Frozen Friends - Sh*tbox Rally Autumn 2027

29/08/2026

Cake stall today Bunnings Tuggerah 🎂🍰🧁🍭🍬🍫🍪

21/07/2026

SBR 2026 Autumn Morning Briefing Pics
Some you can just see us and others you can’t. Hide and seek 👀

Raelene

19/07/2026

🎉🎉 WINNER WINNER 🎉🎉

Katrina Stevenson number 2️⃣7️⃣
Is our very lucky winner taking home $500 cash

Lucas Grange number 4️⃣1️⃣ is our runner up winner taking home $150 cash

Thank you very much to everyone for your constant support and dedication to our rallies and fundraising. Without you, it could not happen.

It’s not over……..

Autumn 2027 Rally, we’re coming for you 🩵
Stayed tuned for more fundraising bbq’s, cake stall and events

Love team
FROZEN FRIENDS 🩵🚙❄️

19/07/2026

Day 7

Dargo to Melbourne

Distance: 309km
Sealed: 275km
Unsealed: 34km

Morning!!!!
This is our last morning waking up in a car or tent, the last morning of waking up along side our new family/friends.

THERE’S ICE inside the car!!! Trying to look out the back window, we pushed aside a dress that had frozen to the inside of the window. WTF! This was cold, this was officially the coldest day/morning of the rally. After finally managing to squirm out of the car, there was frost and ice everywhere.
Without looking at ourselves, trying to fix ourselves up and look somewhat respectable, we sleepily made our way to the toilets and breakfast.
We past a stretcher bed with nothing but a sleeping bag on it 🤷🏼‍♀️
The sleeping bag was FROZEN and someone has been sleeping in it!!! No swag, no tent, just a bed and sleeping bag. Turns out it was Clint from Team Doug. A few too many drinks were consumed the night before that by the time he walked back into camp around 1:30am, he couldn’t be bothered putting up his 30 second instant blow up swag that he’s bragged about for almost a week, instead he got in his sleeping bag and went to sleep on the bed.

Breakfast was delicious, we got hash browns with our bacon and eggs this morning.

Today was buy back the car day so while Tina attended the briefing and buy back, Rae got to work on a glitter prank we’d been planning.
Rae started at Peabell’s car, filling both air vents with glitter then turning their fan on full ball ready for when they started the car 🤣
On to the next car and she was interrupted by one of the group members who asked what she was up to. Playing all innocent, she made up a story and walked away, coming to tell Tina that she thought she’d been caught.

The film crew asked all the ladies of the Rally for a group photo outside of the Dargo pub! Yeah the girls!!!
We got the photo and rushed back to camp to make sure her cover hadn’t been blown.
As soon as we arrived Matt from Peabell sat behind the wheel and turned the key 🤣
He jumped out screaming “I bloody knew you were up to something” covered in orange glitter. “I got a mouth full of it and it’s all over me, I just had a shower” shaking his hair and tonnes of glitter falling to the ground. Trying to not to give ourselves up, but also laughing hysterically, we tried convincing them it wasn’t us by secretly glitter bombing ourselves. Orange glitter was now all throughout our car.

We got another family photo by the river before heading out of camp.
Rae behind the wheel this morning, we were out early today and with only 309km to go, we knew this would be a great day.

We drove through the most beautiful scenic routes of the whole trip. Trying to take photos but honestly, they don’t do it justice.

We stopped in at a Yallourn Power station where Brad from Bearly Running works. He spoke about the power station and the history behind it all.
Clint from Team Doug was all dressed for the occasion in a beautiful pair of blue shimmery tights, kindly donated by Tina.

We headed back on track and towards Moe where Brad and Jackson both live. Their family and partners were all there to greet us. It was a really special moment and it was lovely meeting their families. We’ve been invited back for Christmas in Moe 🎄
It was time to finish the journey and make our way to the finish line in Melbourne. Saying our goodbyes, Rae continued driving and we were only an hour and a half from the end.

Shortly after take off the boys realised one of their family members had left their keys in there car so they made a quick u turn and headed back and would meet us further up the freeway. Or would they 🤔

We got the call we’d been expecting for so long, their car was dying!! They pulled up and temporarily fixed whatever the issue was. We pulled over in front and waited for them to meet us. You could see them coming from a mile away with all the smoke their car was blowing.
They rejoined and we headed along the highway again and then into the city.

