Last night we stayed here with some of the Hungarian Radio Orienteering team, plus Vadim from USA and 3 Romainians.
It was basic, but falling into disrepair a little. A former youth camp. Today a whole load of kids (a school ?) moved in sowe were relocated before breakfast into this house across the road. At least the latter has hot showers !
Today’s accomodation house (across the road)
Murray was just going to run along beside me this morning, but other convinced him he may as well take a sniffer along too. Good thing he did really as I had trouble hearing some on mine at times, so that little bit of extra help was valuable. Murray found it challenging, but certainly different. We took 79 minutes to find the M40 4 TX out of a time limit of 90 minutes. It was pretty steep terrain, I was being extra specially careful with my knee, and also attempting to plan our route together.
It rained for the first time after lunch, but only for 10mins or so.Waether today was warm but pleasant, possibly helped by our altitude in the hills. The forest is sometimes clear, sometimes a bit overgrown, so the running varies. All extremely green looking.
Previous blog here: https://ardf.org.au/WordPress/2012/touring-hungary/
I’m at a small hilltop town in NE Hungary called Bükkszentkereszt. We had some adventures getting here !
Gyuri (a radio orienteering guy from Hungary/US/Canada..depending on which hat he is wearing), mentioned in an email that there would be 2 days of training, after the weekend’s Hungarian ARDF championships.The champs also serve as a selection trial for the Hungarian team to travel to Serbia. Murray and I decided we’d head that direction, via a scenic route and see what happened.It also meant I could get a lift to Pecs with Gyrui whilst Murray returned to Budapest to fly home.
We headed north from Veszprem, as I’d noted how scenic the train journey was from Gyor, then the idea was to head NE towards the Danube and travel along the bank, avoiding the centre of Budapest.
The scenery was great, and a cool change was blowing though at last. We saw this ruined castle and windfarm on the way:
Ruined castleHungarian Windfarm
We momentarily visited Slovenia, due to an inadequate map, but then crossed back to Hungary (the hire car isn’t meant to leave), and then a bit later had lunch on the bank of the Danube. Unfortunately a bit windly so not as pleasant as it sounds.
Bükkszentkereszt is about 200km ENE of Budapest, so we ended upon the motorway.The normal highway limit is 90km/h, but the motorway is 130km/h ! I got used to it eventually my first day back driving on the wrong side.
We had to contact Gyrui to let him know we were coming, so sent a text from Miskcolc to his mobile. No reply. Oh wellwe’ll keep going. A few km up the road we came across an official waving at us. He couldn’t understand us so waved us on. Soon it became clear.There was a rally stage in progress, and we could go no further. Only a few km short. We watched the cars as we wondered what to do. Murray happened across a “block road ahead” setting in the GPS, and it found us a roundabout alternate route. Good thing as it turns out as it was a beautiful drive around the mountains.
We wandered up and down the rally car and fume filled streets of Bükkszentkereszt hoping to find a free WiFi so we could ring Gyuri on Skype. No luck. Tried the public phone….phone card only it seems (the Visa symbol on the front Gyrui later told us is a lie). Finally a return text ! GPS coordinates. Off we go, onlya couple of km down a side road to here, a sort of basic cabin style thing. Went out to dinner with the Hungarians, so all turned out well.
Last blog here: https://ardf.org.au/WordPress/2012/wmmtbo-the-long-long/
Yep, it was another hot day, but more wind which made it a bit more bearable.
We simply rode from the Uni accomodation to the Start (about 6km) when it suited our respective start times. No need to drive anywhere today. Start times were spaced all through the day.
My own 1st leg was marred by the fact I had no idea where I was for a while. Carolyn J and Murray W also experienced difficulties, but seems I was most caught out. It was only afterwards that Peter C mentioned to me that the start triangle on the map wasn’t located where we were started that I could figure out how I’d got it all so wrong. Anyway, 10 minutes wasted, which is unrecoverable really in this sort of world competition. Still, I gave the rest (which was a lot, over 30km on my GPS) a good shot. Nearly did my trick of missing controls again, but recovered OK losing only a few more minutes.
There were large areas of grassland to pedal over. Some there simply wasn’t a track option; the control was out in an old tank hidey-hole or something. The ground was somewhat bumpy. Murray came a cropper on one of the linear ditches.
