Editor’s note: Kath Downie shares more of her 2017 Kidney Kar Rally adventures in her blog post below!

After having the two afternoon stages cancelled on Friday, we faced the same bad news for the first two stages on Saturday. So we took off from Moama and travelled to Urana School for lunch before completing the final two stages of this year's rally.

The Kar in action!

So after the pics of the canola yesterday, we hit some serious forest tracks - well, some might call them tracks but many were barely visible!!! It was a tough stage (class 3) with some serious focus needed by both driver and navigator from beginning to end. But we got through it (1 minute early) unscathed! Then the final stage which, although it was a class 1, saw us venture into a couple more forest tracks before we overtook a couple of the leaders and before we knew it we were the first to cross the line at the finish! Not that this counts for anything but our time was perfect and we were greeted by a large crowd of locals and rally officials. As is normal at the end of the rally, we all gather at the finish line for a light refreshment while we cheer everyone finishing. We then convoy it into Wagga, check into our hotel and get ready for the official closing dinner.

So not only did we manage being the 4th highest fundraiser for the second year in a row, we finished equal 14th for the whole rally, so we are pretty pleased with ourselves really! Congratulations to the Bathurst Surf Life Saving Club for being the outright winners of the rally and to all the competitors for their camaraderie and their fundraising for those amazing Kidney Kids - that's why we do it!

Until next year...when we will be tackling Goulburn to Queanbeyan via Ballarat!