Trip Reports

Attending in no particular order Spence & Amber - L/C 76 Ivo & Lucy - L/C 76 Dave & Cindy - L/C 120 Gary, Claire, Gabriel and Azriel - L/C 80 Don and Jane - Not L/C Y61 Patrol Roger and Karen - L/C 76 Firstly, A big thanks to Penny and Spence for opening up your house to us once again. It is so awesome, and its a lovely place to go for a get away. With Anzac Day falling on a Tuesday, and by booking the Monday off from work, this has opened us up to a 4 day weekend, so why no

Attendees: Penny and Spence - Landcruiser Ivo and Lucy – Landcruiser Keith – Ranger Steve and Sue - Landcruiser Our journey to get to Victoria and the High Country (where our real adventure began) By: Lucy and Ivo After meticulous planning by Penny the 25 th February finally arrived. Penny and Spence, Keith (Blue Ranger), Ivo and Lucy left from Stirling. Travelling along the Tonkin Hwy, Steve (Burgo) and Sue joined us out of nowhere and we continued – stopping in Brookton f

Saturday 25th March 2023 Participants Don &Jane GU Patrol 4.2 (trip leader) Alan GQ Patrol (guest) Roger 76 Series Toyota Landcruiser (tail) Once again, we used a familiar meeting point for Harvey: The Vibe Service Station on the South West Highway and we all arrived on time. It is not hard to be punctual when you live just 10 kms north of Harvey. This trip was based on a recent recci that Joel and I had done some months ago on tracks that were new to us. The tracks were typ

18-03-2023 Participants Joel & Taylor - Suzuki Serria (trip leader) Don & Jane - GU Nissan Patrol Rob - Suzuki Vitera Simon & Diane - Mitsubishi Triton Wilco - Lexus V8 Wayne - Toyota Fortuna (Visitor) Roger - 76 Series Toyota Landcruiser (tail) The Dwellingup pub carpark provided a shady, easy to find starting point for an interesting afternoon’s drive. The tracks selected were new to everybody. Joel had found them and we had done a recci on them. We turned off Scarpe

Attending Sean, Luke, Lulu - Triton Deb - Paj Sport Lin - FJ Dave - Prado The Miami Bakehouse never disappoints as a meeting place for any jaunt down to Whitehills. A tasty morsel and warm coffee are a great way to start a trip, and Lin found some extra treats for sharing for morning tea! It was a busy weekend and the track leading to the beach was littered with 4WD enthusiasts as varied in stature as the vehicles they were driving. After airing down, the crew set off – Sea

Attending Shane & Emily - Mitsi Triton Jon - Mitsi Pajero Sport FIFO life can be a little restricting sometimes especially when it comes to recreational 4wdriving so when the urge itches and break time is right an impromptu trip is on the cards. After a call to the trip coordinator, a last minute email it was great to get a reply from Jon to say “let’s go”. BP Muchea was the meetpoint midday Sunday and I was stoked to see Jon and his decked out mitsi paj sports ready to ta

Participants Penny & Spence FJ 40 Toyota Landcruiser (Amber) Cindy & Dave Toyota Prado Ivo & Lucy 76 series Toyota Landcruiser Lee & Keely 80 series Toyota Landcruiser Stuart & Michelle Mitsubishi Pajero Peter & Malou 76 Series Toyota Landcruiser Gary, Claire, Gabriel & Azriel 80 series Toyota Landcruiser Deb & Sean Triton (Luke & Lulu) Craig & Justine BT50 (Angus) Simon, Diane & Jacob Triton Trent Land-drover Discovery Tony & Anna Ford Ranger Richard & Naomi Mitsubishi Pajer

Attendees: Naomi & Richard, Tony, Alex, Dave & Cindy, Keith, Matt, Lee, Penny, Lin, James, Jane & Don, Wilco, Peter, Graham & Monica, Alana When reviewing memberships, we saw that over 70% of members either had never completed the couse or had done some time ago and it was no longer current. The committee decided this as an opportunity of offer first aid training to members. It was treated as a trip and run on a weekend so as many members as possible could attend. With eve

Friday – Monday 5-8 th August 2022 Attendees: Richard & Naomi – Pajero (Trip Leader) Keith & Kirk - Ranger Tony & Anna – Ranger Burgo & Susan - Landcruiser Graham & Monica – Patrol After the feedback on how well the Koorda weekend went in 21 it was decided to run a similar trip in 22, but make it a four-day affair. As it was planned to be a fairly flexible touring type trip, I gave out all the details of where we planned to camp each night, that way people could join us (or

11th December 2022 Attendees: Naomi & Richard, Matt, Alex, Dave & Cindy, Lee & Keely, Penny, Spence & Pam, Lin, James & Izzy, Sue & Steve, Tony & Anna, Gary, Claire, Gabriel & Azriel, Ivo & Lucy, Peter & Malou, Phil & Mirka, Podge (visitor), Don & Jane, Michelle, Keegan & Hamish, Keith & Cathy, Rob Richard and I arrived at Whiteman Park early, hoping to guarantee the spot we wanted. It amazes me how many people are there as the park opens – either early to picnic, riding bik