There were also 2 maps issued at the start, which was novel. You had to pull the other one out when the 1st one ‘stopped’ at a control. There was yet a 3rd map issued at the 2nd tunnel under a railway line which took you back through Veszprem town (with police supervised crossings) to the finish, after a cruel very steep uphill penultimate leg (pictured), in the city centre.
I ended up 36th (out of 45 in M40), so not disgraced at the bottom. Best result was Carolyn J, dissappointed in her 2nd place. Chris F 12th in the juniors. Peter C also a very credible Top 20 finish at 19th in M50.
Unfortunately Tom G was out of luck again with a puncture at the 2nd map change,so he had to run the section through town. He couldn’t undo the valve stem screw to put a new tube in.
It barely seems like any time has passed, but tonight is the last night, with Banquet, in Veszprem. Tomorrow Murray and I head off towards Bükkszentkereszt, the other side of Budapest, where Gyuri is competing in the Hungarian ARDF championships this weekend. I don’t know what my internet access might be over the next week or so.
Murray had my camera today, so these photos are courtesy of him:
PS: Let me know if you are reading these blogs !! Thanks to those who have sent me feedback. (Only 1 view of the 2nd part of the sprint ? You’re not even trying 🙂)
The relays (3 team members pass onto the next) were held near Osku, not all that far fromn the area I did the model event on the day I arrived in Veszprem.
In the morning the Worlds (open) and Juniors had their go, in the afternoon the Masters. A couple of the juniors were promoted to Open to make up the teams, so we had 2 open teams, 1 junior boys and one M40.
Large open grassy paddocks with drying grass. Riding off tracks is fine, but a bit bumpy in places, so sometimes debatable whether it’s worth cutting a corner or not. Of course some controls weren’t on tracks at all, so riding off was essential.
Good maps will appeat here in time: http://www.mtbo.hu/mtbwoc2012.php/routegadget. In the meantime, here is my relay variant.
M40 Relay map
The junior race was a nail biting performance, with Chris F coming in an amazing 2nd on the 1st leg, followed by a blistering ride by Marc G maintaining 2nd, but with an even quicker time. Tom looked good on the 3rd leg at the first radio control, but then disappeared from all ken. Other riders came in and finished, still no sign. Poor Tom must had had a gut wrenching time as the seconds and minutes slipped by and the chance of a placing faded into the distance. Turns out he’d become navigationally challenged, rather than mechanical breakdown or injury. They still managed a credible 8th, but the tension was hard to take.
Meanwhile the day grew hotter and hotter.It was painful and exhausting to stand in the sun, so we took to slinking about in whatever shade we could find. Now I know those experiencing winter will be thinking “bring-it-on”, but it was 39Deg by the car thermometer as we departed.
Heath J rides past a spectator loopHeath J tags Karl W to transfer from 1st to 2nd leg
Peter C and I waited and waited in the sun for his return. We knew he had to come through the spectator loop first, and also followed the radio control progress on my phone with the live web updates (they provide WiFi at the event site, but only to access the MTBO website).
I headed off on my (2nd leg) dead last. Well, nowhere to go but up ! Despite the conditions I rode OK and navigated reasonably well. I really had no concept of how well I was doing, but turns out I took us from 8th place to 5th place. There were 9 M40 teams started, but 2 had miss-punched already, so we were down to a field of 7. I took 57 mins, Richard had taken 64 mins (but had seemed longer as we were waiting). The top gun UK team who had been leading the field had also miss punched ! Only 6 teams left. We watched the phone as Peter C took us all the way to 4th place with a fast first section, but he obviously flagged a little and dropped us back to 5th (by only a 2 min margin) as he finished. Somehow he lost his water bottle on the course, so we were able to throw one at him as he rode past the spectator.
So, since they have all the first 6 up on the podium at the presentations (held back in Veszprem, always with a precurser of usually tedious singing or dancing troupes, in a rapidly heating city hall), we were actually on the podium in 5th place. For a short while the official results even declared us 4th, and one of the Czech teams “nc” (whatever that means), but this seemed to be modified back again later. Oh well. I wore my Australiana ARDF top, as I had it with me anyway for Serbia later.
Incidentally, due to vagaries of the web entry system, the team name was “Bayside Kangaroos”, so it was a BK podium finish for the day. Certainly beat my last 2 event results anyway 🙂
BK podium relay finish !
