Forby Borby Bevan

Monday (Queen's Birthday public holiday) marked our first ever Jeep Club adventure. We met up with our fellow Jeep owners at Rowville McDonald's and set off into the Bunyip State Forest in search of adventure.

Bevan was the driver on this particular journey which was fraught with peril due to the rainy day and muddy conditions (stay tuned for more adventures filled with donuts which will indicate a switch in driver).

All in all we were probably a bit nervous given that this was our first Jeep Club trip and we weren't 100% ohfay with the use of technology such as the walkie talkie - which is really a fun device, I suggest all people living in built up urban areas get one, some of the conversations you can pick up from our house are really quite amazing, anyway I digress...

Basically, as you can see from the picture above while going down a extremely muddy steep hill we fishtailed out and the Jeep spun round and suddenly we were stuck. Because of the way the track sloped up on either side we were unable to turn around - either front ways or back ways and therefore had to 'crab' our way to the bottom.

At one point during the we came across a F400 ute precariously bogged on the side of a deep pond. The ute owners mate were trying to get him out but didn't have the right recovery gear so borrowed a snatch strap off us which they hooked on the ute's tow ball (very bad thing to do apparently) and tried to snatch strap the ute out. The snatch strap slipped off the tow ball and the front end of the ute slipped into the pond, which was really funny. Anyway all the blokes then got excited and started talking strategy and to sum up a fairly non-exciting time for me and they had to tie another 4WD to a tree and winch the ute out.

We then slipped and slided up and down a few more hills before half the convoy went down this hill into a big mud hole that was meant to be the road out of the forest and turned out not to be so everyone had to recover everyone else which was good for awhile until it got dark and we were stuck in the forest.

Anyway, all in all we had a really good day, Bevan got to do some really good 4WDriving and has since bought me a Jeep jumper to wear to prove my Jeep excitment to others!