Darwin Royal Results

Look what we did at the Darwin Royal! We posed with our sashes on the fence of the caravan.
Sashes are from left to right:
Tiffany; Master Jumping Qualification, 2nd Place Masters Jumping,
Hannah; 2nd Place Masters Agility, 2nd Place Rally Excellent A
Tiffany: 3rd Place Rally Advanced B and  3rd Place Rally Excellent B.
Hannah got her 11th RAE qualification and I got my 9th RAE qualification and my 4th Masters Jumping Qualification.
The Royal is over now so we are back to being tourists again.

Hannah- 4 Years Old

Hannah was 4 years old yesterday. We are in Darwin, where Hannah had her first birthday, and had a day of quiet walks, sleeps, extra chews and a visit to the dog grounds for some socializing.
It has been a good year for Hannah. She has been very well with no sign of that SRMA she had as a pup. This year she got her JDX and ADX titles in Agility, her RAE title in Rally, and competed in the National Agility Trials in Brisbane.
We have been to many places. Lots of trips in the caravan to South Australian places, we have been to Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory as tourists and competitors, and we are about to go into Western Australia next month.
 We have met many dogs from all over Australia, visited many places and been made welcome everywhere we go. What a life for a dog!

Darwin

We are in Darwin, and we are camping. KnK bought a tent and we have been living in it since Mt Isa. Something broke on the caravan again at Mt Isa so we left it there until the parts could be delivered and fitted. The pic shows us by the statue of Sabu Sing in Katherine, who was a famous Stockman in the Katherine district.
We spend our days here in Darwin relaxing under a tree, with a few walks to keep us fit. There are dog trials on for the next three days but we can not enter because Keith is judging.
Hopefully we will get the caravan back soon so we can use the air conditioning.

Tollers in Roma

These funny looking trees are called Bottle Trees here in Roma Central Queensland. They look like Boab trees but they are a different plant. We have stopped at Roma for a few days because something broke on the caravan and it needs a part to be sent from Melbourne. KnK were hoping to be on the way to Darwin, but we have to wait for the repairs. It does give us a chance to have lots of walks and ball chasing in the parks here in Roma.
We did OK at the Nationals. I got a qualification and 5th place in Gamblers Excellent and my best performance in the Agility heats was 13th place with just 2 time faults. Hannah's best place was 14th place with time faults only. When we made the time we had course faults and when we went clear we had time faults, but we did have a good time with some very good runs.

The Nationals

We made it to the Nationals. Here is a picture of me running in Masters Jumping at the National Agility Trials in Queensland. I did not do all that well, neither did Hannah, but we were there in the ring competing.
I wanted to go in the tunnel but Keith wanted me to go up the Dog Walk, and I did eventually, but it was too late. In the Jumping we had a bad start when I left the start line early and Keith was in the wrong position, but we got quite a way round before it all went pear shaped. Hannah was doing well until the second jump when she went up a Scramble instead of over a bar, then did not want to run at all in the Jumping.
We have a day off today as we don't do Open class, but we will be back on Friday and Saturday to run again in the National Agility Trials.

SherbrookeTollers at the National

Look at us at the 2014 National Agility Trials in Queensland. All my relatives at the Nationals in one shot. From the left is:
Willow, (Half Sister), Cherry (Auntie), Rio (Dad), Murphy, (Uncle) Hannah and me.
We have been traveling since Thursday. We met up with Rio, Murphy and Cherry on Thursday night and traveled with them all the way to  Ipswich in Queensland, arriving on Sunday. We had lots of runs and chasey games on the way and then when we got here, we met up with Willow.
We had a look at the trial grounds today, there were lots of people and dogs all setting up there sites for the week of competition. I will be the second 400 dog to run in the Nationals, so I will have to be ready right from the start. Hannah is running a few dogs after me.
We have 5 days of competition ahead of us, competing in Masters Agility and Jumping, Excellent Snooker, Gamblers and Strategic pairs.
Willow is not old enough to compete, but all the others are in the running to be the National Champion in their class.
Well, I have to go now, I need my sleep to get ready for Day 1, tomorrow.

I've been Pyrographed!

Here is a photo of the pyrograph of me. The colours did not come out properly, (something to do with electronic artifacts, whatever they are, they caused the green bits) but you can see it is me. The picture is made by burning the image on wood with a really hot tool, then tinting and shading. It was done from 2 photos that Keith sent to Paul, one of his friends from Rotary, and Paul made the picture.

Hannah and I are getting ready to go on our big trip. We are leaving today and will take 3 days to get to Brisbane where we will be competing in the National Agility trials, then taking 3 months or so to get back home.

I had a few runs at Whyalla last week and got a Masters Jumping pass and a Rally RAE qualification too.
Anyway, I have to go to make sure they pack all our toys, beds and food.