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Hi Leah, Isaiah, Bronco and Team Ralphy,
Your days sound huge and Im sure youre starting to feel a bit weary. Isaiah, Mum and Dad will be so proud of you. Im not at all surprised you get in first each day. Keep it up, you might have to give Mum a helping hand!!!!!! Just joking Leah.
Catch up tomorrow. All our Love,
Glenn and Karen and the girls.
Hello again Leah,
We have just had Riverfire here, another spectacular display by the F111s. Still following your progress daily, sounds like you are all amazing. Have been thinking about you at night wondering how it all is.
Keep trekking Team Ralphy. See you very soon.
Lots of love,
Karen. xxxhi peter happy fathers day love you judyxxxxx and shayne and all the other dads .
well guys i am still alive my bloody daughter didnt kill me with with taking me parashuting trip she said she was taking me on i should have known she was lying, but boy was i scared . she got a stripper instead ,HI Leah, Isaiah and Bronco and the Ralphy team,
Its so wet here I hope you are having better weather. Its a special way to celebrate Fathers Day Isaiah, Dad would certainly be very proud of you. Keep up the great trekking.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads.
Carmel and Lib may be coming over this afternoon to join in our family get together.
Stay safe. Thinking of you,
Karen and Co.Happy Fathers' Day Tony! Geoff and Bron have …finally… learned how to log onto this system….. For oldies like us its almost like climbing Kokoda (well mentally).. Fabulous images of the area and wow Lachlan – have you grown another .5 metre since we saw you in June???? You all look really great and we really love what you and the group are doing…I am sure Ralphie approves. Hi Tony & Nathan, Leah and Isaiah. Hope you young and fit guys (Nathan, Lachlan and Isaiah) have carried the packs today for the 'oldies' and given them the day off just for being Dads!!!!
It must be really sobering to look at the gravestones and other reminders along the way of our beautiful Ausssie boys (some younger than Lachlan) who died in that georgous place in such terrible conditions.
How precious is life…..
Love to you alltake care of each other
Bron & GeoffHi Leah, Isaiah and all team Ralphie trekkers
Have been following your progress. It sounds as though you are having an amazing time. There's no surprise that Isaiah is first in each day! Your dad would be so proud of you, Isaiah. And you, too, Leah. As are we.
Have been thinking of you today.
Very wet here, it rained all the way home from Cooran to Ipswich. We went up to spend some time with Ian and Lesley and had a really relaxing weekend – no walking at all!
Keep up the great work. There are many people here thinking of you and are with you in spirit.
Georgia is trying to organize a day for Lib to come over
Love to all
The Coles xxx
PS hello Bronco!
Hi, this message is for Amy Rayfield Trek 659
I saw the pics Amy, you look great! Im thinking of you and am so Proud of what you are doing!!! Cant wait to hear from you : Visited your house yesterday and all is well!!!
Grace Paulo
Hi Dad and Poppy,
happy fathers day! you must be having fun and exhausted! wish I was there!
Miss you all,
your beloved Chooka!Hi Dad and Tony, have wonderful Fathers day, miss you and love you all! hope you are OK after your big day. Looks like it gets easier now, hope so.
love you
SimoneUpdate Sunday 5th September: John reached Kokoda around 1:30pm and is presently enjoying some Kokoda hospitality. As for the trekkers they have reached their destination of Templeton's I where they are spending the night.
According to Trevor, tomorrow they are heading for Alola and the next day should run into John heading in the opposite direction at Isurava Memorial area.
Trekkers continue to do well with no problems. Now they are on the home stretch and the boys will start thinking they will get their trekkers safely to Kokoda and about now also start to think about their families and the celebration at the finish line.
SDC11723__640x480_.JPGhi mum and isaiah
its been raining a lot here today, hope all your stuff is dry. karen invited us over today we went mamar liked it cause she takled to graces grandparents. we have been doing somthing for you and we havent been able to do much of it because of the rain.
keep walkinglove from liberty and carmel
Hi Leah, Isaiah and all the team.
Congratulations you are all doing so well. Great to hear Dad is there safe and sound. He will be so pleased to be able to catch up with you all. Leah give him a big hug for me.
Safe trekking.
Love always
JuanitaHi Leah, Isaiah, Tony x 2, Lachlan and Nate.
We have been following you everyday and glad you are all doing well! I hope the rest of the trip goes well and that you are all enjoying yourselves. I am very proud of you all. Love Alyssa.sup dad happy fathers day i will have to pick something up from europe for you, have a good day busting your arse up big hills,
nate hope your doing well , and keeping up with yoyo so he dosnt get a bigger head then he already does, i dont even know how he managed to get in a plane,and leah and isaiah hope your doing well, ur team flogged the other night with the help of dylan and ethan,
and pop hope your keeping up….who am i kidding your probably leading the trek maybe even done it twice already
keep it up guys
– Blaike
Hi to all the Mad trekkers, and you Roey!!
What a great experience to share, so much fun sitting at home watching the updates. You guys are making it look easy!!! Must ask, how does the smallest porter get the two biggest boofheads???
Take care and we are thinking of you guys.
Mark, Jack and the boys.
Update 6th September: Hi everyone, trekkers have now reached Eora Creek but the news is not so good today as we have to airlift Peter Rayfield off the track due to a swollen knee problem. At the moment, he is being carried down to where a helicopter can land and its now my job to get him off the track.
This must have been giving him grief for a couple of days as I just met up with another group of our trekkers this afternoon. This was shortly after I received the sat phone call and the doctor in this group immediately knew which guy Peter was as he noticed some pain on his face as he passed him on the track. This was two days ago so goes to show you all how he has tried his best to keep going which is a gutsy effort.
I have just put in a call to his insurance company and am waiting for them to phone me back. As its 3:15pm I doubt if this will happen today as pilots do not like to go into that area unless the weather is really good preferring early mornings instead.
However, he is still with the group and I am thinking they will stay put at Eora Creek instead of moving off to Alola but I cannot confirm this until I hear again from our guide.
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