Long Trips Meeting

Location: Royal Coach Hotel, 24 Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town

Entrance: At rear

Parking: At rear. If there is insufficient space, additional parking is available at the (Econo Lodge car park) on the corner of Flinders St/Dequetteville Tce, directly across Flinders St.

Time: Dinner from 5.30pm (normal menu). Bookings essential! Please register through the Member Jungle app or on the club website.

If there are any last-minute bookings or cancellations, please contact Col: patcolp2@optusnet.com.au or 0429 647 863. Please do NOT contact the Royal Coach Hotel.

Meeting Co-ordinator & presenter: Col Price

Presentation: HAY RIVER RAMBLE – JUNE 2008 - Video by Col Price

(Lyndhurst Ochre Pits - Birdsville Track - Hay River Track - Lake Caroline - Batton Hill - Bush Tucker Tour - Goyder's Pillar - Catlewater Pass- Arltunga - Ruby Gap and more)

This trip had a few surprises -

• An oncoming vehicle rolled over in front of us on the Birdsville Track (vehicle a wreck, but the honeymoon couple ok)
• Track Flooding
• A group of unprepared 4wders - once found lost then later bogged
• A Christmas tree on the Hay River Track
• Tropic of Capricorn marker
• A roof rack ripped from one of our vehicles by a gum tree branch

Trip Participants – Jan & Allan Wiseman (Alien) - Jackeroo

                                  Carol & Graham Reed (Marvin) - Patrol

                                  Reg McKenzie (Tigger) - Challenger

                                  Pat & Col Price (Elmo) - Patrol

                       Also friends who became club members

                                   Laraine & Glenn Symons (Li’l Red) - Rodeo

                                   Rosemary & Paul Springbett (Springy) - Patrol

Important note:

The venue offers our club a dinner service from 5.30pm. Bookings are essential and must be completed through registering attendance on the Member Jungle app or on the club website - do not call the venue direct. Once you have registered, it is assumed you will be attending unless you update your registration in the app. Please contact Lance direct for late cancellations or bookings. The Long Trips Meetings Coordinator will manage all bookings with the venue, including meal bookings.

FUTURE LONG TRIPS MEETING DATES

TBA

Future meeting topics:

As always, we are looking for presentations/topics that will interest our group. If you do not like the old footage of past trips, how about creating a more modern presentation in whatever format you care to choose. Please contact Lance Boagey to discuss any presentations, slideshows, talks or video ideas.

lance.boagey@bigpond.com or 0409 765 144.