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[Spider]

Long time in the planning - day 1

A chilly start, some very light frost, starting to cue up for their driver's briefing and flag off start

 

 

 

 

 

There was a choice of cruises on the first day, this group went to the National Motor Museum at Birdwood

 

 

 

 

Also home to the 1977 London to Sydney Marathon Coke Moke

 

 

My wife and I went off on the Poker Run

 

 

 

 

Jack enjoying his lunch,,,,,,

[Aly-g]

iv'e never seen so many 'Mokes'  together, brilliant !

 

Allan

[Stevie W]

Keep the pikkies coming Spider, love these road trips you do!

 

Cheers, Steve.

Edited by Stevie W, 05 March 2023 - 08:22 AM.

[Designer]

Hi Spider,

 

Thank you for the update on the trip, great pictures.

I think you have more Mokes in one picture than we have in the whole of Blitty.

Who is Jack another fossil friend     or is that a selfie?

[4XMOKE]

Hi Spider,

 

Thank you for the update on the trip, great pictures.

I think you have more Mokes in one picture than we have in the whole of Blitty.

Who is Jack another fossil friend     or is that a selfie?

 

Jack is the bloke we prefer to have sat at the back !

[4XMOKE]

First class execution of the event there Chris.

Planned to perfection, well done team SAMC

[Spider]

Many thanks guys for the comments and feedback.

 

It's been a blast and not over yet.

 

 

Hi Spider,

 

Thank you for the update on the trip, great pictures.

I think you have more Mokes in one picture than we have in the whole of Blitty.

Who is Jack another fossil friend     or is that a selfie?

 

Jack does grace the pages from time to time. He was on this trip with me a couple of years back;-

 

https://www.theminif...off-again-lads/

 

I wouldn't put him in a 'fossil' class, though, he is in a class, one of his own !

 

 

Day 2 of our event. Show and Shine to kick the day off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the Moke-jam getting out

 

 

The Photo shoot that didn't quite go to plan, but worked out OK in the end

 

 

 

 

[Stevie W]

Superb weather and loads of lovely Mokes, glad you're enjoying it Spider! 

 

Cheers, Steve.

[Stevie W]

Funnily enough, I've been watching a guy on YouTube on a road trip from Sydney to Perth in an Austin 1100S (ADO16). Looks like a lot of fun!!!

[Spider]

Funnily enough, I've been watching a guy on YouTube on a road trip from Sydney to Perth in an Austin 1100S (ADO16). Looks like a lot of fun!!!

Having done Perth to Sydney a couple of times in the Moke, I can attest to it being a hell of a long way, but if you have the time, an awesome trip / adventure for sure. So many travel across is as getting from A to B and miss so much, eg, the world's longest golf course is out on the Nullabour Plain.

 

 

Day 3 of the Event - we had a choice of 2 cruises.

 

One to the All British Day at Echunga (sorry, I didn't go to this one and so I have few photos to post up)

 

 

 

 

 

The other Cruise was to the Murray River township of Mannum, via the Swan Reach and Walkers Flat Ferry crossings

 

 

 

How many Mokes can you get on to an 8 Car Ferry ?

 

 

The Murray. It was only a few weeks ago in flood, one of those 'once in a life time' type floods !

 

 

I never tire of this countryside.

 

 

 

 

 

[Stevie W]

Thanks Spider, more awesome pics! I think I can see 15 Mokes on that 8 car ferry ⛴ 

Seriously liking that early Landrover, very nice.

 

Cheers, Steve.

Edited by Stevie W, 07 March 2023 - 07:43 AM.

[Steam]

Excellent pics and reports. You gotta love a ferry crossing on the Murray.
A bit of trivia, Over its 2500 km length there are 58 crossings on the Murray River of which 14 are ferries.

Edited by Steam, 07 March 2023 - 12:05 AM.

[Aly-g]

brilliant pictures Spider, looks to be a great enjoyable road trip, thanks for posting your journey.

 

Allan