May 2, 2009

CanTeen Trip 2009

This year we just had a day trip for the CanTeen crew - Froggy took us out to Wilbinga and we had a bit of play in the dunes. No dramas this year - we had one tyre roll off a rim but luckily not during a turn - Ozzie just hit a bit of a ridge and the tyre popped off.

Of interest were the other idiots out there. One guy in an older Jeep Cherokee was trying to climb a dune that had a bit of a sharp angle of entry to it at the bottom. He hit it at speed, bashed in the front, bottom part of his car and set the airbags off to boot. Nice work...

At the start, loading gear

Drivers gathering

CanTeen gathering

First stop - last civilised comfort stop before the dunes

Airing down

Over-the-shoulder shot as we're going into Wilbinga

In the Wilbinga bowl - much fun was had

Just after rolling the front passenger tyre off the rim

Poser shot

Lunch!

More playtime in the dunes

Mirror shot

Last stop on the way home

On the track into Wilbinga

Froggy's first attempt at climbing out of the bowl

Captain powering out of the bowl

Sparky not stopping as he climbs out

Paddy climbing out of the bowl

Pera in the bowl

Screech has one attempt....

And then makes it out

Goughie does it on the first try

But Tank doesn't

Bluey making the bowl look like a paved highway

Tank's second go at the climb

Ozzie showing how you should do it

Froggy finally doing it right

Glen (I think) on his first attempt

Once is not enough for Bluey

Glen makes it to the top

MacGyver's go

Paddy playing in the dunes

A random hill climb - too many white cars to figure out who it was and then HELLO MACCA!

Ozzie hits the rev limiter on a climb

Sparky does it easily

Captain does it almost without a run-up

And so does Fish

Paddy doesn't *quite* make it up

A random 100 series makes it up

Pera does it without any hassles at all

Tank makes the climb

Bluey has no hassles

Bluey climbing the final hill

Tazzie climbing the final haill