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From Tim....

The weather has decimated IMD Tasmania this year. The forecast was as bad as it could get at this time of year. 11°C, huge winds, road weather alerts, a flood watch and storm warnings for most of the state. We're a pretty hardy bunch, but it wasn't looking real safe on the road, and definitely not fun. I looked down the street to the beach and didn't like what I saw, the surf was pounding, the shore was covered in foam and there was pouring horizontal rain.


Our first meeting place was by the wharf in Hobart, where I met up with James and Mel, in Mel's Moke....with no sides.


Next stop was Bridgewater where we completed our convoy of three. After a bit of telephone conferencing with the Northern and North-western contingent we pulled the pin on the long drive to Ross, did a short run up the road to where we could turn around, and straight into Maccas, where it was warm and dry. We quickly took the official photo and after a bit of a chat over a hot cuppa, IMD Tassie (south) split up and headed home.


When I got back the sun was out, but the sea was stormier than ever. I took a nice photo of the Moke in the 'snow'.



Thanks to Lindsay, James and Mel for braving the conditions, we still had a good time, even if we were just talking about Mokes, rather than driving them. Shame we missed meeting up with our Northern counterparts though.

Tim


From Dev in the North.....

Tassie International Moke Day 2009 take two the Northern effort.

As Tim stated earlier, it just wasn't safe to join the Southerners and Northerner's today.  With wind speeds on the Midlands highway rated at approx 40 KPH and gusting to over 80 KPH.   Not being rude to our beloved Mokes, but with a 70 kph head wind we don't really keep up with the rest of the traffic flow.  This may cause dangerous situations on a busy highway.  
The the Southern crews cruised a per Tim's post earlier today.

  
We had five Mokes at our meeting point, including the 8 wheeled 3 ltr turbo diesel, articulated model.  With an Isuzu power plant.



After a phone call to the Hobart crew we decided to head west and had a lunch at a roadside cafe before heading our own ways and going home.
Half way to the cafe I decided to abandon the Rodeo and join Lonnie Moke and get right into the feeling of IMD.  Thanks for the ride Pete.




Unlike the Hobart crews me managed to find some sunshine and actual get quite comfortable.





Not quite the numbers of previous years but still a great ex cuss to get into a Moke and have a drive.

Cheers

Dev


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