Tales from the Quim

This weekend a few of us headed to Levuka once again to run some tracks and see just how cold it gets, Guru had missed the last trip and being the Champion Monkey of the Brass, an excursion was required to lock in Levuka as the location of Brass Monkey III, to be held in the last week of July. (Yes you heard it here first).

We were on the Mt Lindesay highway by 8am and arrived at Levuka around 10am, it was a good run being so early on Saturday. There was probably 5 other groups there and we quickly found a campsite and unloaded all our stuff and headed out to try some tracks. It had not rained much recently, so unlike our last trip the tracks were mostly easy.

The bullant track was attempted by Guru and he met the same fate as ironpaw on our last trip, we also did this unnamed gully, ironpaw only just made it up with some herbs but guru and myself who only have mud tyres were not so lucky and ended up sliding back into the gully.

The gully wouldn’t have been so bad except for the lack of track so having more than one or two attempts was really just dicing with a more difficult recovery and probably some panel damage. I should really get some recovery points on the front of my truck so we can do this again. Ironpaw’s winch passed the test dragging Guru’s MQ and my family wagon out.

A good sign of the lack of rain was the consistency of the mud in the mud pit, somewhat to ironpaws demise.

The scenery was nice, and the cows were happy.

They supply plenty of firewood at Levuka, a welcome change after camping on Fraser.

It was not so cold, and there was a good view sleeping in an open swag under the stars.

Ironpaw has photos HERE and I have some HERE.

Mungas photos are now HERE!

115mb Video is HERE