Run: #2261 – I do like to be beside the seaside…

By Dave Masters | 21/09/2023

Date: Monday 18/9/23
Location: Sunshine Beach
Hares: Ride On & Roobarb

We gathered at Ed Webb Park in Sunshine Beach, half expecting to reach out to the sea and run along the sand where I’d be singing:

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea
Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom
Where the brass bands play tiddley-om-pom-pom
So, just let me be beside the seaside
I’ll be beside myself with glee… (may be Slurps did?!)

Alas, it was not to be as we ran parallel to the coastal track and sea and up Maher Terrace with an elevation of 127m to the Noosa National Park. But then, we only skirted along the edge of the National Park to head back into and passing luxurious large homes in the Sunshine Beach. There were plenty of checks, which Next Week managed to get most of them correct. We spotted a street named Corona St where I marked ‘C.Virus’ – I wonder how many hashers noticed that? With a walkers and runners split, the four dedicated hardcore runners – Weak As, Next Week, All Fours and Kaffir managed to stretch their legs a little with an added 2km loop. We managed to catch up with the walkers and soon there was the markings of ‘On Home’. We thought we had lost trail, seeing the promise of going home markings, but we had almost another 1km to go!

The circle was a shamble of hashers randomly forming a semicircle around the picnic table shelter. The run report was given by Next Week who gave a score of 6.85 out of 10 which was actually meant to be the distance but everyone misheard him. It would’ve be 10 out of 10 had it been a longer run but it was a good distance as we managed to catch up with the walkers near the end. The walkers report was given by our OBE, Longis Prongis – there were great hills, good markings but was sorely disappointed that there were so many short cutting basket cases!

Down downs were given to:

Visitors: Diane & Andy (Dorset) and happens to be Ma’ Dog’s sister, Sandra (NZ) is housesitting Licorice Nipple’s sister’s house
Blameless or is he faultless? With his newly constructed super doper knee he does 12,000 steps in a day without leaving his house – apparently he’s strapped his fit bit to his dog and told it to come back in an hour!
Shit Stirrer Award: Slurps for being the caring sharing person she is, having had a lovely walk down to the beach she wasn’t at least concerned with her friend Mother Trucker for not only being lost on trail but she could’ve be left lying on the side of the road! I think she was singing the above tune of being at the seaside…
3 lost little lambs: Wet Check, Mother Trucker, Hoarder – said they weren’t lost but got way laid instead, having stopped at 3 bars & 1 pub!
Ride On – must’ve come prematurely when asked how far it was from the last marking of ‘On Home’ to the actual home as it was nearly 1km of teasing!
Tail End & Hoarder – recognition of 450 runs (total of 900)! – we sang ‘get a life’ to them…
Shazza was on the phone and we made too much noise during the circle for her to hear her conversation. She also needs a hash name – suggestions were: was she on Tinder? When Shazza met Bazza? Swipe Right or Left?
Ride On got another one from Weak As, but his drink was an empty cup as he tried to ‘poison’ Weak As at the drink stop with water and not beer!
Slurps had a birthday drink and song

An important piece of information from the GM: apparently if you haven’t had your leg over for a while you become a virgin again. If you want more details, phone this number 0469 696 969 (for a good time, ask for Licker)…

Thanks to the hares: Ride On, Roobarb (& Miss Millie) for the ham salad rolls, trail, fun and frivolity beside the seaside!

On On
All Fours