18th August

Another beautiful morning, we collected our wonderful cupcakes and headed off to breakfast and presentations at a local school. Arriving early we were fairly close to the front of the line for the exit, unfortunately we had a slow leak in one of our rear tyres so it was back to our friend Brad at the local tyre centre to get it fixed and cut some of the length off our fuel guard as it was dragging and creating too much dust for those behind.
Mid morning many of the Basher's were visiting a local pub and desperately longing for cupcakes so we called in and sold stamps and gave away free cupcakes!
It was then off to lunch. It was a long morning with a few patches of dust to keep it interesting. One of the cars tipped on its side and fortunately no one was hurt.
When we got to lunch there was a nice little path left to the front of the que which we took advantage of. We were able to block in The Bush cricketers, interesting move. While we were getting our lunch 25 men were trying to lift our Candy car into the sandpit. Being unsuccessful they manoeuvred 5 cars to block us in. Some Virgin Basher's saw this and paid $200 to put The Bush Cricketers into the lockup. The Bush Cricketers paid to get out, so the Virgin Basher's paid another $600 for us to leave first. Two cars had to go out so we could then leave, those two were stopped so that we could pass them. Brenda managed to get the keys to The Bush Cricketers car, they were unable to fill with petrol as they only had one key to the petrol tank. It was all a bit of fun.
Late in the afternoon there was a fun stop where most cars took part in. It was then into Berri for tea. At tea Super Hubert did one of his magic shows.
We are now thinking of strategies and some pay back.