On another occasion some years back I had this outlandish or weird or just
'far out' brush with a large mil veh convoy. I wonder if a simimlar thing
has happened to any one else on the list. the scene was a mid winter
weekend. It was a rare snowstorm that made it memorable. It was near
Picadilly Circus BBQ area up in the ranges near Canberra. Five or six
families and their cars and their picnic stuff and their dogs etc were
caught up there with us until the weather/roads cleared... a ranger was
there and we listened to the 2 way radio talk about a car club outing lost
somewhere in the same 50 sq kms as us... the ranger radioed that there was
no sign of them etc. Later, when the novelty of heavy snow is wearing off,
and the kids etc want to go home.... There's a low engine/ motor noise from
down in the valley.. it gets louder and you can make out 'mechanical'
noises...it is still coming 2o mins later - and then this remarkable, weird
'time warp' sight appears out of the gloom: a mil veh convoy -snow covered
half tracks, land rovers, white 6x6s, jeeps, dodges, trailers full of bivvy
gear, 44's, some taut tow cables, drivers in the open weather wearing great
coats, big gloves. goggles and WW2helmets etc etc, it was eye popping. Well
this so called lost 'car club' just kept going by and we all got in our
cars and followed 'em out. The ranger was clearly relieved. We felt safe.
I'll never forget the noise...that was about 1981. Now I know it was most
probably the NSW Mil Veh Association .
RF -mil pics at http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~derf/swb/