Rocking horse in Veszprem city square… it actually rocksOur accomodation at the Uni
Tomorrow is our last day of competition here. The Long Distance race. This one apparently finishes in Veszprem city centre (near the rocking horse above) and with a map changeover, so it could be an exciting race.
Probably another hot one …..
Last blog: https://ardf.org.au/WordPress/2012/wmmtbo-sprints-sprung/
Cheers, Bruce
PS: Did anyone watch the sprints video(s) from yesterday ? The laptop had to run all night to render and upload them, so apologies that they probably weren’t there when you read the blog orginally. Try again now !
The enjoyable ride on the sprint event (this one just for Masters, the others had a rest day)
The wonderfully cooling swim in the huge Balaton lake afterwards
The new bike mechanicals worked perfectly without a hitch
Murray got a ride in the sprints and had a good time
The Contour took a great movie of my sprint ride (see below…)
Carolyn J got a silver medal
Knee was fine
Ice cream at the lake
Not so good things about today:
The oppressive heat continued
The moment as you watch your split ticket being printed and you see two dashed lines
The really odd map colouring which the greens looked like yellow, and the near invisible purple control lines
The realisation I had (yet again )skipped a little 2 control loop without knwoing it at the time (went directly from 5->8 which are very close to each other)
Dinner at the caf (well it was OK, better than Tuesday’s I thought)
Carpark in Balatonalmadi townSwim in Lake Balaton
Carolyn J in changing cubby
Sorry for the odd placement of these images, but the wordpress blog just appears to have undergone a “media upgrade” and moving images around now seems to be broken.It also randomly ‘forgets’ captions and titles. All very strange !
Peter C finished 37th and Murray 46th in M50. Carolyn C also rode today finishing a credible 13th in W50.
Previous blog here: https://ardf.org.au/WordPress/2012/wmmtbo-middle-middling/
See if you can spot the ooops after the long downhill in the 2nd video (as well as the obvious mistake skipping 6 & 7 in the first). Have a look at the map on Route Gadget to follow the control sequence. http://www.mtbo.hu/mtbwoc2012.php/routegadget, or if not there yet, here is a photo I took of my map:
If anyone bothered to watch my ‘live feed data’ today (in the middle of the night in Aus), you have noticed a sudden drop in my speed at around control 7. There’s a very good reason for this, and it basically revolves around the fact that once your rear derailler has broken off, it isn’t possible to pedal anymore. Well at least I was able to ride down hills and walk otherwise, at least untill I then got a puncture. There has to be something very special about managing to get a puncture once you are walking your bike 🙂
Our car, parked in the Death Valley paddock
Pure bloody mindedness, and the fact it wasn’t a huge detour, made me decide to finish the course walking. Quite amazingly, I wasn’t last, even amongst those who didn’t miss-punch. I felt I was going pretty well up till things broke, possibly mid 20’s sort of placing, but that’s just a guess.
The team blog will appear at http://ausmtboteam.blogspot.hu
Peter C came 23rd in the tough M50 category, but we just went to watch Carolyn J get her gold for W50. Also well done to Chris F, 5th in Juniors, and that means he also got to stand on the podium. Please Slovakia don’t keep doing well, your national anthem is toooo long !
Carolyn Jackson and Advance Australia FairChris on the podium
M40 1st, 2nd & 3rd all Czech Republic !
Update: My bike is all fixed up again by the local bike shop, ready for the Masters sprint event tomorrow morning.
Went into the nearby ‘old town’ for Pizza, wine and ice cream cone afters. Delicious, and have to say a lot better than the organised meals at the uni caf.
OK, so lets stare at the elephant in the room right off ! Yep, this bit of the blog has nothing to do with ARDF. …
It will though, eventually, as this time I’m taking part in the World Masters mountain bike orienteering in Hungary, on-the-way to Serbia. Other things also make it a little more relevant, such as the help I’ve received from our good Hungarian friend, Gyrui.
So yes, I have arrived in Veszprem.
It’s hot.
Did I say it’s hot ? Well coming straight from the Auzzie snowfields to here is a bit of a shock, with temperatures in the high 30’s. Gyuri likens it to Death Valley. It’s been that way since I got to Vienna yesterday. The 2-part train journey from there was actually quite pleasant. The last part as you approach Veszprem from Gyor was spectacular, with pitch dark tunnels through mountains (the old MAV diesel train didn’t appear to have operational lighting) shooting you out onto high bridges over gorges.
