This was a great weekend at a very enjoyable venue. The sprinklers never wet us at all this time.

Facilities were good for the early attendees with showers nice and hot on Thursday and on Friday afternoon. From Friday night on showers were (to coin a phrase) “BRISK”. For those who had a brisk shower after Friday afternoon I can only applaud you for your courage.

Friday tea was a Thai meal, which some enjoyed and some felt could have been cooked a little more. All a matter of taste I suppose.

Cards Friday night had a large proportion of the members playing, and yours truly did not do so well.

Chocolate wheel was well patronised with many interesting prizes won.

Saturday morning saw rain fall at morning tea and with Thursday being very hot the rest of the weekend was a real weather change.

Saturday lunch was a shared lunch, with an excellent range of dishes as per usual. Everyone outdid themselves providing a meal. There was enough left over for lunch on Sunday as well.

Saturday night the Chapter provided icecream in cones. Also enjoyed by all.

Trish was not wearing her moon boot and playing disc bowls partnering Shirley they presented a sever challenge Gary and Lin. Not sure who was the overall winner – or maybe I don’t want to know.

Trish and Shirley left early Sunday morning to head east for a month or so. Several other members

left during the day, with 4 stallwarts staying until Monday.

Below are several photo’s. Check out the kangaroos. They came out every evening, and on

Sunday evening came right down to be level with where we were all parked.

Overall a great weekend.

New Members

Please welcome our latest new members.

Barbara joined in December

Ros joined in March

Steve joined in March

Please introduce yourselves to them and make them feel at home as a true WAGS member

A word about Xmas

The Christmas venue this year is Quairading 11th to 15th December. We have reserved 20 sites at the Quairading Caravan Park phone 0438 213 042.

Please ring and book your sites now, as when they are gone there will not be any space or sites at the park. The deal is if you have to cancel more than 48 hours before the 11th Dec then there will be an automatic refund of the booking fees. Less than 48 hours before the 11th and you will need to convince the CEO of Quairading Shire to approve the refund. It is therefore safe to book now and reserve your spot. Just tell the Park you are with the WAGS and they will let you book.

Costs are $30 per night and if you book 4 nights then you only pay for 3 nights.

The meal for Christmas has been booked at the Quairading Club.

When you book at the Park, please let me know so as to reserve your meal space at the Club. Meals can only be reserved at the club once I know you are booked in.

NEXT MEETING, 10th 14th April Piawanning Stay safe and drive carefully

21 people, 9 vans and 11 dogs. ( in total)

By Friday afternoon everyone with a van had arrived. We had visitors Anne & Chris from Perth Wanderers who informed me, very enthusiastically, that they had really enjoyed the weekend.
The RSL venue was great and happy hour at 4:30pm was enjoyed by all under the large patio area.
Friday nights meal was also had outside under the patio as the club was vary busy. Prices for the meal and alcohol were very good and surpried several members at the low costs. People were friendly and staff very helpful.
A night everyone enjoyed.

Saturday was spent in a variety of activities. People went swimming – the beach was only a stones throw away – played disc bowls and/or cards, or just relaxed.
The evening meal was a shared meal held inside the RSL building, with cards after the meal if you were so inclined.

Sunday was a very busy day with 5 of our members who had vehicle problems, injury or no vehicle at present, visiting to catch up with everyone and attend the chapter supplied breakfast.
Breakfast was excellent and the “chef’s” (Shirley & Gary) did an excellent job. No one went hungry, and several of us may have eaten a bit more than our bodies needed.
Disc bowls was played before and after breakfast, with Trish doing a sterling job on crutches and with a moon boot. Even with those handicaps, she threw a dangerous disc bowl.

Most people left after breakfast, with 4 vans staying until Monday.
Overall an excellent weekend, with everyone I spoke to saying it was a great venue and weekend..

Next meeting Gidgegannup 6th to 10th March

Thursday was catch-up day for some members to arrive, set-up and relax.

