June 2019
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Thursday 9 May 2019
From..Roger Polkinghorne
he forecast was for a cold and wet
day…. and it was. The temperature
struggled to get to 13 degrees and the
windscreen wipers were on all day. De-
spite the weather, 20 lunch runners met
at the Tea Tree Gully Hotel for morning
tea and a briefing of the chosen route to
Angaston. Needless to say everybody
was in a ‘plastic’.
We were met at Angaston by Brian and
Kath Golding in their recently acquired
MGTF. A stunning bark blue car with
contrasting bone interior and complete
with hard top. Clearly the best looking
and only sports car in the car park.
The SA Company Store on the outskirts
of Angaston provided us with a great
lunch venue with views over the vine-
yards to the hills beyond. A special
menu had been prepared which pro-
vided an excellent selection of main
courses and desserts. It’s not the first
time we have visited the venue and I’m
sure it won’t be the last given the way
they look after us.
Our destination took us through Kers-
brook, Williamstown, Springton and
Eden Valley. The countryside is still very
brown but it will soon be green again
after such a wet day. The drive was one
of the longest for the year but there was
very little traffic and we were on some of Thanks to everyone who came and sup-
the best driving roads in South Australia. ported the run.
The South Para Reservoir is as dry as I
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have ever seen it and is now little more
than a dry creek.
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