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OGG Motoring Event 2014

Saturday 8th November

INFORMATION & CREW BRIEFING

Objective The objective is to provide an enjoyable motoring experience for OGG and the wider GGS community. Taking the road less travelled, the event offers a scenic drive from to Corio via Scotsburn, stopping for a picnic lunch in the grounds of Celia and Graeme Burnham’s historic property, Mount Boninyong near Scotsburn, [see detailed note on our wonderful lunch destination at the end of this doc] and finishing at GGS for afternoon tea. There are no costs involved, it is not a race, and crews will self-cater for morning tea and lunch. Afternoon tea will be supplied in a small marquee beside the Perry oval.

Photo shows Lee Jabara and Stephen Meek in the record holding 1927 Standard.

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Entrants and cars All OGG and members of the wider GGS community are most welcome to take part in the event. Current and past parents, COGs, HOGs etc. All types of motor vehicles and motor cycles are very welcome. It is hoped that the Geelong starting point will encourage entrants from the Geelong and Great Ocean Road region, the Bellarine Peninsula and Western District.

Event details & information

Title: OGG Motoring Event 2014

Date: Saturday 8th November

Start: 9.30am

Where: The Pickers Union Café carpark, 3 Mackey Street, Geelong. Phone 5277 1186 Entrants might consider enjoying breakfast or a cup of tea or coffee at the Pickers Union Cafe, a specialty coffee house and cafe.

On arrival at the start:

You will find that there is plenty of room to park.

Meet at the event briefing table for instructions.

9.30am: Drivers briefing Each crew will be handed an envelope, your car number will be on the envelope. It will include, The Map, on which the course has been marked. Navigation instructions, Questions to be answered during the navigation. Unjumble the words, and Towns Places and Suburbs questions and a car number sticker.

Name badges for each crew member, and blanks available for extras on the day.

9.45am: First car away

On your way: We are not trying to get you lost. If you do become lost you are welcome to cut and run to the morning tea or lunch destination, or to the finish. Please keep the questions to be answered during the navigation to hand, you will see the answers from your car as you navigate the course.

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You might decide to keep the Unjumble the words, and Towns Places and Suburbs questions until the morning tea or lunch break.

Morning tea: Your instructions will include details of the venue chosen for morning tea (self-catered).

Lunch venue Self-catered picnic lunch in the grounds of Mount Boninyong near Scotsburn. We would like to thank Celia and Graeme for their kind invitation for entrants in the 2014 Motoring Event to have lunch in the grounds of their home.

Finish at GGS There will be further navigation from our lunch venue to the David Knox Equestrian Centre in School Road GGS Corio. Where cars will congregate. When all cars have arrived we will proceed in convoy to Foreshore Road and enter the school through the Lunan Gates, drive past Cuthbertson House and the clock tower to our parking point under the Gallipoli Oak tree. The convoy's arrival at 3:00 pm will coincide with the end of the Tower Lunch. Those attending the Tower Lunch will walk out of the dining hall to join the motorists and admire the vehicles.

Parking at GGS A parking barrier running from the Perry Oval to the Oak tree and to the School oval will define the parking area; it will be sized to suit the number of entrants. This will provide a defined viewing area with some shelter.

Afternoon tea will be provided (self-served) in a tent on the edge of Perry oval. Please hand your answer sheets in to the officials at the finish control, which will be in or near the afternoon tea tent.

Answer sheets will be scored.

Results will be available and a winner announced at 3:30pm.

3:30pm: Official welcome to the school. Results announced.

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Helpful Advice Navigators - please read the instructions carefully, read them to your driver at the appropriate time, keep track of where you are on the map at all times, it is important to watch the kilometres. It is useful to mark, with a pencil, sections of road that have been travelled over. Drivers - drive with care, there is no hurry; the course takes in some interesting roads through picturesque countryside. The answers to the questions can be easily seen from the car.

Abbreviations given in route chart:

TL - Turn left

TR - Turn right

SO - Straight on

FMR - follow main road

Useful things to bring:

A clip board, pencils, a rubber, a magnifying glass. Your own morning tea and a picnic lunch. Preparing your car for display: Please bring a printed sheet of information about your vehicle to be displayed on the car. Include details such as year of manufacture, model and any interesting facts about the car and its history. This is best presented in bold type in bullet points. If entrants have an A-board with the vehicle's details on it, please bring it along. Spectators are always interested and it may save you answering the same questions many times.

To Enter the 2014 Motoring Event go to the www.ggs.vic.edu.au go to Alumni, OGG, Reunions and Events, Motoring Event, complete the entry form. Download 2014 Event Information Crew Briefing. Or email Katie Rafferty, [email protected] or call 03 5273 9338. Please do not hesitate to write or call if you have any questions. If you would like a copy of the Route instructions and questions from previous years so that you can get an idea of the format of the navigation please email

David Henry: Phone 0418 550 555, Email: [email protected]

What's on at GGS on Saturday 8th November? Finish of the Motoring Event, motor vehicle display around the oval (or in the Tunbridge pavilion if it's raining).

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The Tower Lunch (for those who left GGS over 50 years ago). After lunch in the dining hall, guests will inspect the cars. Information Day for Students new to Middle School. Students starting at GGS in 2015 and their families will be meeting staff, having lunch in Middle School houses and enjoying tours of the school from 9:30 am-4:00 pm. No doubt some will come to inspect the cars.

MOUNT BONINYONG STATION AND HOMESTEAD

History Andrew and Celia Scott emigrated from Glasgow to in 1838 with their four children - Robert, Andrew, Thomas and Martha. In 1839, Andrew Scott took up the 16,000 acre grazing run at Mt Boninyong station, in the district now called Scotsburn near . His wife Celia was reputedly the first white woman in the area.

Eight generations and 175 years later, descendants of Andrew and Celia Scott still live at Mt Boninyong. Celia Burnham (nee Scott), a great-great-granddaughter of the original settlers, her husband Graeme Burnham and their three daughters Sarah, Emma and Lisa have owned the property since 1984. The National Trust classified homestead was built in 1884 by Robert Scott and was designed by architect Henderson in the 'Scottish baronial mansion' style. Mount Buninyong, the mountain that inspired the property's name (although nobody knows why the spelling was changed) is visible from the homestead windows. The extensive gardens date from the 1850s, making them one of the oldest surviving garden layouts in , pre-dating the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.

The property's 175th anniversary was celebrated with a family reunion and the planting of an Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius) as a living time capsule. The Burnham’s graze sheep and cattle, grow crops, and are recognised in meteorological circles for maintaining the Scott family's historic tradition of recording rainfall in the Scotsburn district since 1856.

Geological and indigenous significance: Mount Buninyong (745 metres) is an extinct cinder cone volcano located 15 kms south-east of Ballarat. The first volcanic cone was created about 150,000 years ago. As an active volcano 12,000 years ago it produced lava flow to the east and the west. Mount Buninyong is important for the groundwater system of the surrounding volcanic plains with springs at its base. It is situated within the traditional country of the Wathawurrung Aboriginal people and is one of Victoria's most significant geological sites. The area surrounding Mount Buninyong formed the estate of the Keyeet baulk, a sub group of the Burrumbeet baulk clan, who lived around lakes Burrumbeet and Learmonth.