Room in Hotel Congress, ViennaHeaps of wind farms in Austria… both sides of the railway
Murry picked me up at the train station (we are sharing a hire car), then left me to it as he wanted to see his son, Karl, finish in the Juniors sprint race (he did well, actually). I assembled my bike in the University accommodation we’re sharing (luckily on the less sunny side of the building, and only on the 1st floor,so cooler). The odometer sender mount was the only casualty of the air transport (or perhaps even the Bruce transport), but I’ve managed to rig up something with cable ties that appears to work fine.
Murray returned a bit later to give Carolyn J and myself a lift to our model event, held on the sprint map the Open (World MTBO) and juniors (JWMTBO) rode on earlier today. Murray has also scored a free bike for himself to loan from one of the organisers (!), so we could all go for a ride.
A cloud came over just as we started, so the heat wasn’t too oppressive, and I quite enjoyed the ride. The sprint event was effectively a foot-O event on bikes, as there is no requirement to stick to the tracks here, and in fact many of the sprint controls weren’t even placed on a track ! The other bit of good news is that it seems I am able to ride, after a bit of a snowboarding accident last week. Detaching the left hand foot from the pedal isn’t easy though, so I’ll have to avoid falling on that side !
The Aussie Worlds team opening march
Opening ceremony…what can I say ? I escaped before the traditional dancers got going as the masters aren’t required there.
The rain held off, the lemon pie from Marta was yummy, the FoxOrs all ran without a hitch, what more could one ask for the day after the Winter Solstice ?
This was the 2nd event in the current festival of RadiO events we have headed into. A total of 16 competitors competed in the full CombO (FoxOr + Street-O) or had a go at some of the FoxOrs. It was good to have a few newcomers give it a go. You still have to poke some street-O regulars into it a bit (eg. MJ), but they end up enjoying it and doing surprisingly well. Others managed to hide at the start and slunk off to do just a boring street-O (eg. TH / JG).
As well as the 20 street-O controls and 6 2m FoxOrs, I also had one 80m FoxOr you could get before or after the rest, so well done to those who left enough time to fit that in. Ewen, who was the only one who chose to do 80m first, was a bit disgruntled a couple followed him to the 80m FoxOr without carrying 80m sniffers themselves, hence gaining a slight advantage, but there’s not a lot I can do about that. I guess congrats to those who took that opportunity ! Having a street-O control very near probably didn’t help. It didn’t impact Ewen’s relative result anyway.
Those doing just the RadiO controls will score a bit lower of course, but I figured it wasn’t worth generating a seperate category. Congrats to Ian Dodd being the only one to get everything just within the 75minute time limit, scoring the maximum points of 128. Well done to Nathan Diggins who ventured out on his own for the first time, and considering he spent 45 of the 75 minutes quite lost he actually was doing well on the FoxOrs. Special mention should also go to Jenelle Templeton, who performs much better when Ewen isn’t anywhere nearby, and would have done a lot better if she’d got back on time.
Note Sarah Davies, Cath Sheahan and Mike Keen were all just going out to find 1 or 2 only to give it a try.
A Fox-Or radio orienteering event was held in conjunction with the Eaglemont Flats MelBushO on Sunday 3rd June. Sixteen people took part and enjoyed hunting for transmitters on both sides of the Yarra.
Some people competed in pairs and you can see this from the times in the results. However I should mention that Ian Dodd and Ewen Templeton did NOT do the course together. They competed independently yet both took exactly the same elapsed time. We may have to move to SportIdent for the next Fox-Or to achieve split-second timing? Chalky and Jacinta were enjoying the 3-transmitter course so much that they decided to get a fourth transmitter which explains the extra time that they took.
Mention should also be made of Bruce Paterson who attempted to walk on water across the Burke Road Billabong, I believe he got rather wet but obviously got a time benefit. Tim Hatley first competed in the long orienteering course, then went out on the six-transmitter course, found after two controls that his sniffer wasn’t working properly, returned to the start, got another sniffer and a new start time, then went out and completed the six-transmitter course in a very respectable time of 36:33. Greg Williams brought his two “sniffer” dogs along to help him find the transmitters. They seemed to be a bit more subdued after 6 km or so.
