This weekend Wayne and I took time out of a really busy schedule to join some friends in the little wheatbelt town of Corrigin. I first met Ron and Jill on tour soem years ago and they’ve travelled with us frequently. Ron runs an agricultural supplies store and looks after the needs of local famers for irrigation and steel. The store was originally a blacksmiths forge and foundry and has been running for 90 years although shoeing horses gave way to to fixing windmills!
After a lifetime of work, Ron is ready to retire and Gannaway Brothers will be no more. There was a party held to commemorate 90 years of business and to farewell it.
I made a celebratory cake.
Whenever one of our tours goes through Corrigin we always stop and say hello. One of the best things about our jobs as tour operators is that your clients become your friends. We’ve taken Ron and Jill on some great trips (they even planned a private one, taking their grandkids gold prospecting) but their favourite was a Nullarbor Explorer, where we detoured up to Maralinga and wandered all over the Nullarbor Plain. We hope to see more of them on tour now they are retired but we also know that we’ll continue to enjoy their friendship and hospitality in Corrigin. Thanks for a memorable party!