{"id":1396,"date":"2011-08-04T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2011-08-04T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:22:02","slug":"indian-ocean-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Indian Ocean here we come…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 1 Beginning in Pacific Ocean Crescent Head on Hannah's 23rd Birthday...<\/p><\/div>\n

Leaving the Pacific Ocean behind to begin this epic journey feels both like a blink of the eye and a long time…with so many steps between. \u00a0Here Esther is now with only one more riding day in Perth to the finale of the 2011 Coast2Coast Horse Trek at Cottlesloe on Saturday 6th August. 97 days of feeding, caring for, saddling up, unsaddling and comforting the horses. 97 days of compromising and working with both Esther and Joe so that we were able to achieve this together. 97 days of things going to plan and 97 days of things not going to plan-and dealing with it calmly. And here we are a days ride to the finale. \u00a0My mind turns to Esther and my witnessing of her efforts over the months. \u00a0 My heart is bursting with pride and respect for this young woman. \u00a0Day after grinding day she’s got up and pulled her boots on and mounted up again to fulfill her dream to ride Coast2Coast to ‘put melanoma on the map’. \u00a0This has happened. Many thousands of young people now understand a little more about melanaoma and what they can do to prevent it. What they don’t know is the absolute courage, grit and determination that has motivated Esther daily to do this. \u00a0To borrow from Ghandi, ‘to be the change you want to see in he world’. \u00a0Esther is living this.<\/p>\n

Coupled with the finale of this ride is the milestone for Esther of turning 21. That this epic ride bookends<\/em> her childhood and adolescence is profound. \u00a0Never in a million years would Esther have thought back when she was 18 that she’d be 21 without Hannah in her life. Hannah and Esther were like two sides of the same coin. They shared deeply so many things in their lives, a deep passion for horses and livestock….thousands of hours spent talking about horses and supporting each other to achieve their dreams in rodeo, campdrafting and eventing….never thinking that would change. \u00a0Hannah \u00a0back in September 2008,\u00a0having a couple of days between treatments- leaving hospital in Sydney \u00a0in the middle of another cycle of surgery and radiation to travel all the way to Nana Glen to watch Esther compete in the Zone\u00a09 One Day Event Championship on her good mare ‘Diva’ and the delight when Esther took the A Grade trophy home for a 2nd year in a row. These were the things we thought we’d have for life….never dreaming of Esther turning 21 and being older than Hannah… for life….how does one be older than your older sister?<\/p>\n

Our focus turns now to these last few days. \u00a0We have family flying in tonight to be here to witness their niece and cousin complete this epic horse trek from Coast2Coast. \u00a0Generous people we’ve met along the way coming also to Perth to see Esther ride in and of course one of our major sponsors, David Wallis from Manuka Chaff in Quirindi NSW who has flown to Perth to be here too.<\/p>\n

An event like this is only possible because many generous people have worked together to bring it to life. And of course our amazing horses, daily they’ve said ‘yes’ to doing the miles, \u00a0us human family working\u00a0together to \u00a0bring this dream alive, all the good people who have generously given to provide the resources to make this ride possible from the very beginning and also along the way, the media who have helped spread the word, the good people following via this website, facebook and twitter…we thank you. Today finally after a week of stormy, windy weather \u00a0is a beautiful sunny day and we have much work to do…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaving the Pacific Ocean behind to begin this epic journey feels both like a blink of the eye and a long time…with so many steps between. \u00a0Here Esther is now with only one more riding day in Perth to the finale of the 2011 Coast2Coast Horse Trek at Cottlesloe on Saturday 6th August. 97 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}