Cortina Camp Cruising

Night one adjusting to communal camp sleeping found the three of us awake at 2am having a cup of tea and a yarn….before a big day! Lights out at 3am and a few more zzzz’s before up and out in our bad boys to ‘Show and Shine’ at the reserve near the beach!

The rain held off, the wind blew and the coffee was great, as the 90 cortina’s lined up in all their glory…

From oldest…

To modified…

These little beauties in all the colours (and more) of the rainbow!

Sedans, two doors and wagons…

Minus surfboards! As these were apt to carry in the 70s! A mix and mingle and education (for me at least) on the specifics of the MK1s of the 60s to the MK5s of the 80s and everything in between….and some very interesting backstories!

We all took tickets in the (fundraising) raffles which were drawn just before the planned cruise left!

And yours truly won…. A car cleaning kit!!! Never win a thing in my life and now I have a lifetime of cleaning products! But a win is a win!!

We then all cruised out on the planned convoy…heading south to the coast rugby club rooms – the home of the Barrett (All Blacks) boys!

And others! Where the club put on lunch for the crew!

The rain has rolled in and the round the mountain (Egmont) ride became less and less inviting! We chose to roll back towards town…and settled in for a bit of R&R before the big dress up night!

We pulled out the stops … had a fantastic dinner (lamb shanks) trivia quiz (not in the top three) dancing and the best sleep ever! The three campers sharing their intermittent night noises!

And up and ready to go for Sunday activities!