Friday all the members who were coming arrived in their various vehicles including Barbara who began as a visitor and then, much to our pleasure decided to join us as our latest member.

President Lin and Wendy joined us minus their bus, it had broken down in Narrogin, fortunately they had towed their Suzuki along. So a night in a Narrogin hotel, 2 nights in a Wagin hotel and bumpy rides to & from Woodanilling while waiting for the much needed spare part to arrive in the Narrogin mechanics was on their agenda.

The day was spent chatting, card playing plus our usual games. Our evening meal was very pleasant with BBQ'd steak & sausages plus the salads and desserts brought by members to share.

Saturday saw Lin & Wendy a little frustrated as the promised spare part hadn't arrived which meant another bumpy ride for them to join us for morning tea and to begin organising everything for our Christmas celebratory dinner & evening.

Lin distributed our new summer sunshine hats which will keep our heads, necks and shoulders safe from being sunburnt.

Serena kindly BBQ'd the remaining sausages for our lunch. After which some of us relaxed while other gallant members worked hard decorating the tables, putting the hampers together, wrapping prizes and planting a winning number under one of the chairs.

At 6pm we all made our way to the hall, the tables looked great plus bottles of red & white wine were there for us to enjoy.

As it had been suggested we most of us had found various suitably festive outfits.

There were male & female Christmas elves, a human Christmas Cracker (Leanne), silly hats and plastic blow up costumes (which sagged as no-one could blow them up), for those who didn't have an outfit .

Lin did a great impersonation of Lawrence of Arabia in his gown and headpiece.

One of the CWA ladies was kind enough to take a photo of the whole group in all our glory but somehow managed to cut our heads off so take a look at the pic and decide who is who !!! LOL

The very nice 2 course dinner was cooked, served and cleared by local CWA ladies and enjoyed by us all.

Bad, very bad cracker jokes were shared, the raffle Christmas hampers were won, as were the wrapped gifts and the secret chair number found. All in all it was a very special & fun way to celebrate both Christmas and our WAG's friendships.

On Sunday morning we held our 2024 AGM during which Lin remained as President,Tony as Secretary, Rosalie as Treasurer, Leanne resigned her position as Events Co-ordinator after two years of very hard work, for which we all are very grateful. Shirley was nominated to take up this difficult task which she reluctantly accepted as no-one else was game enough to take it on but we are sure she will do a fine job assisting Lin.

June continued the position as Scribe.

The meeting was closed and many members left for home at lunchtime.

The rally started well with morning tea at Piawanning.

The venue looked good and we may look at it as a weekend site in the future.

Monday night was at Lake Ninan, near Wongan Hills. This is an excellent location and the sunset was stunning.

Tea was a jaffle night, however unfortunately we could not have a fire as fires are banned at the   lake. The gas burners performed well and the meal was excellent.

Tuesday we set off for Beacon, arriving around 10:00am. On the way we stopped and had a look at Bencubbin. Many had a coffee and looked at the items on display in the main street.

At Beacon we had a brunch breakfast in the very new camp kitchen at the caravan park. This is a great facility and once again everyone ate too much.

The rest of the day was spent either lazing around or exploring the town, depending on people's preference.

A bonus was the gift vouchers supplied by the Shire for staying at the park, which people put to good use. The museum was also open and several people explored that. Overall a pleasant way to spend the afternoon.

Wednesday we headed to Nungarin Military Museum and Mangowine Homestead.

First port of call was the museum, where most people spent several hours exploring. A very interesting and huge place.

Lunch for some was at the local cafe, which served excellent food. Then off to explore and stay the night at Mangowine Homestead.

Thursday we travelled to Westonia. Here we stayed for 2 nights and explored the town, museum and Tavern for tea.,

On Friday morning we had a cooked breakfast, where again everyone ate more than they should have. Isn't that what holidays are about?

Saturday morning saw us packing up and beginning the return trip to our homes.

So enided our Roving Rally. From reports all enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to another one next year.