New Tour Guide

Following Lyn Sayers' whistle stop tour of Paeroa and Waihi the mantle of responsibility for excursions in and around Adelaide has now passed to Jono deWit. This will leave Lyn free to develop secret plans to divert attention away from the serious contenders at the forthcoming Australian Nationals. The first opportunity occurred at the Counties show when it was learned that Kim (from Para & Districts Club in Adelaide) would be present to watch the Champion of Champions run. It was my function to pretend to become completely confused by inserting an extra obstacle into my run and by a stroke of good fortune Kim got the action on video. The next opportunity came with the strategic pairs training session during which a number of pairs did learn some valuable tips regarding the rules and strategy but unfortunately the training failed to improve the quality of some teams.
Thank goodness for the 'guns" in our party who according to a confession extracted from Kim do appear to have serious chances of success. Another strategy was to offer the organisers in Adelaide enough Contactacoat rubber chip to cover the contact gear which was duly shipped across a couple of months ago. Two separate clubs are supplying the gear and a club member from each is responsible for applying the coating but at last checking there was some thought that they may run out of time. Perhaps the advance party might need to offer a working bee to finish the job if this part of the secret strategy is to be achieved.
On a more serious note I would like to give credit to Deb Jackson for conceiving and coaxing the original members and for her tireless efforts with the arrangements for accomodation and rental vehicles. Fiona Hodgson was another early joiner and has contributed a huge amount of expertise to the challenge of getting the dogs to and from Australia.