b'Dec 2021 Trackwatch.qxp_Trackwatch Layout 128/11/20215:38 pmPage 8 Club SpotlightOn top of the World!Easter trip to WonnangattaBushTrek 4WD ClubParticipants: Garry (trip leader), given the crazy traffic) to put lastPeter, John & Glenn all in GU Patrols, minute fuel in the vehicles, and coffeeAnthony (co-trip leader) & Ingo both in the drivers. After playing musicalin Mitsubishi Tritons, and the vehicles at the bowsers with everyoneWorlands (Ken, Jarryd & Katelyn) in a lining up for fuel, we eventually head-Land Cruiser Prado. ed off for a late start in the direction ofAfter enduring the lockdowns of 2020, Mt Buller and Clear Hills Spur. Quite athe Club needed a big trip to get bit of that crazy traffic was going inaway for a bit, and a 4-day 2021 that direction too, but found a niceEaster trip to Wonnangatta fit the bill. spot to air down, get off the bitumenThe idea was to get into the High and we were making good time. ThatCountry, do a big loop around was until we had just got on to ClearWonnangatta and the Crooked River, Hills Track. I started to feel a vibrationand out via Billy Goats Bluff Track and under the car and heard a noise.the Pinnacles. The weather was fore- Stopping briefly, I sent my kids Jarrydcast to be kind for most of the trip, and Katelyn to look under the car forand we were all eager to go. a stick or something. They reported allDay 1 (Good Friday, April 2nd) clear and we continued on, but so didWe all met up in Mansfield (like the noise. Deciding I had better checkapparently most of Melbourne did things myself, I was in the process ofstopping on the track again, when I 6 DECEMBER2021 TRACKWATCH'