He slowed down to get a good look, but decided against stopping. The plan instead was to do the good bloke thing and pull up 200m down the road, and take a photo zoomed into the rearview mirror, to preserve the moment for posterity.
Luckily for Mango he had both camera's in the car.....
Meanwhile, Mango's luck took a turn for the better. Noticing the BMW riding past, he asked if Mango was travelling with someone. From this he learnt the whole story about the ride, at which point the copper told his mate to stop writing the ticket - there was no way he was going to ticket someone fundraising for the RFDS. For that he gets our top bloke of the day award, and Mango gets away without a ticket. Cheers!
Heading West we saw heaps of groups of bikes, including two sets of three bikies all being tailed at a distance of 10m or so by highway patrol. We must have seen over 100 bikes and about 7 cop cars. Turns out most of the bikes were on their way to Phillip Island for the MotoGP, and the bikies were on their way to a do somewhere that the cops had found out about. Needless to say we both obeyed the speed limit for the rest of the day.
FLYING FOX
Sunset saw us arriving at Cosmic Boy Camp, the camp servicing Western Areas' new Flying Fox Mine. We were greeted by Peter and Jon, who pointed us to our rooms, and who had arranged a site BBQ for the wet mess.
Mark the first aider had done a fantastic job on the barbie, and all the guys on site turned out in a strong show of support - it was fresh in their minds there having been an evacuation from site in the last couple of weeks.
The lads and ladies chipped in $483.80, which has been matched by Western Areas for a grand total raised of $967.60 - a fantastic result for our last mine visit and one that almost made up for the tragic result in the rugby later that evening.
Tom, Mark and Peter. Smiling about donations, not about rugby.
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