ride4acure

I left Boree Creek just before 8.30am and it was freezing cold then and didn’t warm up at all today and it was so windy. I swear it was like 6 degrees! I was rugged up and still cold. No doubt about it on a horse all day there is no getting out of the weather.

Yesterday I visited Lockhart Primary and High schools and gave two “Mela-What?” presentations. The students in both groups were fantastic and very engaging. I feel so privileged having the opportunity to meet so many awesome young people and share ‘Mela-What?” I really appreciate the feedback that comes through from students and teachers, certainly inspires me to keep putting one foot in front of the other with skin cancer and melanoma awareness.

Unfortunately when I got home from the schools I had to nail a hind shoe back on Meg, she had lost it in the red mud! It took me half an hour to put the one shoe on! I’m certainly not going to take up a career as a farrier any time soon! Diana and Michael from Clarkes Horseshoes in Wingham have been supporting me with horse shoes and ‘road nails’ for my crew and have very generously found farriers for me along the way. We’re busy trying to tee someone up for the next few days to reshoe the whole crew. Have had a good run out of this set (over three weeks! Compared to 12-14 days when I was riding on bitumen) I have been able to get off the road more and ride on soil as I’ve come through the central West and into the Riverina.

Today I rode over my first ‘clay pans’ in 18 years! Bringing back a lot of memories for me riding through this country.

I am staying in a Bed and Breakfast cottage in Urana that was kindly donated to ride4acure for the night. Pat from Urana and Boree Creek ‘ Ag and Vet’ organised this for me and also tomorrow night’s accommodation at Oaklands Hotel. Then on Saturday I’m riding on to Berrigan where I have a place oranised for me through one of the people connected to the ‘Tuppal Station’ shearing exhibition.

I had a radio interview this afternoon with Fiona Wiley on the Afternoon Show on NSW ABC radio. I had been riding along and simply pulled up for ten minutes while I did the interview. I had just finished the interview and was riding along the roadside and a whopping great hare jumped right in front of Meg, Wrangler and Billy and they all had a ‘kafuffle’ over it, lucky it didn’t happen while I was on the radio! Things just might have got ugly!

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