ride4acure

Hotondo Hugo crosses the Murrumbidgee River at Maude NSW

Here we are now only two days out of Victoria. A month into this thing and going strong.  Esther and Horse Crew are chewing up the kilometres.  It’s been fantastic to re-visit my old home area in the riverina.  so many of the roads Esther’s ridden down I’d walked cattle and sheep on twenty odd years ago.  Not much has changed!  I’ve never seen this country look as good as it does.  Amazing amount of rain about and knee high feed.

Lower Murrumbidgee Floodplains in 'Torry Plains'

Esther has been riding for days across very flat, empty country.

Esther on 'Titan' at the Eastern Boundary of 'Torry Plains' with Hugo!

Been challenging on so many levels.  Great to catch up with many people I’d known twenty years ago.  Had a fundraiser BBQ at Maude Pub on Monday night and raised over $800 dollars. Had a very impromptu night tonight at the Shamrock Hotel having gone down there for dinner on the invite from one of the teachers and we had the best meal.  Whilst at Dinner met ‘Big Al’ who has generously offered to give the truck a grease at 7.30am and him and his family have put us in touch with a few contacts for the Nullabor and Kalgoorlie.

For those that have just joined the ride4acure horse trek blog we have a little companion called ‘Hotondo Hugo’ who’se travelling with us, he actually rides on the dashboard of the truck so he can see everything first!  Every time I photograph Hugo and send it to Hotondo homes they make a donation to the Hannah Rose Melanoma Research Fund!

Hugo at 'Hells Gate' on Sturt Highway 85kms west of Hay today.

Today Hugo had a good look about at the ramp into ‘Hells Gate’ (which is a station I used to drove livestock for back in the 80’s).  We’re heading to Euston tomorrow an 80km ride for Esther.  Lofty is still a bit sore and ishaving a further few days recovery whilst Meg and Titan are doing the work!

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