25 August

This is our last driving day on the Bash as tomorrow we are just driving out to Silverton for lunch about 25km out of Broken Hill. We left our friendly hosts and headed to the school. One of the cars left the queue from close to the front so we were in.

Breakfast was great... bircher, pancakes ...

During breakfast it was decided that Brenda would go in The Bush Cricketers Car and Joey would navigate in Candy.

We were all in our cars waiting to go when word got around that it was a reverse start. There was much jostling and turning around so Candy was up over the curve around the block along the path and out a driveway getting a relatively good start.

The road was fairly slippery with gravel so it was a slow drive. The triple three cars were having a fun day in the ruins of an old pub.

It was then on to lunch. It was all very relaxing. At lunch we visited a school with only 8 students..all boys! presentations were made and we were told that the parade through Broken Hill was on at 3pm. There was no way we or many cars were going to make the parade. It was definitely a no dirt afternoon, straight through on the tar. There were many cars limping into lunch as we were leaving.

The Burns Boys parked the nose of their Merc up to our bull bar and the Cavemen were parked right on our tail. However, because they wanted to go dirt they left before we even saw what they had done.

We passed through Cockburn so we got a few photos and wrote our names on the wall of the pub.

We were not at the muster for the parade but we caught up in town with the Basher's and all those who were with us. Towards the end there were Bash Cars wandering all over the place lost until we finally all got to the Show Ground.

There was a 25th Anniversary Dinner that was well catered for.

There were a few disasters today ...the Navy Team rolled one of their cars and several were mechanically not good. We are not sure how many cars have not made it into Broken Hill yet.