Recent Big Events

Camel Cup; We went into the camel cup pretty excited about the whole thing, I mean, how often do you have an opportunity to see something like that?! To say that we were most excited about the bucket we got as a door prize would be an exaggeration but not a big one. The camel races were awesome, don't get me wrong, they start lying down and have to race around a track, a lot of camels pull up fast, walk the whole way, leave behind riders and all sorts so it's a fun race to watch. The problem is they are few and far between and the thing lasts all day. We spent a good part of our time there on our other favorite sport 'people watching'. As to the bucket it has become a coveted possesion serving as a great container, a stool, a chair, a wash bucket etc.

Stockmans Challenge; the challenge was really interesting and a lot of fun, it was also the same two activities for four straight days. Seeing all the different horses compete in the same thing, often with the same riders was sometimes amusing but we enjoyed it, and the fact that it was free entertainment we could come and go from at our leisure.

Quamby Rodeo; was more along the lines of something we knew and recognized, there was all sorts of events and we understood most of them. It's not a pro rodeo and some of the things that went on were a bit sketchy but entertaining none the less. We had a great time hanging out with our wwoof hosts, meeting new people (Erika especially, our hosts are still making fun of her for meeting some guy named 'Tom the Pom' (POM being a term for English people) they thought it was especially funny as she's 'Erika from America'), and watching events we knew and understood. There was some great people watching here as well as it's a big social event for people from hours around to see their neighbors.

These are our big events of late.