Thanks to those who helped with control collection, packing up and other assistance during the event such as demonstrating equipment usage to newcomers and making mugs of tea for the course setter. Thanks also to MFR for providing a copy of their new map to me in advance of the event.
Here are the results of the hunt held yesterday 18th May 2012. Scoring was 0 for first, 1 for second, 2 for third etc. As there were 5 teams max was 4 so a team not finding the fox within 10 minutes (single leg hunts) were awarded 4. Multi-leg hunts were scored as above for each leg, with leg times determining the places.
Many thanks to Kristian and his mother for organising supper, I think we may be returning there again as it certainly met our exacting standards. /(What is wrong with the hounds these days, there was food left over!?/
HI everyone Here are the results of the hunt held yesterday 18th May 2012. Scoring was 0 for first, 1 for second, 2 for third etc. As there were 5 teams max was 4 so a team not finding the fox within 10 minutes (single leg hunts) were awarded 4. Multi-leg hunts were scored as above for each leg, with leg times determining the places.
Many thanks to Kristian and his mother for organising supper, I think we may be returning there again as it certainly met our exacting standards. /(What is wrong with the hounds these days, there was food left over!?/
Results from Friday 20 April:
BLN FAST MZ FOX TXO CI
1 Kmart Plaza 1 0 1 7 2 3
East Burwood
2 Sienna Falls 0 6 6 6 6 10
Waverley
3 Nortons Park 0 1 1 1 1 1
4 Aquatic Cntr 0 5 3 4 10 2
Waverley
5 Tirhatuan and 0 10 6 1 9 6
Starlight
7 Blackburn Lk 3 10 0 1 10 7
TOTALS: 4 32 17 20 38 29
Congratulations to BLN team for most convincingly winning the night!
Notes:
* Scoring was zero for first team with other teams scoring one point
for each minute or part thereof, to a maximum of ten.
* First two hunts were on 70cm, remaining hunts were on 2m.
* Hunt five was two-legged, with both frequencies announced at the start
and teams required to collect a token from the first fox and present
this to 2nd fox. Scoring was the usual point-per-minute at the 2nd fox.
* Arrival order (and minutes after 1st) at first leg of 5th hunt:
BLN FAST(6) MZ(6) FOX(6) TXO(6) CI(10)
* FAST elected to have an early night and retired after hunt 5.
* Hunt 6 was not scored, due to unresolved controversy regarding
equity of accessibility via Eastlink.
* For those still confused by "shrubbery" references at supper, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo (1 min version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQfGd3G6dg (6 min version)
This blog covers he last 3 days – for the much diminished group remaining.
Thursday was a low key event on Harding’s Paddock (which was in fact mostly bush) a little south of Ipswich. The map is in the gallery below. A tricky course that lulled you into a false sense of security. A few of us had trouble even on control 1. The other trick was finding the way through the deep green Lantana around the creek. I ended used the dry sandy blue creeks themselves because I couldn’t find the secret path shown to the far west that was harder to find than it looks ! Ewen had a really good event, coming close to my time despite a lower speed. Sausages & drinks after were part of the deal. Still quite warm.
Apparently there is a group of retirees who run events every Thursday for themselves, and others such as Uni students & proffessors also occasionally make an appearance. Rod of this group gave Suzanne and myself a lift to Brisbane when Ewen went back to Stanthorpe to rescue Henk (who is feeling better by the way).
Suzanne & I clambered around Mt Coutha on Friday after being dropped off at the top cafe by Ian, my brother on his way into work. Birthday dinner in Toowong joined by Henk & Ewen.
Today the sprint events were a lot of fun. They were the tricky navigational universitycampus types that really keep you thinking hard the whole way. Apologies in advance for the dodgy map quality in my photos. For a start they were fairly hard to read anyway, but the morning event at the Kelvin Grove QUT campus on Pretex was a lot better than the afternoon, very dark printing, map on plastic bagged paper UQ St Lucia campus.
In the morning we competed in our normal age groups, and I managed a 4th, almost a 3rd place, but for a 30 sec error I made punching a later control 11 on my way to 9 (I have a bit of an unfortunate habit of this). Suzanne had a good run against a very competitive field who would probably do very well against the Elites. A hard, but very brief tropical rain shower doused her just after she started. Ewen had a ‘mp’ which he was a bit bamboozeld by, till he got the map and realised he’d just missed 8 altogether.
