There was plenty of variety in the day, the 57th day of the GARR. The
day started interestingly. One of the members of the cabin in which
the male members of the support team were sleeping complained of
difficulty in going to sleep because of the general level of noise in
the cabin. We did not complain to the management about this matter as
we did not think that it was the fault of the cabin!
The caravan park had a peacock as a resident who wandered the grounds
of the park in a regal manner. We took a photo of the magnificent bird
perched on the handrail of the verandah of our cabin. The animal was
very used to humans moving about and would remain perched even when we
moved quite close to him. There were some other exotic residents of
the park as well. These were visitors in the form of a group of
ferrets well attached to leads held by their owners who were staying
in the caravan park. We have a photo of them as well We did not
introduce the peacock to the ferrets. One of our number commented that
the ferrets when they moved along the ground were like fluid.
Upon leaving the park to rendezvous with the riders for the day, we
encountered two delays both generated by a desire to take a photo. One
photo was of what looked like a juvenile rickshaw, the result of a
union between a male and female rickshaw. A photo of the juvenile
rickshaw can be seen in one of the photos for the day. It was seen
sprinting down a road in Wangaratta. The second delay was to take
photo of a 55 BelAir Chevrolet. For those who are aficionados of
American cars, then this is a beauty. It was owned by a young man who
worked in panel beating establishment. Great car.
Now back to the GARR.
Our rickshaw riding began in Violet Town. One can never accuse the
town of lacking in colour! There we met the two riders, Len and Daryl.
They were transported to the starting point by Len's wife, Judy. ( A
point of joy for Judy was that she was celebrating being cleared of
cancer for 5 years. She did this celebrating by buying and eating some
vanilla slice purchased in Violet Town.) Well, Len also broke another
record for us. He, by the effort of his parents no real credit to Len,
achieved the record of being the oldest rider on the GARR. Len is 74.
He and Daryl, no spring chicken himself, rode very well and covered
the distance from Violet Town to Euroa in record time for the GARR. Of
course no-one else has ridden a rickshaw from Violet Town to Euroa
anyway so it would have been a record even if they had taken a month!
But that aside, these two dedicated pedallers covered the distance
impressively. Their progress was halted a couple of times. At least
one of these times was due to a desire of the rickshaw to move to the
left and in the early part of the journey took Len and Daryl off into
the roadside grass! The other time was for repairs as one of the
wheels broke a spoke and began to spin in a slightly drunken fashion.
Photos of the highway side repairs can be seen on today's photos.
Ultimately the repairs were not effective and we had to swap
rickshaws. The journey was completed on our reserve machine.
We had Councillor Mark Williams greet the rickshaw Euroa. Thank you
for your time and friendly welcome Councillor. Photos are also attached.
The evening was spent with a group from St Paul's Anglican, Euroa.
They provided us with a great meal in their wonderful old hall with a
roaring wood fire and we told them of the ride and the work of
Symbiosis. Thanks Lyn and rector Patti for arranging that. End of a
busy day.
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