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When the August edition of the Suzuki Club magazine got delivered we were delighted to see our little Sierra on the front cover in colour. I think this picture is of the first hill climb we did. My trip report was also inside along with lots of photos taken by various people including myself.

As I didn’t actually take that many pictures of our zook it is nice to see that other people did and reminds me I must go onto the club photo vault and see if there are any more that would be good to show here.

[Continued from Day 1]
The weather remained fine the next day. There had been about five minutes of drizzle at around 6am but it didn’t come to anything. We were all up early around 7am (apart from Tim who was last – does this deserve a fine?) and got the fire going again for cups of tea and coffee. There were fry-ups all round and a leisurely tidy up afterwards as we waited for Ray and Sandra to return. Much to everyone’s surprise the mobile signals had picked up and Tim earned another fine for receiving a phone call from Tubby, kindly informing him that the Suzuki Club website was down.

Ray and Sandra arrived at 10.30am and by that stage everyone had pretty much packed up camp so we decided to take everything with us. Five minutes from setting out Mat charged a muddy bog and came a cropper when he was stopped dead by a (more…)

A couple of weekends ago (11/12 July 2009) Mat and I took the opportunity of another Suzuki Club trip to head out bush and spend a night camping, and get some off-roading action of course! Unfortunately we were a little late and so I landed the task of writing the trip report, something I wasn’t too wooried about as I knew it would mean I could use the material twice by getting a blog post from it too, instead of my usual trick of having something in draft for ages and never actually getting round to publishing it. As it happens I wrote the trip report over a week ago and it’s still taken me ages to get it up here. So here we go, a complete rip off, word-for-word, trip report as published on the Suzuki Club website (though you can only see it if you are a member):

Mat and I set off nice and early to meet everyone at Mittagong at the appointed time of 10am. However, fifteen minutes after our departure Mat remembered he had forgotten to pack the gas hose for our camp stove so decided to go back for it. This resulted in us being half an hour late and the last people to arrive, therefore by tradition, the allotted authors for this trip report

It didn’t take us long to reach the forest and not far in we reached our first site of interest, a nice hill climb with paths of varying difficulty. The site used to be an old quarry, so say, and really was the perfect start to our trip; a little playground just for us.

It was important that (more…)

On Sunday Mat and myself became the proud new owners of Noddy, a Suzuki SJ (or Sierra as they are known as here in Australia).

We have been toying with the idea of getting one for a while now and Mat has had his eyes on one belonging to the owner of our local camping shop, The Outdoor Shack. When we were in there purchasing ourselves a new tent Mat mentioned it in passing and was surprised to find out the the man was looking at selling it shortly.

Well, the long and short of it is that we collected her on Sunday, in exchange for AU$2,000 and our word that we would spend $250 in The Outdoor Shack (something which will be all too easy as I have my eye on several items). Believe it or not this is pretty cheap for one this tidy, even though she is due to run out of Rego at the beginning of May (Australian equivalent of tax, MOT and 3rd party insurance all rolled into one).

Anyway, we took her on her first outing to Warringah Mall and here she is parked up on the roof:

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