Ark! Polly-Wanna-NONT
2004
Anstey had two cars in NONT this year Barg and Simon in the Datsun and Michael, Brendan and Minky in Michael’s car which slowly rattled apart. The starting point was at Munno Para shopping Centre and went northish and finished at Gawler Scout Hall where we had to look for treasure.
We all dressed as a crew of pirates more or less with matching Anstey bandannas and belt and fuzzy green eye patches, I even had a pet penguin on my shoulder. Before the night we got together one night to also go through my collection of Pirate Lego which makes me still think we should have a Rover Lego night. We managed to scrape together most of the bonus items down to a message in a bottle from Michael phone.
Although we (in Michael’s car) started 15th we got to the first activity at the St Kilda pirate ship 3rd (without speeding!) and rummaged through the ship for “stuff”. Other activities along the way involved making a chocolate toasted sandwich (????), throwing a stuffed crocodile the furthest which Simon apparently did extremely well at, shooting pirates which were all but lying down anyway. In the second half we made a pirate hat out of newspaper and skulled red cordial at a cemetery (which I threw up!). The food at the halfway point wasn’t overly appetising but more so than the toasted sandwiches. Navigating was “relatively” easy with only one section being a bit iffy but “allegedly” if you zoom in on the map the directions were correct….
In the end the two crew cars came 3rd and 11th out of 16 cars which wasn’t too bad.
Anstey had two cars in NONT this year Barg and Simon in the Datsun and Michael, Brendan and Minky in Michael’s car which slowly rattled apart. The starting point was at Munno Para shopping Centre and went northish and finished at Gawler Scout Hall where we had to look for treasure.
We all dressed as a crew of pirates more or less with matching Anstey bandannas and belt and fuzzy green eye patches, I even had a pet penguin on my shoulder. Before the night we got together one night to also go through my collection of Pirate Lego which makes me still think we should have a Rover Lego night. We managed to scrape together most of the bonus items down to a message in a bottle from Michael phone.
Although we (in Michael’s car) started 15th we got to the first activity at the St Kilda pirate ship 3rd (without speeding!) and rummaged through the ship for “stuff”. Other activities along the way involved making a chocolate toasted sandwich (????), throwing a stuffed crocodile the furthest which Simon apparently did extremely well at, shooting pirates which were all but lying down anyway. In the second half we made a pirate hat out of newspaper and skulled red cordial at a cemetery (which I threw up!). The food at the halfway point wasn’t overly appetising but more so than the toasted sandwiches. Navigating was “relatively” easy with only one section being a bit iffy but “allegedly” if you zoom in on the map the directions were correct….
In the end the two crew cars came 3rd and 11th out of 16 cars which wasn’t too bad.
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