QLD - Expression of Interest for May 2011 Trip

[Silver]

It was great to meet you all and have some company when out and about. Kat, thanks for being a great navigator for Fran. It was nice to meet you and yours, and the much maligned, but apparently now accepted as at least adequate hire car - maybe it was Steve's good driving :-)

Thanks for the lovely warm welcome from you all, and Sandra, that burger tided me over beautifully until a light dinner tonight :-)

Our daughter had a great time with the other kids - thanks to those who hosted the invasion as they moved from camp to camp - when they weren't down at the creek :-)

Finally, a special thanks to the Doglex dishwashers, who along with the birds did a great job of cleaning barbecue plates and anything else left within range!

[GUtsy ute]

Hey guys,
I cant believe I missed out on such a great weekend and I got as close as Jimna just to find one of my tyres being flat and my spare being a piece of junk. I got so frustrated but thanks to a local guy named Russ or Ross cant quite remember ( he has truly been a legend and helped me as good as he can, lives on the same road as the visitor center), who gave me a hand I could at least make it back home that day. I went back to Kilcoy and the local 4x4 wrecker put a lot of effort into organizing a new tyre without luck as it was past 3pm by then.
But thats life I guess, NEXT TIME !!!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and thank you Scotty for pre-organising the catch up and sorry for not making it, i was close...
I have Maxxis 751, I heard they are not the greatest tyres, but they suit my budget better than anything else. I have a deep cut in the sidewall of the back right hand tyre, must have hit something sharp, I do not know but I heard the sidewall is the weak spot of those tyres, anyways no whinging I still enjoyed the drive between Mba and Jimna hehe
I learned my lesson on the first trip with the Patrol, always carry a decent spare tyre with you and if you can, take another one!

cheers chris

Hi Chris,
Sorry to hear about your bad luck with the tyres.
I missed out too, with the weekend being taken up with last minute preparations for my daughters'
walk across the Simpson Desert for charity.
It is for Youngcare and will take 12 days.
She flys out on Tuesday and we are driving out to Birdsville to meet her when she finishes.
Maybe we will meet up at the next outing, I'm going to make sure I'm at that one!

Cheers Gavin

[AB]

Photos anyone???...lol

We like photos!

[GUtsy ute]

Photos anyone???...lol

We like photos!

X2!!!! Lets see some!!

[snicko]

X2!!!! Lets see some!!

X3!! Where are they????

[AB]

Must admit though, when you get back from a big weekend away and your hungover and tired, the last thing you feel like doing is organising and uploading videos and photos to us seaguls...lol

Anyways, no sympathy....WHERES THE PHOTOS!!!!....

[Silver]

Kat, I have the photos on the computer - as discussed I'll send them to you - I guess you'll need to p.m. me an e-mail address?

would you mind resi2e and posting them here - don't want to spoil the glow of a nice weekend with technological challenges?

[Silver]

Hi Chris,
Sorry to hear about your bad luck with the tyres.
I missed out too, with the weekend being taken up with last minute preparations for my daughters'
walk across the Simpson Desert for charity.
It is for Youngcare and will take 12 days.
She flys out on Tuesday and we are driving out to Birdsville to meet her when she finishes.
Maybe we will meet up at the next outing, I'm going to make sure I'm at that one!

Cheers Gavin

Best wishes to your daughter Gavin, what an experience!!

[katwoman]

Kat, I have the photos on the computer - as discussed I'll send them to you - I guess you'll need to p.m. me an e-mail address?

would you mind resi2e and posting them here - don't want to spoil the glow of a nice weekend with technological challenges?

Ok. Shall do.
How do they come up if I post from iPhone ? Anyone ? Or use puter ?

[Silver]

Photos anyone???...lol

We like photos!

had a search for the how to post photos thread AB, but couldn't find it - could you help out please?

Kat - you wanted all the photos - are you happy to get them on your phone?