Nont 2005
This years NONT was all Aussie adNONTures run by Lones Rovers, starting at Hollywood plaza in sailsbury and featuring the area around Gawler, Mallala, Port Gawler, Riverton and Angle Vale. There were a total of 9 cars in the event; Aesir, Anstey, Blackburn, two from Crew 64 and four from Pine Forest.
Anstey originally was going to have 2 cars but this dwindled down to one car with Michael driving, myself and two prospective members, Matt Sawyers and Zaho – a Chinese exchange student. Although we didn’t put much effort into going in theme we did manage to get all of the bonus items on the list including modified condoms as quandongs and a cutout of Russell Coight as big as the word life, making it life size.
For some suspect reason we started second rather than first as we were drawn and Matt soon showed his value as an expert Morse code decoder to work out the first section of the course. All of the mapping was more or less straight forward, there were a couple of tricky bits but we sorted them all out eventually. Unfortunately however we did get a little bit lost on the second stage and once we found ourselves back on track we realized we’d been off the map which is why it was so hard to workout where we were.
The activities in the first half included sheaf tossing for which Zhao threw a phenomenal 18 meters, fishing with Peter Hann for magnetic fish for which we got 27 out of a possible 60, campcraft gadget construction for which we build a kickass cow which held a dryzabone and hat and was so well trained it demonstrated how it could sit, a first aid activity (with an indepth discussion on breeding programs of the threatened yellow flashing whatsit…) and lastly a Morse code activity with Brownie. The halfway point wasn’t too bad, at least the food was much better than last year’s and everyone kept trying to feed us and it was also pretty cozy (despite being told I looked like a drunk bum when I had my gaurana hit). The second half included a sheep collecting (herding) activity, a very poor effort at line dancing and being crammed into a very smelly outback dunny for a minute. We then finished off at Angle Vale Scout Hall being the second car back at 4am ish followed by Blackburn.
All in all we had a pretty good time, Michael and I both enjoyed this years one more that last years, there were more and possibly better activities, the observations and caution signs all had reflective tape on them making them really easy to spot and we had plenty of bribes for every checkpoint ranging from snickers bars, strawberry and creams, Chilli Tim Tams and sticky buns. Even though the puzzle bits we collected over the night said bribery gets you nowhere, I think it was still worth it. Lones did a really great job of organizing the night, now we just have to wait to see how we went….
Anstey originally was going to have 2 cars but this dwindled down to one car with Michael driving, myself and two prospective members, Matt Sawyers and Zaho – a Chinese exchange student. Although we didn’t put much effort into going in theme we did manage to get all of the bonus items on the list including modified condoms as quandongs and a cutout of Russell Coight as big as the word life, making it life size.
For some suspect reason we started second rather than first as we were drawn and Matt soon showed his value as an expert Morse code decoder to work out the first section of the course. All of the mapping was more or less straight forward, there were a couple of tricky bits but we sorted them all out eventually. Unfortunately however we did get a little bit lost on the second stage and once we found ourselves back on track we realized we’d been off the map which is why it was so hard to workout where we were.
The activities in the first half included sheaf tossing for which Zhao threw a phenomenal 18 meters, fishing with Peter Hann for magnetic fish for which we got 27 out of a possible 60, campcraft gadget construction for which we build a kickass cow which held a dryzabone and hat and was so well trained it demonstrated how it could sit, a first aid activity (with an indepth discussion on breeding programs of the threatened yellow flashing whatsit…) and lastly a Morse code activity with Brownie. The halfway point wasn’t too bad, at least the food was much better than last year’s and everyone kept trying to feed us and it was also pretty cozy (despite being told I looked like a drunk bum when I had my gaurana hit). The second half included a sheep collecting (herding) activity, a very poor effort at line dancing and being crammed into a very smelly outback dunny for a minute. We then finished off at Angle Vale Scout Hall being the second car back at 4am ish followed by Blackburn.
All in all we had a pretty good time, Michael and I both enjoyed this years one more that last years, there were more and possibly better activities, the observations and caution signs all had reflective tape on them making them really easy to spot and we had plenty of bribes for every checkpoint ranging from snickers bars, strawberry and creams, Chilli Tim Tams and sticky buns. Even though the puzzle bits we collected over the night said bribery gets you nowhere, I think it was still worth it. Lones did a really great job of organizing the night, now we just have to wait to see how we went….
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