4 July 2010 : Club mail system is now back in working order

Keith Cornell's photos are crackers - so many to choose from!

Leonard powers (hah!) through the top water trough near the start

The video documentary (!) can be found on UChoob:  here

Thanks Keith!

A couple of snaps from the Pig Farm - tremendous fun was had by all. Keith Cornell will be sending us more action photos very soon...

[Ray looking very shiny at the beginning... (ask him how it looked at the end!]

Bill landed me with these photos of the Planting Day - he sends his regards to all :)

This next one is a special for Bill - he sat next to a Kiwifruit farmer's daughter on the flight over - and then actually got to handle his favourite fruit in NZ!

Eight of the fourteen vehicles booked on trip met at the BP in Papakura at 8.00am on Wednesday 31st March in preparation for the drive to wellington.  The rest were going to meet us on the way at various points.

Te Rau Puriri - 30 km up on South Head Road - Sunday 18 April and a host of Willing Workers manage to beat all the odds and plant 4,000 treelings in just 4 hours!

You'll hear more about the road trips, the off-roading and The Ayslum very soon no doubt..

Thanks to Horse for arranging the whole thing.

Meantime here are a few highlight photos of the the trip.

Willis St, Wellington at 7am: Ready for the ferry

Contrary to all expectations, only 6 raindrops fell on the asembled host of Land Rovers and Guest vehicles at our annual Training Day!

[Horse gets down to earth with a D3 to secure a strap (with style...]

Hamish has re-lived the exciting events from the Night Run  and sends us this report...

[ Hamish's vehicle on the operating table...]