December 2022 Attending in no particular order Alex and Dave - Toyota LC (TL) Sean - Triton (TEC) Rob - Suzi Wilco and Don - Toyota 470 Ivo - Shorty With glorious morning weather of blue sky and hazy sun, it made for a perfect start heading out to meet the fellow club members at our meeting point in Harvey. The plan, not that we had firm one, was to re explore some of the tracks previously visited by Dave F. some years before. After airing down, we set off along a little tra

Mandurah Canal, December 2022 Vessel Stingray Sean (Skipper) Deb Brandon Keith Kathy Kirk Steve Sue Vessel Eagleray Craig (Skipper) Justine Lin Wayne Shane Emily Cindy Dave I think this is the Club's first ever social trip that involved using canal boats, motoring through the canals and exploring the Christmas Lights at night. The trip was a success, everyone really enjoyed the trip, so much so, I think I will run it again next year. Wow, I think there were other events ha

Back story (AKA Murchison House Station 2021): Initially the first club visit to MHS had been booked by Penny for late April last year (2021), however the arrival of cyclone Seroja tearing through part of Western Australia’s Mid West in April required this trip to be postponed. A new date was set for September, with Penny planning to rebook after returning from Shane’s Karijini trip. While Penny was away, an inquiry was made to MHS that revealed the homestead camping area was

Saturday 26 th November 2022 Attendees: Tony & Burgo – Ranger (Trip Leader) Richard – Pajero Rob – Vitara Keith and Kirk - Ranger Penny and Spence – FJ James – BT50 (Visitor) Ki – LC 80 Series Simon – Patrol (Visitor) Jeff - LC 79 Series Derek – Hilux (Visitor) We all met at Centre Way, and Gnangara Road. It was meant to be 8:30 for 9:00am start, but we were all there by 8:30. So after the introductions & preamble stuff (including at least one dad joke) we aired down and

August 2022 Attending in no particular order Penny and Spence - Toyota LC 76 Ivo - Toyota LC 76 Lin - Toyota LC FJ Shane and Emily -Toyota LC Triton Dave - Toyota LC Prado Peter and Malou - Toyota LC 76 Keith - Toyota LC Ranger Alex - Toyota LC 79 The meeting point for this awesome trip was at The Lakes Roadhouse. Funny enough, the 2 non Toyota members had planned to meet up with us on the road, we had a guy in a Land Rover think we were a Landcruiser Club. Right, we are on t

Attending Dave F - Prado and camper (TL) Simon and Diane - Triton and camper Shane - Triton Lin - FJ (TEC) The first half of the day was rain and no blue sky. After making a few phone calls to confirm if everyone was still happy to proceed, we all met up at The Lakes, had our little chat and briefing before heading off. While driving to our meeting point, it was great to see a blue sky with a pinch of rain cloud, this was a complete opposite to the first half of the day. W

Participants Don & Jane GU Nissan Patrol (trip leader) Rob Toyota Prado Simon & Diane Land rover Derek & Leanne Hilux (guests) Joel & Taylor Suzuki Serria Alek GQ Patrol (guest) Roger 76 Land Cruiser (tail) Planned by Joel and recci by Joel, Don, Jane and Roger, this trip was rated at a 4 and it lived up to our expectations. I was a little bit concerned that we had 3 new guests and two vehicles coming and I hoped that they would be ok and not be put off by the drive. We left

What an awesome trip! So many fantastic memories. 7000 kms, much of it offroad, 21 nights. Here are a few of my personal recollections: From our first night at Widgiemooltha Tavern not getting much sleep due to all the roadtrains passing in the night. Waking up to my tent flapping open with the rain coming in. Googs track from Ceduna to Mt. Finke was one of my favourite tracks with lots of windy, soft, sand dunes and a nice lunch spot at the lake. Coober Pedy was interesting

List of attendees. Simon and Jacob - Perentie, Richard and Naomi - Pajero, Matt - Pajero, Jeff and Tegan - 79 series (visitors), Phil -76 series, Gary and family - 80 series, Lin - FJ Cruiser. As per the previous trip we day started at the BP truck stop, Muchea at 8.30am. The front car park was a bit full so we decided to move to the back of the servo where there was ample room for everyone. With coffee in hand we discussed what we were going to do which didn’t take long as I

Participants Donald & Jane GU Nissan Patrol (Trip Leader) Hannah GU Nissan Patrol Simon Land Rover Perentie Jeff & Teagan 79 single cab Landcruiser (visitors) Wilco Lexus Roger 76 Landcruiser (Tail) Working together to create a new track This trip was the creation of a number of people: Roger and Sean had come across this interesting looking up hill track. Joel followed up on the idea, plotted a route and ran a trip. Jane and I did a further drive to check the route and