2005 Spring Tour news & pics

[Deleted]

Sorry guys for the delay in reporting the Spring Tour ......Ditzy's Broadband is down due to the storms last week & we've been offline for the last few days .....we'll do a post asap.

Cheers

Mark

[carrots]

I thoroughly enjoyed the "spring tour" and thank
Gary for a great job in organising it. Its a big task
to organise such a run and have things run as
smoothly as they did. The old cars and vans did
everyone proud.

[WILL and Lyn]

I second that motion Carrots Snail did a great Job on the tour as well as Organising it
We even got showbags full of Goodies caps etc
met some great people and had an exceptional welcome from all of the great aussie farmers and country folk
It took me back to the fifties and sixties the simple life with the kind of reception only country folk can lay on it was totally memorable
how is this for a Gigantic welcome
And a real Garden Gnome



a whole country school

the F100and Trevs Tram
Hopefully the grand pooh bahs and Ditzys system will recuperate soon as said before they will do a praisie and photos of the entire trip
this is an interim fill

Will

[ditzygypsy]

Ok I am up and running......... no thanks to a particular provider

Here are a few shots of the trip taken by a few people. Just to tease you.

I will add afew more each night but if anyone wants the full story and album please email us and I will send you the disc.



Little pig little pig let me come in!!!!!!!!! acutally this is Snail the chief vintage vanner for the week......... not sure what he did but it was only the first day of the tour in Northam.......... Karen............ let him in.



On the road again............. we definintely made a sight and caused a stir.....



When ever we pulled into a country town the bush telegraph was on the ball and the towns folk would be out in droves taking photos and asking questions, I rekon we were all celebreties for a week.

Snail did an interview on the Country ABC radio so our reputation preceded us.


No it is not a drive in but Dallwallinew.......... that night we were treated to a lovely nosh up of foods prepared with the local native vegetation........... mmmmmmm wattle chocolate.



This is the Wreath Flower.......... a native of the area............but jarring my brains out over a 10 km corrogated road sort of took the shine off it.....

and more of the lovely flora.

more tomorrow..............

It was a wonderful week and each of us found something different........... I found the ghost at the Watheroo pub to be a fascinating topic...........

[Deleted]

Onya Ditzy
Photos look great. Keep 'em coming whilever your I.P allows it. can be frustrating.

Love the flowers .... can ya smoke them
Pubs fascinate me too.... always have trouble driving past 'em

Would love a copy of the disc. A request that i am sure will be echoed many times over.

Reddo

[Will and Lyn]

Gidday Reddo and Jailbarjuice
on the wildflower run apart from lots of driving eating and light refreshment it was good to see some of the refinements that various parties added to there vintage vans
Tucky had a fibreglass cover made to cover a little light generator for emergencies
Roger had his little teardrop set up with a dvd and T.V. where we would gather with our front and rear stalls seats to watch dvds of a night time blankets and all
but Billy corks was the best of the lot he fitted a battery powered doorbell to his van as well as a no junkmail sticker
Useless information but it just shows you even quirky people are welcome in our group
would you agree
fellas

Wildflower Will

[Deleted]

Ditzy and I were recently on a caravanning holiday up North, when, in this little town called Ballidu, in the middle of nowhere, this dude rocks up in a 1963 EJ Holden, with a 59/60 Globetrotter caravan in tow ......anyway, he pulls up outside this really delapidated old building thats says "GMH" on top ......what.. ...does this guy REALLY think he's going to get his Holden serviced there

Has this guy got some sort of problem .....he's driving a 42 year old car, with a 45 year old caravan .....will somebody please tell him its now 2005 .....and the service station closed in 1953 ;D ;D ;D





Then, we realised it is in fact, one of our newcomers ....Chris Dagg (Daggy) from Bridgetown WA ..... .....doing the 2005 Spring Tour.

So Ditz and I thought we'd better have a photo taken with him ......and Gemma (forum members Brad & Gemma).

Well done Daggy ......your original rig looked great

[ditzygypsy]

Ok folks here are some more photo's



This is a group of poor people who became so confused on the track............. the big question who is doing all the work.............. the one pulling or the one pushing............ the things you find on your travels...........



as usual we had to stop at some of the many car dumps around the place.............. at one stage the Grandpooh bah and his side kick Daggy............. got the scent early and were off in a cloud of dust. I have never seen Mark move so fast. they were disappearing over the horizon before I got out of the car.





These are are a couple of photo's of the two Vauxhalls on the tour. Jim's Cresta and Don Caravan and Gordon's Velox towing Snail"s Viscount.

Just anoher note, In Geraldton, Mark, myself and Jim were having lunch when a reporter approached us from the local rag. Apparently we had been spied coming into town and were again sighted at the docks by some locals who called the paper, there is to be a feature on our cars and vans in the Geraldton Paper.

Ditzy

[Deleted]

Hidey Ho there Ditzy type person

Great fodoes of the Vauxalls and vans. You even managed to get my black Frieghter with flames in the shot...... good girl.
So tell me are they taken early morning while you are make a dash to the toilet . Or late arvo while you are trying to find your way back to your van after "Happy Hour in the park"
Either way they are great shots. There is a real art in getting good pichas. Sometimes the difference can be just that few minutes later in the day when the light changes .

Dunno who the bloke dressed in red is, but he certainly looks more intelligent and better dressed than "The Gnome in the slazenger sloppy joe".

One more thing
I am gunna havta send you lot some grass seeds to throw around. That van park looks like a Woolworths car park.

Reddo - from the far greener side.

Go the Balmain ( oooops West ) Tigers in this weekends NRL footy semi finals.
Oh and thier playing that other stupid footy code grand final too this weekend ..... GO THE SYDNEY SWANS.
WEST COAST SUX !!!! There now. I can go to bed knowing I have destroyed east coast/ west coast relationships .

[will and lyn]

CAAARRRN THE WEST COAST EAGLES!!!!!!!!
real AUSSIE football played since 1882
3rd Premiership coming up
OK Reddo
Whats wrong with garden gnomes
I had to get into practice at being small because we are of to a car show in Albany this weekend and we are taking the Teardrop
see ya
Altogether now in the key of E
where the Eagles the west coast eagles and where here to make you cry
where the Eagles The West Coast Eagles so sydney stay home dont even try

Westcoast Will (who barracks for the Dockers)
just jumping on the Wagon

[yellowuki]

Sorry folks, to keep "diggin up bones" but, does anyone know what happened to these two vauxhalls? Secondly, how much would that Don behind the Cresta weigh???
Cheers, yellowuki ;D