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[Blacky]

We pointed them westward and headed off - nice bit of price gouging by BP on a Friday arvo at the servo we stopped at


Stopped again at an antique store for a quick look , the bride picked up a bottle for her collection



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[Blacky]

We checked in to the motel at the golf club and got into our cabaret gear for the Friday night “family reunion “ - pretty much my favourite night of the year I was way too busy socialising to take any photos .....




Gotta love a carpark full of FB/EK Holdens and one upset Volvo driver who thought I had to move my ute so they could park in front of their room - had to explain that I was actually parking in front of our room which was above and there was no designated parking spots for each room


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Saturday morning, cold but crystal clear skies and we are all at the sign on area to get our goodie bags and head off for the cruise , plenty of coffee helped here I actually behaved myself every night and didn’t have a hangover all weekend- maybe I am starting to mature at 55


Goodie bag bits , then it was time for the official welcome and we are off for the cruise, I didn’t take many pics as my Mrs does all that , for those of you on Facebook I am sure you would have seen plenty - the Gall brothers did the honours at the start


Couple of green wagons




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[Blacky]

There were 2 cruises , one down the bottom of the range at Scott’s garage , and one to a Heritage Park at the top of the hill so we did both , went down the hill first for a photo op and a look around


I sent the photographer an email asking to buy a hi resolution copy from him and he sent me the lot free of charge !!!


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Then we and a few others headed off to the other run for a cup of tea and damper - one slice of damper was enough for lunch , it was bloody good and it filled ya up , this place was pretty cool , there was HEAPS of stuff to look at we were there for about 3 hours and didn’t see it all.





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[Blacky]

Then we headed off and hit a couple of antique stores , found one bit of treasure


Then it’s off for the Saturday night dinner , more catching up and good times - we bought some raffle tickets and accidentally won an auction for a one of one 2020 Nationals polo shirt


Sat with the Croweaters including this yahoo


Polo shirt




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[Blacky]

Sunday morning show and shine , even Robin Tripp came all the way down from Darwin !!!






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The place was guarded by a friendly wookie




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[Blacky]

More cars





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[Blacky]

The event was held at the Cobb and Co museum and entrants received complimentary entry




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[Blacky]

Then we were off back to camp to get ready for the trophy presentation and the announcement of next years nationals. We got a lift home with the Gall brothers in this FB


And just like that it was all over - can’t believe how quickly the Nationals fly by


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[Blacky]

Well , it was all over except for the after party
We had 7 starters this year on the Monday morning- Doug (hamlet on the forum) and Greg from the QLD club put this one together - we fuelled up and headed off via back roads to our first stop in Rosewood for a cuppa and morning tea




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[Blacky]

Then we headed over to Tambourine and had a pub lunch at the bearded dragon.


Cheers !!!!!


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Then it was up the hill to Tambourine mountain and a walk through the forest and the waterfalls which I got no pictures of then it was off back down the hill and to the Bates Motel for the night


Welcome to 1976 !!! We were staying right near a heap of Chinese restaurants and had an awesome feed and a few nice glasses of red and called it a night.


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We all survived the night and mustered again in the morning and headed out of the big smoke to Fernvale for a breakfast pie , it was raining pretty hard for the hour or so drive but had cleared up by the time we got there - was the worst rain of the trip so we were very lucky weather wise we then headed off over Wivenhoe Dam to Somerset Dam and Kilcoy for lunch at the pub - some nice country through here



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