In the afternoon we all did a Sunley. Doing a Sunley entails entering Elites in a sprint, even though hopelessly outclassed, just to get a decent run. However, we also took the precaution of entering in disguise. Suzanne (Ingrid, lisped with an outrageous scandanavian accent) had flowing golden locks, Ewen made a pretty below par attempt at Elvis impersonation, and my super-sized afro bore an unintentional but convincing resemblance to a certain Elite called David Sheppard. The other thing you should also note when doing a Sunley is whether the 2 sprints on the 1 day are actually part of the same event (ooops), so they ended up putting us at the end of the chasing starts, after all the morning mp Elites. We also had a very minature Warren Key in Elites (Warren had mp’d in the morning so gave Ashton a go in the afternoon instead; and lil-Warren beat me, as it turns out).
I actually made a pretty good bash at this event, and had I not been tricked by a ‘switch’ control to go direct 7 -> 8/12 -> 13 (the map was very dark and 8/12 -> were in a direct line so an understandable mistake in retrospect, that others also made on my 1b varient), I wouldn’t actually have been last. Oh well, missing out 9,10,11,12 loop is a definite mp. Lil Warren (Ashton) did M21E in 32 minutes, and he is only 10 or something ! Ingrid had the same ‘switch’ control, but was more cautious and finished the W21E sprint properly, complete with the aforementioned much admired golden plaits swinging about. Elvis took his 50 minutes cautiously, but also left the building with an M21E under his ample belt.
Henk was picked up by his sister, and we now have a hire car, picked up with some jiggery pokery at midday today. At least it means we can get to the last event tomorrow. Why they didn’t have the Brisbane sprints on Sunday I have no idea !?
Here’s an edited video of Day 1 Sledge mass start. Unfortunately still quite jerky (David Stratten would be unimpressed), but the raw footage is far worse!). http://youtu.be/dR1_elwgwuA
Rest day yesterday, and most of us needed it after the 4 days of rock & seeds.
Yesterday, many went to visit the Girraween National park a few km south of Stanthorpe, followed by a relaxed lunch at the Stage Coach Cafe, then a quick Winery visit to Symphony Hill. We’d tried the earlier nights winnings and decided not to visit Summit wines, but Robert Channon winery might also be worth a visit, which we did after the event today.
Some pictures of the National Park are in the gallery.
Take a peek at the Cascades map from this morning. Wow, what an inticate masterpiece ! There were mixed O results today, ranging from “I’ll never go here again”, to “that was really quite fun”. My own experience was more in the latter category. There weren’t any age groups today; people had just entered whatever course length and navigational difficulty they thought they would like to do. Like street-O. I’ve had a belief for quite a while that Vic State Series events should all be like this. You compete against people of all ages, but similar abilitites. It avoids small age groupings with only a handful (or just one !) person.
Most courses featured one or two long hard legs in them (see map below), which tripped up some, but everyone finished their course, despite some being of the epic variety. There was lots of grey that was mapped so well it was a bit like street orieteering in Kensington, till you had to cross the shrubbery barriers ! The white was fairly thick in places, but not as seedy as other days, so it was great to not have to spend the hours de-seeding various bits of clothing today.
Given the high class of those finishing above me in Red 3, such as Nick Dent, and many notable names below me, such as Isabelle Wymer (2nd over Easter 3 days), the ever average Russell Blatchford, Easter Day 2 course setter David Firman, and John Scown (who caught me on the 1st control), I was quite happy with my 4th place. Suzanne did well on her super long 4th leg in Red 5, but was too tired to navigate properly for the next few controls. Still, she still beat John Sheahan who started well but had some grief on the long leg. Mark Besley had the same long leg as Suzanne, but did a commendable multi-faceted noodle on arrival near the control circle. Very picturesque !
The afternoon in the sun, a bit cooler today, was spent at a winery, a cheese factory and a berry farm place called the The Bramble Patch (yummy raspberry and boisenberry ice cream mixed on the spot).
Most of us leave Stanthorpe tomorrow and head north to near Ipswich. Mark heads home towards Melbourne carting the very valuable grape based cargo.
