Levuka - BRASS MONKEY III

Not quite the live music gig - but nonetheless similar amounts of stupidity ensued.. Helped out Dunc load up the foodstuffs on a drenching Friday morning in Brisneyland which ended up involving the FatMan in an underground carpark exchange of freshly cooked bread products. If it were not for Fats we wouldn't have gotten away from Brissie without a serious repacking of the whole cruiser.


Arriving at the campsite after a cracker of a ride down with Dunc and his camera, we watched on as the brave two wheel drive cars attempted to get to the campsite, including the Mitsubishi Mingna..

Two-wheel drive cars look heaps tuff compared to the 4-wheelers.. Had a few snaps of the 'rolla as well but they were corrupted.

After the two-wheelers and the Prado Grande had their fun getting into the campsite, there was some news developing over the 2-way about the Smokey Bear Patrol filling up to the dashboard at a very late dusk run to Deep Mud. PAX of said Smokey Bear Patrol stepped up to the plate and got balls deep (literally) in mud sorting out the big fella's mess. At some other stage of the Deep Mud madness, the Phat42 managed to break it's steering rod as well - leaving it to be left out in the pasture until suitable parts arrived.


The Deep Mud dudes returned back from the fun and games well into the night. The FatMan rocked up at the campsite with said bread rolls and dinner began. With the campers fed, we needed a serious solution to the constant maintenance needed for the top campsite fire - enter the Texas Chainsaw Massacre madman..

He seemed to enjoy chopping up trees just a little too much - dragging the biggest bitchin pieces of tree he could find around the campgrounds back to the fire and cutting sik (fully) with the Stihl.

Saturday was the day of some serious wheeling - my PAXing began with a ride with Dunc down to Deep Mud to check out the damage to the Phat42. We left Deep Mud to go to what seemed to be a 4x4 bowl. Watching the Bronco head up the hill on the first go produced a few scary moments - I'm sure it only rattled the passengers' nerve.

Next adventure was in the Smokey Bear patrol over to the test track - which was one of the best drives I had went on. Yogi Bear took the Patrol over the logs which set the benchmark for the rest of the drivers over with us. Best pics went to the Bronco's successful attempt, entitled Pwning The Logs:







































































The last trek of the day was with the Tuff Triton. Playing True Blue was not the only awesome thing about this vehicle - it conquered the Deep Mud hill on normal tyres..



























































Later on in the evening, some awards were being handed out - I won the BM3 Annoying F**k award.. Who managed to top the class in spelling - was it the nosepicker (a fine product of the Victorian education system) or the innocent water drinker (who probably chose Maths For Living in senior High School), not sure but the only presently available evidence points to these guys :) Also, attempts at waking me further by colouring in my ear, shoving a stack of ice down my back, taping cans to my head and cable-tying a collection of cans to my wrist did not work.













Being accused of having sexual relations with a Smurf, dressing up as Braveheart or being part of the Blue Man Group were perks of winning the award. Another perk of the award was waking up Jense with a late night impromptu singing of the first verse Black Dog by Led Zepplin. "Hey hey momma, I like the way you move, I'm goin to make you sweat, I'm goin to make you groove.."











Getting the blue shat off my face was not fun. What was cool is the fact it was the first time I met my new flatmate and her sister, Mum & Dad. A quick call to my Uncle (Spray Painter by trade) and I was removing the crap off with Turps after my new flatmate's eye makeup remover did squat. After a refreshing Turps session, said new flatmate gave me a facial mask to help get the nikko out of my pores.




A big cheers to everyone for a memorable trip away from it all.