Just a summary of the weekend outing to the Wellington Vintage Fair and Street Parade for 2018. Four Mokes from the Sydney Moke Owners Group (SMOG) attended the weekend Sat & Sun 3-4 March.
One Moke Ross and Catherine had left early on the Friday and went via Mudgee and the other three Mokes Darrell, Ian, Alan & Kerrie met at Blaxland Macca’s in the Blue Mountains and departed there at 3:30pm for a great trip to Wellington we had great weather and flowing traffic thru the Blue mountains which saw us arrive at Wellington at 7:30pm right on sunset it was beautiful weather for driving an open car.
After a quick check-in (by country standards)
we went to The Federal Hotel for dinner and a drink I order a rump steak it was that big it must have come from the Kim Kardashian of cows it covered the whole plate for $14. After a Macca’s breakfast we lined up for the street parade and as soon as the Mokes were parked up they started getting a fair bit of interest,
that could have also been due to the fact that Darrell had found the only shady spot in the street. The Mokes were well received from the towns people as we took park in the parade, it was thru the main street and return so we actually preformed two laps it was great.
After the parade the four Mokes went for lunch at the Iron Bark Inn in Stuart Town
approximately 40km out of Wellington where Catherine had booked a table for lunch for us we were the only people who had a table cloth and flowers
and the aircon was set on stun at what felt like -40 degrees after driving in 37degree temps. After we had finished lunch we then went for a country cruise to Lake Burrendong Dam
at about just over 20 odd Km from the pub and then a leisurely stroll thru the Burrendong Botanic Garden & Arboretum (tree park)
after the arduous hike I collapsed back into my Moke and headed back to the aircon of our room at the Wellington Motor Inn for some of Catherine’s homemade fruit cake (yummo) guesstimating about 100km round trip . After showers to freshen up we walked to the Cow and Calf Hotel for dinner with Catherine’s mum and dad, son Tom and his girlfriend Natasha.
With a leisurely start to the Sunday morning we all met again at 9:00am at the Wellington Racecourse Showground for the Show And Shine and Vintage Fair
after two and a half hours of strolling around and checking out the stalls we said our good byes to Ross and Catherine and set our sights for home stopping in at Orange for lunch and fuel.
The weather was kind to us and we had a great weekend I would highly recommend next years event if you can find the time. All the Mokes performed admirably and drew a good crowd who wanted to share their stories and reminisce or just take photo’s and introduce the next generation to our fun little cars. So on to the next Moking adventure with great times great people and great roads see you then.
I personally travelled 820 KM during the weekend
Topic: Wellington Street parade and vintage fair Sat March 3rd and Sun 4th March (Read 819 times)