Run: #2262 – The Early Bird…

Date: Monday 25/9/23
Location: Noosa Spit
Hare: Popeye

It started really darn early – 4:57am to be precise! That was the time that Popeye sent me a text message – “can you add the start time of 5pm to the website page”. Was he confused with 5am an 5pm??! With such an early start, you’d expect millions of well set arrows up the stairs to the top of Upper Hasting Street, the Laguna Lookout, through the Noosa National Park or some exotic trail! Well, the hare didn’t exactly lie when he announced that there was some sort of sporadic markings – go along the beach and the pick up the trail along the boardwalk and then Hastings Street. More importantly, there were multiple drink stops at your choice and at your own expense!

A handful of hashers, gladly followed Next Week, All Fours and Licker onto the beach front but most took the less sandy route along the bushy track. It was quite a busy beach, Hastings Street with holiday goers, school holidays and of course – the Hashers! Towards the end of Hastings Street, Reverse Thrust and Bedspringer were the main instigators for a refreshing drink while Dun Rootin’ was eager to sip a G&T. At this ‘Gin Palace’ establishment, Weak As thought it was a little steep for charging $12 for a can of coke – not quite sure why he was drinking coke when last week he accused Ride On for trying to poison him with water at the drink stop! As we headed back through the Noosa Woods, the Noosa Botanic Gardens and carpark, Boobs who was seen striding ahead stopped by his car. At that moment, he yelled out with pain that he had got cramp – we all just ignored him and kept on going…

What a beautiful vista to the Noosa River Mouth/Entrance and across the sea as the sun was setting. Popeye and Jan whipped out their phones to capture the beauty while the rest of the rowdy hashers drank and chatted. The run report was given by Lunatic – a great, well marked run (probably All Four’s extra markings), scenic views, lots of people, sea, sun, sand, a wonderful walk which she scored 10/10!

Down downs were given to:

• Visitors: David & 6 Months of the Year (Melbourne) – Hoarder’s sister & brother in law, Jan (no hash name from Brisbane) – Bundy’s friend
• Shit Stirrer Award: Insultan – for feeling sorry for the unfortunate people with very little clothing on, where were those eyes wandering?
• Red Knob – for impersonating a hobo/homeless man with his worldly possessions strapped on his bike peddling around Tewantin
• Ride On – everyone following him at the start only to lead them to his car and not being on trail (Pied Piper?)
• 5 honourable milestone awards: Unremarkable (25 runs), Next Week, All Fours & Dun Rootin’ (50 runs), Boobs (600 runs)
• Recharge for living up to his hash name, ran out of battery juice on a long bike ride out of town – hasn’t he learnt already?
• Screamer & Unremarkable – Screamer recently declared on FB to the world that she’s in a relationship – it was to tell everyone (female and males) hands off her bloke rather than the announcement of an engagement (we can still have a party, can’t we?!)
• Reverse Thrust & Bedspringer for being the instigators for the drink stop @ the Gin Palace – apparently Reverse had 4 drinks!
• Boobs – on the way back he stops suddenly by his car, not that his knee was giving him trouble but he yells out that he’s got cramp somewhere else. There were some very keen onlookers wanting to help rub it better…

The free raffle (not the Chook Raffle) was won by DT. Thanks to the solo hare – Popeye for the random trail, roasted chicken and salad but most importantly the wonderful vista, banter and beers shared with fellow Hashers!

The morale of the story about the early bird is: “no matter how early you get up, you’ll end up getting roasted and eaten for dinner by the hashers!” (said the chicken)…

On On
All Fours