring
The arrival of hungry Bulldusters were satisfied with a fabulous spread - courtesy of Margaret Metcalf, Joy Burnett and Robynne Dwyer. A brief description of the area was given by local farmer -
"Olympic" Sundowner
Well it had to be done and nearly everyone donned some form of 'Olympic' dress from the easily identifiable to the extremely vague - BUT a lot of fun and winners Christian (L) and Justin (R) Ridley (sons of Melva and Peter Stevens) won with their fantastic effort as the Jamaican Bob Sleigh Team. Geoff Kelly, son in law of Mark Horwood is on the extreme right in Tennis gear.
Thursday Dinner
Although we are in the 6th year of the BulldustNBack, President Kelly awarded 5-Year participation certificates to Mark Cenin (Senno) and Ross Heyder (Rosco) for participating in every BNB since it started in 2019.
In addition a Certificate of Appreciation was presented to ex Mill Point Rotarian Russell Lanyon (below right) for his years of support, ideas and creativity since the inaugural BNB.
Each day we had participants and officials, as well as volunteers and vocationals who joined us at certain times.
These volunteers and vocationals helped with preparing and bringing lunches to various outback areas and kept us well fed.
From Thursday breakfast at the start of the BNB to Sunday lunch, the finish of the BNB we had anywhere between 58 - 79 people in attendance at various events.
