Cowboys And Engines

Introducing .... The Rodeo Drivers

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

His name's Mark, but he answers to Bundy. (To all my non-Australian readers, that's Bundy as in Bundaberg the rum, which in turn is named after Bundaberg in Queensland.) That's Bundy's ute (read pickup, in other parts of the world) in the background. And if you run into Bundy at the 2007 Deniliquin World Record Ute Muster tell him I sent you. And tell him that I'm still in awe of his avowal - when asked how much of the vehicle was his craftsmanship - that ``every nut and bolt'' was his work. The burgundy ute was gleaming in the sun, with the legend ``Bundy made me do it'' painted along the side.


And this is Dani (above), who came up to have a yarn, in that wonderful, geuinely friendly manner of country folk. She and her partner were down in Melbourne for the day to promote the muster, on the last weekend of September. To see more photographs, go to Muster And Commander and Ute Tube.

Bundy and Dani, if you're reading this, good luck for the muster and I hope it's a great bonanza for the bush (Outback, for my overseas readers) which as both of you pointed out, was hit so hard by the drought.