Exceed Jul/Aug 2020 - 4WD Club Magazine Volume #37 Issue #4 | Page 42

TRIP REPORTS Blow Out The Cobwebs – Wyperfeld Explorer Queen’s Birthday Weekend – 5th to 8 th June 2020 Participants Member Vehicle Details No. Barry Walker TL 652 Patrol GU Fred Farrugia 433 Peter& Sue Thomas 199 Patrol GU Peter & Wendy Watkins 1926 Pajero Wayne Matheson 1924 Pajero James Cook & Charlie 1855 Pajero Sport Simon Garraway 799 Patrol GQ Rod Chapple 1814 Pajero Roger Shephard 1938 Pajero Friday 5 th June Well we were finally allowed to travel around the state and use the State and National parks after the Covid-19 lock down. Some of the parks had facilities that were open and some were not open yet. Checked the website and found that the Wyperfeld National Park camping areas were open but restricted to small group camping, max 20 people per group. We can do that I thought. arrangements. Four decided to come on the Friday and the rest were to come up on the Saturday with Peter Thomas. So, I decided that I might run a trip up to the park as it may be warmer up there than in Melbourne. So for the first time I had a go at posting a trip on Wild Apricot. As the first time it turned out to be not too hard. So if you are thinking of running a trip, give it a go. If you run into trouble, give Ed a call and he will help you out. The trip was posted and filled in about 3 hours. So looks like there are plenty of club members ready to get out there and go camping and have fun. It looked like I was running the trip. No turning back now. Thinking it may be a busy weekend, I decided that I would go up to Wyperfeld on the Friday. So sent an email to the members that had booked in explaining the The group at Wyperfeld camping area. I looked through my pile of maps and to my surprise I did not seem to have a map of the Wyperfeld National Park area, so off to Aussie Disposals to get a map. After moving through the crowds, I found the map, got the club discount and went home to plan the trip. As it