Last Day photo's Goondawini to Warriallda

Well it was the last day for us on the road we are did the morning section so we can say we completed the course with only a minor hickup allong the way which we recovered from.

Below is the phot's of the last day we had on the road.

This is the Breakfest tent the crowd appeares to be getting smaller in the mornings

People enjoying breakfast and getting ready for the section of driving. 

Do you think some people are suffering from the awards night the night before at Goondawindi RSL

The Twisted sisters talking to Candice Rapp from Camp Quality.

This is the very last driver briefing that we needed to attend.

This is the very last driver breath test and radio check and we didn't let the ambo's down we soaked the with the water pistols this day as well.

 This is the 4 of us at Warrialda at the finish just after the thunder king went skyward (Thanks Doc)

Craig having a break before we do the massive street parade at Warrilada

Craig shaking hands with Docs Car.

We made it to the Finish and Home

We have a some reallty big days none as good as yesterday when we got to Warialda and Doc let off a massive thunder king from the room mounted canisters on his car.

"YES WE HAD FINISHED"

We then a a huge street parade through the town, the whole town was there watching us.

We stayed for lunch and said our good bye's to our new Friends ready for a big drive home.

I Have some more photo's to put on tonight and a final summary of the trip.

Here a some photo's of our week.

Leave us some comments if you like.

What a great night in Goondawindi

Tonight was great night with the awards handed out Team Illawarra raised over $81000 with team BSL raising over $31400 of that money, there are 5 team Illawarra cars so that is a great effort by all contributing to the Illawarra Branch of Camp Quality.

The total amount of money raised by the 66 cars was 1.3 million which is outstanding and all involved should be congratulated, The Kombi has done us proud there have been a lot of people coming up and congratulating us on our efforts and finishing with out to much repair, Camp Quality have already invited us back for next year they are more then happy to have TEAM BSL01 in the fleet.

We are having a drink with the Illawarra rambo's as they are officialy known after a very long week of dusty, muddy, wet and happy trails, the water pistols have been a great relief with the ambo's as they where happy to get into us at very oppurtunity, someone even decided to place honey on our door handles today, lucky it wasn't super glue.

ALL IN GOOD FUN.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Tomorrow caps off the last day on our esCarpade and we all have had a ball.

Kombi Nick Name

I forgot to tell you all the Kombi nick name.

The "Titanic" due to the big rockberg that took us out.

We arrived a Goondawindi this afternoon all well!!!!

Today was a good day we started at breakfast as a museum at Dalby full of old cars and tractors, The food was really nice and it was in one of the old sheds full of old fire engines, there was some very intersting equipment there that serviced Dalby for a number of years some of the stuff was dated back to the late 1800's

These are some of the old trucks in the yard.

This is a old hearse complete with a coffin in the back it was a bit eary.

This is an old steam train.

Today was a great rewarding day for us we went to a couple of schools and handed out our goodies as the kids came running to the cars all the escarpadiens started unloading our water pistols on the kids, the kids where having a great time, then we went and participated in the puppet show yes we are thing singing and dancing as part of the show, the puppets tell the kids that they shouldn't treat kids differantly when they are sick. the kids loved it and as we left we unloaded the water pistols again we actually filled our water can 3 times and we left empty, that is more then 60lts of water.

 This is the puppets in action telling the kids about how to deal with kids living with cancer it was a really good show for all of us.

This is the boys at the hotel in Goondawindi it has been a big day with a number of muddy river crossings and we have a large number of admirers we are out performing a number of cars in the kombi on these river crossings and muddy tracks, we have met a number of people who everyday ask us how we are going and they are impressed with the staminar we have.

I leave you now with a comment that was made today from one of the cars.

"That Kraut can will not get across there"

Didn't I have great pleasure calling over the radio the Kraut Can is through no rope on the front good luck with your crossing.

Tonight is the awards night i will update tonight if we win anything.  At least it will not be anything from the car as the front number plate is still in the cabin.

More money to our total Thanks to the Jim Knowles group

We had a sponsor come and have dinner with us tonight at Dalby, yes thats right we know people everywhere that has been 3 towns in a row that we have known some body.

Tonight the Jim Knowles group courtesy of Greg Keys donated more money to camp quality, when we gave them the money they where wrapped there was a slight hint we are really close to the 1 million mark for this bash by all the cars, this makes our total over the $31400 mark for our car alone. 

There are 66 teams and over 200 people, today we even had a lady at a flag us down at a farm in the middle of no where with her 2 kids and gave us money, all of them where impressed with what we where doing.

There are some people on the farms that are not entirely wrapped as i got my first bird from a farmer on his ride on mower, i gave him a wave as we passed and much to my surprise he gave me the bird.

He must of had the washing on the line as all you could see was dust and a man sitting on a bright orange mower with his finger proudly and firmly in the air.

We are having a great time for such a worthy cause.

We met and had a chat with the CEO of Camp quality and he was impressed with the Kombi and our efforts.  

We Arrived at Dalby with no INCIDENTS!!!!!!!

Hello everyone from Downtown Dalby in outback QLD.

We arrived at Dalby today after leaving Hervey Bay this morning, Hervey Bay is such a nice place i think all of us want to go back there soon for a visit without having to repair a car.

This is the sign where we stayed notice the sticker down the Bottom.

"WE LOVE THE GONG"

Poor Andrew will have to clean that off when they find it.

This is a place in Hervey Bay called wet side there is a small water park for kids plus a surfing platform due to the lack of surf there.

All the boys ready for a big day this morning at Hervey Bay, Rebecca is all repaired and ready for action, she didn't stay this clean for long, the guy at car lovers didn't look real happy when we left.

The Dragon is back on the car after a terrible incident the day before he got knocked off by a low flying branch.

This is all the cars lined up at Goomeri State School, we got the water pistols out and the kids loved it, we thought it was good while we were wetting them, but they didn't, they all gang up on us we where soaked for hours.

Another shot of all the cars at the school, we where happy that we actually got there early enough to join in on the action, this was our first school visit.

The Dragon enjoying the view at the school.

Now we have all managed to get some unofficial nick names while we have been away, i will tell you what they are.

Dave "Crocodile Dundee" King for his persuasive method to get a cow off the road, i wont explain you will have to ask him.

Simon "the white Knight" O'Connor for attempting to help all the broken cars in the field yes thats write we havn't been the only car that has major issues.

Peter "Mr Cool" Hales as he wears his sunnies everywhere even at night time.

And

Craig "Ernest Hemingway" Knowles for my efforts on this blog.

We are about to head off for dinner at the Dalby RSL will try and update more when we get back tonight.

Big day today Kombi ready for action

Today was big day we got to breakfast at 10:30 as we where developing a action plan how we where going to fix Rebecca the night before over a few quite water's

We got Rebecca fixed and ready for action thanks to Andrew getting the parts we needed by the time we had all the parts it took us about 2 hours to fix ready for the next 3 days driving.

We think Dave is actually doing somthing WE THINK!!!!

All the boys in action under the car carrying out the repairs.

 Quick Quiz, who owns this muffin top!!!!! Hint SOC

The boys before someone decided to walk 10km to dinner.

All celebrating the repairs being completed ready for a big day Tomorrow with Andrew the new honoury 5th team member at Hervey Bay Hotel.

The food was great at Hervey Bay Hotel one of the best meals we have eaten on the trip!!! Nice water there too!!!!!

We will update more tomorrow night at Dalby