Tasmania 2015

Welcome to our trip round the apple isle in 2015.

More coming soooon!

Beechworth Bakery Cruise

Confusing I know, but we didn't end up in Beechworth, we ended up in Healesville,  I shall explain.

It's 8:15am on a magnificent summer morning, and the Diamond Creek McDonalds car park is full of MINIs.  Blue, silver, red, black.. you name it, even yellow MINIs were all present. 


*Photo by Momoe Photography

Black R58 JCW Coupe
*Photo by Momoe Photography

I mentioned it was a stunning morning, starting off with some fog which lifted as we drove through rolling hills, tight corners all whilst sharing the roads with our cyclist friends

*Photo by Momoe Photography

Sixteen MINIs in attendance, a fantastic turnout that managed to turn heads everywhere we drove.

Here we are having a little break about 90mins into the drive at Kinglake
 



*Photo by Peter Williams

Yellow MINI representing!
*Photo by Peter Williams

From here we headed to Healesville to have breakfast at the Beechworth Bakery in, yes you guessed it Healesville. It's actually one of six stores in Victoria.

 *Photo origin unknown taken from the internet - thank you

From here, everyone did their own thing before heading off home.

This was another fantastic run organised by the Events Director, Peter Williams. Thanks for a great morning Peter! 

To view more photos from this run - click here

 

Feb 7 2015 - clubMINI Photo Shoot

Time to get artistic!  The time was 7pm at Bivio Pizza Bistro in Kew. MINIs, with their owners, tripods and cameras ate some Pizza and then jumped into their 'go-karts' ready for some long exposures.

The backdrop was the Melbourne City Skyline - looking stunning as always. We all know Melbourne is like the BEST city in Australia.. but I digress..


*Photo by Peter Williams

MINI's posing

*Panorama by Peter Williams


*Photo by Momoe Photography

Light Painting - Achieved by dragging a strong light source over your subject during a long exposure
*Photo by Peter Williams 

And finally a stunning GP JCW R56 MINI Cooper with Melbourne as the back drop
*Photo by Momoe Photography

To view the entire gallery on Flickr go here 

Jan 17 2015 - Strawberry Farm to Phillip Island Cruise

Today's clubMINI cruise began at the Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm in Main Ridge on the Mornington Peninsula. Eleven MINI's and their owners, well erm the owners at least.. picked strawberries, looked under bonnets  and chatted about MINIs, MINIs, maybe the odd BMW until they hit the road for Phillip Island at 9:30am.

The next stop, after some twisties of course, was at the Nobbies on Phillip Island. And then to the Beach for a photo shoot...
 The lovely summer sun was out in force, making for some great photo opportunities!


I agree.. this is is a HOT JCW! Then a pit stop in Cowes for lunch and a gentle cruise home. 

*Photos by Momoe Photography. The entire gallery can be viewed on Flickr by clicking here

Come and Try Christmas BBQ at Albert Park

The annual ClubMINI Christmas BBQ Breakfast was held on December 14th 2014
at Albert Park.  A large group attended, a few newcomers and a rainbow of MINI colors saturated the Albert Park landscape.

There was 4 different models of MINI in attendance as well, Countryman, F56, R53 and R56s.


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - be safe and happy holidays.


*Photos courtesy of Ruth Harrison Brown and David Goudge

November short drive through the southern Yarra Valley

Todays drive started at the Berwick McDonalds (on Clyde Rd between M1 and Princes Hwy) at 8.15 for an 8.30am kick off.

The drive took us from Berwick across to Narre Warren and then....

to Belgrave, Kallista and finally arriving at Gembrook for breakfast.

Thus completing the November 'short' drive of approximately 1.5 hours. From here everyone shared morning tea/breakfast before finding their own way home.

Photos courtesy of Sharon Harper and David Goudge.

2014 Octobershoot - a photo shoot for MINIs (and a BMW)

A group of shutterbugs got together to shoot MINIs. The following shots are a display of the great work done by Momoe Photography and Peter Williams... The full album can be seen here.

R58 JCW Coupe  and below R56 JCW owned by Momoe Photography


Event Director Peter Williams in his 2 series BMW The rose between the thorns or the other way around? Click the link above to see more shots from this day :)