{"id":1341,"date":"2011-06-28T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2011-06-28T23:18:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:18:04","slug":"day-58-ceduna-tuesday-28th-june-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Day 58 Ceduna Tuesday 28th June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daylight will see Esther riding Titan from Ceduna Racecourse through the main street alongside the magnificent waters of the Great Australian Bight! On our way across the Nullabor. \u00a0we’ll be camping at Penong tomorrow night, the horses will be yarded at ‘Heaven’ just on the Western side of Penong and we’ll be having dinner at the Penong Pub and meeting up with some locals. \u00a0 Ceduna is an amazing little town (approximately 3 000 people in area) with brilliant facilities. \u00a0Exceptionally clean and bright CBD area.<\/p>\n

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Ceduna Beachfront, sunset dinner for ride4acure crew.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday Esther, Joe and I visited both schools in town Ceduna Area school which caters from Kindy to Year 12, and also the Crossways Lutheran Central School which caters from Kindy to Year 10. \u00a0Great groups of students who were very engaged with ‘Mela-What?’ One of the questions I put to the student groups at every venue I go to is ‘Hands up if you’ve learnt something new today?’ and always most hands are held up- I then invite the young people to share what they’ve learnt with one other person to help us ‘put melanoma on the map’. \u00a0 Also on Sunday had lunch here with the Far West Pony Club who put on a delicious BBQ lunch for us. \u00a0In SA pony clubs are made up of both kids, young adults and mature aged riders. \u00a0There is no upper age limit to riders! \u00a0NSW you can only ride til your 25 .<\/p>\n

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A couple of the Ceduna POny Clubs youngest members, with ride4acure crew and Hotondo Hugo<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re also putting ‘webisodes’ of the trek on www.horsetalktv.com.au<\/a> and Horsetalk (on pay TV) are also putting together coverage of the trek that will air later in the year.<\/p>\n

Big news is our NSW chaff and Hosilage sponsor David Wallis from Manuka Chaff Quirindi NSW very generously secured us sponsorship for our WA leg of the trek. \u00a0Quarintine regulations prevent us taking into WA any lucerne based products. \u00a0David secured sponsorship for us and also organised the transport of three pallett loads of chaff and hay to the SA\/WA border for us to pick up when we cross. \u00a0We are so grateful for his help with this. \u00a0David has been incredible all the way from the first instance we approached him for sponsorship back in February I think. \u00a024 hours after my first phone call we had a pallet of his wonderful Manuka chaff and horsilage delivered to Coffs Harbour for Esther when she was there. \u00a0And he’s been consistantly excellent all the way through. \u00a0We’re indebted to Manuka for the amazing support we’ve received. \u00a0Couldn’t have done it without them. \u00a0A beautiful little gem out of this is the WA hay company WesternHay www.westernhay.com.au <\/a> is that Richard Rose the proprietor and his wife have a 7 month old baby daughter called Hannah Rose. \u00a0this is the second 7 month old baby girl we’ve met along the trek who is called Hannah Rose and also both little girls are daughters of lucerne producers!!!<\/p>\n

We’ve had since Saturday here in Ceduna, four whole days supposedly ‘rest days’. We’ve decided that’s a complete misconception and if we’re ever crazy enough to do another trek in the future be called ‘busy days’ because they’re chocka block full of jobs! One of the worst is washing clothes!<\/p>\n

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Drying washing at Ceduna racetrack! <\/p><\/div>\n

Having said that we’ve managed a couple of waterfront artery clogging dinners! Joe got a fish in today on the long wharf at Ceduna and managed to catch a shopping trolley!<\/p>\n

This morning at 7 am we had Shane Doudal come and do a quick farriering job for us with Meg (she’d lost the tungstan plug out of her horseshoe. \u00a0the plugs are quadrupling the life of the shoes for us which is awesome, but it’s a technical job to get them in securely! Beyond my simple skills. \u00a0Anyway there isn’t actually a farrier in Ceduna, nearest one is Streaky Bay. \u00a0Shane works out in a mine on the Nullabor but happened to be home \u00a0on his days off and volunteered to come shoe Meg before he had to fly back to the mine site! \u00a0 Lucky us! We keep meeting fantastic people who step up to support the trek.<\/p>\n

the horses have enjoyed having four straight days rest. \u00a0They’re fresh and fighting fit again. \u00a0On Sunday each horse got a good wash, and also heaps of gear like saddle blankets, sheep skins, bell boots! We’re grateful to have the water here to do that as we’ll now be on severe rations as we head into bore water country. \u00a0Most of the roadhouses\u00a0apparently\u00a0have their own desalination plants for the bore water. \u00a0Just hope our horses will drink it! \u00a0We have some ripper ‘tablets’ that will neutralise the water donated by Olsonns stock feed supplements. \u00a0Touch wood they’ll mask the flavour enough for the horses to drink it.<\/p>\n

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Surprise before his wash!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n

Titan after his shampoo looking very dapper!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

We will be less regular with website updates and blogging as we’re going out of range for a few weeks, however will be able to post updates at a couple of the roadhouses! So my apologies in advance. \u00a0I will endevour to do my best with capturing this epic part of the trek as Esther rides across the iconic Nullabor Plains. \u00a0Truly we’re going into the ‘big empty’ for a while and the three of us feel okay about that. \u00a0We’ll keep safe and continue the Journey.<\/p>\n

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