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Bundaberg Swim-In 2009

A four day event held over the Queen's Birthday long weekend, June 2009 at the Walker property on the Burnett River, Bundaberg, Queensland Australia. This event was huge! The LVT-4 Buffalo amtrac (used in Spielberg's upcoming tv series 'The Pacific') was the star of the show, along with a DUKW and GPA jeeps constantly giving joyrides. The events were a beach drive, a forest trip, a WW2 jeep trailer race across a dam, floating a WWII jeep in a tarpaulin (incredible!) and using a WWII Kenworth wrecker to lift a jeep into the DUKW. The club extends its grateful thanks to the Walker family for the massive effort in putting on what would have to be one of the most exciting and enjoyable HMV events held in a very long time (we think!). A video of the event is in preparation which will be redacted from some club members' videos. If you were there and have any footage, let me know!

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Rod and family cruise around in the early morning fog
The beautiful half-ton Dodge WC-21 going through a mud puddle
Rest stop on the beach
Picturesque beach stop
Same from another angle
View from the back of the half-ton Dodge, Arron driving
Beach stop
Some of the vehicles on the beach
At the top of the dune where the track leads down to the beach
The jet-propelled Platypus amphibian (see its website www.ozamphibian.com)
Half-ton Dodge
From the back of Jason and Danny's Dodge WC-63, a Normandy veteran
The Dodge WC-63 at a stop in the forest
Half-ton Dodge Command Car and jeep
Along with the mighty LVT-4, the Walkers' DUKW was taking people on joyrides virtually non-stop!
The local Blitz wrecker from up the road
An extremely rare sight in Australia, an M8 Greyhound armoured car. It performed very well offroad
M8 Greyhound armoured car
Wayne Kotz's Local Pattern LP2A Carrier. It threw a track but was back and running only a short time later
Sam's WWII Kenworth M1A1 Wrecker installing the roof superstructure onto the other LVT-4
After the trailer race across the dam
Jeff's jeep in a tarp floated surprisingly level with the floor
Jeff's jeep being dragged ashore
Just a part of the lineup of vehicles that attended

More great photos of Bundy 2009 on the Registry of Ex-Military Land Rovers website here



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