21st August

It was an early start. We headed off to breakfast then to try and get our cupcakes. We were in a bit of a dilemma as there was a great place for us at the beginning of the line, but we did not have our cupcakes - in fact we could not find the bakery. After several trips through town we found the bakery - but it did not open until 7:30am and no one was answering any phone and we were due to leave at 7am.

We decided to try and get a pilot to get them and we would collect them along the track so it was off to the start. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. A friend was on his was to bribe the officials for the route instructions and to leave as close to the front as possible. So Robyn went with him - he got 2 sets of route instructions and requested that his car and 321 leave first - good man.

We did not do the bash route as we were saving our bash plate until we can get it fixed properly in Alice so it was black top today about 700km at 80-90km/ph that takes a while with stops.

We had a couple of buzzes from the helicopter. A few petrol stops. Early in the afternoon our cupcakes caught up to us so it was time to sell. The helicopter landed at the Cannonball Run Memorial with some bash cars so we sold off our cupcakes to Basher's and travellers.

The evening was at our own discretion so we cleaned Candy and caught up with some Bashes for tea.

On our way back to our accommodation we dropped some of the Toshiba members at their hotel.

It was then time for the Cupcake Boat to be put together.