Rotten Returns.
I noticed that on Saturday the Red Bull Billy Cart Race was on in Melbourne. This is only the third time it has been held in Australia and the second time in Melbourne. What many of our current members may not know is that our club participated in that historic first race in 2004.
Our entrant was a paper mache shark built on a frame of two old bikes welded together by PP Graeme Aberline with the driver sitting in the shark's mouth. It was driven by our Brazilian exchange student and Ayrton Senna lookalike, Caio, who crashed out in the first round. Not sure if we remembered to put brakes on the shark though.
The shark was transported to Melbourne in the back of my work van where five Warrnambool Central Rotarians and partners gathered for an enjoyable outing in Fitzroy. The preceding night we invaded a Vietnamese restaurant in Richmond where our Brazilian driver worked his magic with a nearby table of attractive girls. Somebody should have remembered to put brakes on the Brazilian!
I can't find any photos of the weekend but I know Bore' produced a cartoon of the famous shark. Maybe he can find it and re-publish it as a reminder.
Also on Saturday the rodeo returned to Warrnambool at the Showgrounds. This brought back memories of when our club ran the rodeo at the old trotting track for a couple of years. Miss Rodeo Australia from Cloncurry in Qld was in attendance one year and stayed at our place. A lot of work went into this event and I seem to remember a paper mache bull leading the charge thru the streets of Warrnambool. A lot of work also went into Miss Rodeo by one of our single members without success.
A couple more chapters for our potential book.
