Gismo Queen and her King

Day 35 - Music in the Mulga

Another cold night, another sunny day although the wind was up a bit today so it seemed cooler. By the time we ventured out, the sun had good warmth to it which was handy as it was time for a haircut for Greg again. We had early elevenses as Neill and Pete headed out for firewood collection afterwards. A lazy morning around camp, then lunch as we contemplated our afternoon. Entertainment wise, there wasn’t much on the program until tonight’s bush dance. We did head up to the entertainment area mid afternoon and visited Bumpa in his Burrumbuttock Hay Runners truck. Bumpa started this program years ago to coordinate hay relief into drought affected areas. In 2016 he led a world record breaking convoy of 265 trucks to Ilfracombe all loaded up with hay for the local farmers. I have been donating to him for most of that time ($165 per bale, which includes the hay, the truck, meals for the volunteer drivers etc) so it was lovely to get to meet him. He was quite taken with Greg, and had a great chat about overcoming adversity. That was probably the highlight of our afternoon, as the coffee we got from one of the food vendors wasn’t! Back to camp for an early campfire and early dinner, as we listened to the yabby auction. One of the fundraiser activities is a yabby race on Sunday so today you got to bid for your entry into the race. We had heard our neighbours pooling together their money and they were prepared to bid up to $370! Most yabbies went for the $200 mark. We took our chairs up to the entertainment area for the first band at 7pm, which was a little ordinary. The second band were much better - we had seen them on one of our country music cruises, and the third band were awesome. They had us up dancing (in a COVIDSAFE way, of course!) and singing along! We had so much fun that we weren’t ready for bed when we got back to camp so we restoked the fire and cracked out the Bailey’s.

posted by Tracey @ 11:56 am