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It all started last week when i bought a boat on Ebay.

The boat was in melbourne and I'm from Adelaide. No problem my brother in law and I hatched a plan.

Melb and back in 20 hours, easy as.

We started off good, leaving Port Elliot by 11pm thursday and making good time.

Coming on Stawell just before Ararat we hit troubles, big puddles, very annoying.

We had covered 504km in just under 3.5 hours. Then we were informed that the main way out of Stawell was flooded and we were blocked in.

So we sat around til morning and then got bored. a couple of local lads suggested a more interesting, riskier back way to Ararat.

We followed them on thru and then found out that they road thru to Ballarat was under 1 metre of water.

We bought a road map from a servo and started plotting out route. then we got back in the mighty Stagea and hit the road.

We ended up going to down so many blocked roads and flooded in water crossings. but finally we made our way to melb.

It only took 19 hours and 1350km, but we got there.

the pics and movies tell the story.

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The brother in law, he even dresses to match my car, nice bloke

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Edited by Big Fella

hmmm wet ey. nice boat, huuuge engine size compared to boat length!

Yeh boat is tuff.

200hp v6 2 stroke engine, 17 foot hull.

Just need to get it retrimmed this week, serviced next week, and wakeboarding the week after!

man If I had knees would LOVE to wakeboard with you

*sigh* before I had the kneecaps removed I made sure I experienced snow skiing and speedboat wakeboarding, thankfully

wakeboarding is awesome fun.

tomorrow probably heading down to the Onk.mouth at sunup for a bodyboard, thats as close as I'll get :(

man If I had knees would LOVE to wakeboard with you

*sigh* before I had the kneecaps removed I made sure I experienced snow skiing and speedboat wakeboarding, thankfully

wakeboarding is awesome fun.

tomorrow probably heading down to the Onk.mouth at sunup for a bodyboard, thats as close as I'll get :(

there's always the ski biscuit mate! keen as for an SAUSA Stagea cruise and ski meet! lol

Edited by Big Fella

there's always the ski biscuit mate! keen as for an SAUSA Stagea cruise and ski meet! lol

cruise and ski meet sounds awesome! get some boats and jetskis, bbq, it'd be great!

oh and lol @ ski biscuit, I havent got tits mate, think I'll say no to that, be the spotter, and con a ride on a jetski instead - looks at kidafa ;)

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