ride4acure

Murrabit is a great little community along the Murray River above Cohuna. This is country that Hannah and Esther’s Dad, Lindsay Matthews was born in and raised and he has plenty of family still farming in this district. I am staying on the Danson’s farm where Lindsay’s Aunt Jean who is 96 still lives. Her two sons John and Jimmie farm here with their families.  It is awesome to be here. I travelled by ute to two schools today at both Murrabit and Kerang.  When  I was visiting the Murrabit school this morning and happened to eye an old yearbook from 1971 and was delighted to see a photo of Lindsay in there from his year 4 grade photo.  Murrabit school has approx 23 students at present.

I then went over to Kerang to St Joseph’s Primary and presented “Mela-What?” to over 100 students. Students at both schools were so enthusiastic about the ride and melanoma as a young persons disease. It amazes me the very astute questions that arise. Kids asking about intensity of UV radiation in water?  At Berrigan the other day at the Public School a teacher told me that one of her students had in a lesson about oxymorons where the students were giving examples said that a ‘healthy tan’ was an oxymoron because there is no such thing as that because having a tan is damaging to our skin! Out of the mouths of babes eh.

Tomorrow I am driving to Boort to present at the Boort Secondary College to a small group of high school students as most of the school is away on excursions and work experience. I am riding out of Murrabit on Wednesday morning riding 40kms for the day to Dingwall which is 15kms the SW side of Kerang on the Boort Road. I am hoping to ride my horses to the St Joseph’s school in Kerang at 1pm to show the kids my crew! All going well. Have asked the students to bring some carrots and apples in for the horses. After the school I will ride a further 15kms out of town to Dingwall where I’ll be staying the night with a family there, then heading off first thing Thursday morning for Boort.

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