TRAFFIC! Argh!!! For 6 days we haven’t had to deal with traffic and this was insane! But we finally made it through and to our meeting point at Brighton.
We stopped for a code yellow and a quick family pic before crossing the finish line.
With Team Doug leading the pack, he arrived first, got out of his car, spread a little bit more of his late brother Doug’s ashes at the line, more tears were shed and they drove through, completing the rally in honour of Doug. We were extremely moved and honoured to be part of this experience.
We drove through, shook James’s hand again on completion and parked up the Sh*tbox for the last time this rally. We had a few visitors and handed out bracelets to the children.
We then got the meet some of the families of our other group members. There were hugs and tears as we celebrated our rally, driving just over 3500klm

We thought it was only fitting to finally announce to the group that the pranksters of the crickets and glitter was in fact US 🤭🤣🤣🤣
Most were very very shocked, a couple reckon they thought it was us but we know we had you all fooled! Gotcha 👌🏼

We did it!!!! We raised $26,626 for Cancer council research and we couldn’t be prouder of our achievements. Another rally done and dusted and ready for the next!!!!

Love Team Frozen Friends.

Raelene Loomes

19/07/2026

Day 6
Narrandera NSW to Dargo VIC

Distance: 463km
Sealed: 399km
Unsealed: 64km

Today is “In memory of” day. This could be in memory of someone you may have lost from Cancer or someone who is currently battling this disease or it can basically mean anything you want it to. It was a day of reflection, memories, hope and prosperity.

Far out it’s cold !!!!!! The coldest we’ve ever been so far. Was very hard to pack away everything this morning as our fingers almost had frost bite.

Went down for breakfast, very similar to all the other days. Tina lined up for almost 25 mins for Tea which she skulled down in record time. Got our lunches and packed everything ready to head out.

Nothing exciting happened at briefing, just everyone standing outside, finding a warm sunny spot trying to defrost.

Tina started the drive today and poor Rae had no idea what was in-store for her 🤭

The frost was thick and heavy on the way out. It was quite a slow morning on the road with buddy group after buddy group trailing behind one another.

We drove through Lockhart and headed to Albury which would be our first stop for the day.

We had almost an hour in Albury to look around, shop or do whatever we wanted.
Guess what we found? KFC
How could we resist! So we stopped in and got a little go bucket for the trip👌🏼
We regrouped at the Bunnings in Albury and headed on our way towards Lake Hume, the river, which is the boarder between NSW and VIC.

It was amazing! Stupid is as Stupid does got the drone out for a family pic and then back in the car and on the road again.

We then stopped at Mitta Mitta, there was a cute little shop and pub there. There was also a beautiful river running along the back of the pub. The water was absolutely freezing 🥶
The team enjoyed a drink and were ready for the next leg of the drive.
The lovely lady in the shop warned Tina about the windy roads ahead 😳 awesome!! Tina continued to drive to avoid getting car sick along the way.

For 2 and a half hours we drove on the most windiest roads, up, down, around and around and around we went. And just when we thought we were there, we’d go up another steep mountain and then back down again. Tina moaned, groaned, almost cried (a few times) had tantrums and moaned and groaned some more.
We FINALLY made it to Omeo and we detoured up to the lookout where we could see Mount Kosciusko.
Everyone was asking how we went, how was the drive? Rae’s response, “do you know what’s worse than the windy roads, sitting in the car with Tina listening to her whinge about the windy roads”

It was freezing at the lookout so Tina sat in the car stuffing her face with a bread roll, 99% sure she’d see it again after the next part of the trip with more windy roads ahead 🤮 Rae desperately trying to find a toilet area, but there were way too many people at the lookout so we headed back on the road, praying that one of the boys would call a code yellow 🤞🏼

Rae’s prayers were answered, back on dirt road the cars were starting to back up again so everyone jumped out for a toilet break.

After all the windy roads, the Twiins brakes were getting a bit soft and a few klm’s further down the road we got a call over the radio that they had lost their brakes and electronics so we all pulled over again to let them cool down.
We happened to pull over on an emergency brake fail hill. The Bearly Running boys eyes lit up! The drone came out and everyone had their phones ready to film. Jackson took off and headed up the hill making it all the way up the top. Did a donut and came flying back down 🤭🫪. Crazy.
Not crazy enough though cause Rae was even thinking about asking for a ride up the hill and back. But after deciding to chose life, she passed on the opportunity. Stupid is came up with a plan, they would lead and report back on the conditions ahead, hills, grades, braking etc and the TWIINS would follow with Bearly Running team behind them incase their brakes failed and they could gently catch them.

The TWIINS car made it safely into camp. We arrive in Dargo around 8pm. Tina was desperate for a room for the night so ran to the pub and asked if there were any availabilities. There were not, so the decision was made that they would BOTH sleep in the car tonight. The final night. There was no chance either of them were setting up the tent only to have to pull it down the next morning covered in ice etc.
The line up for dinner was long, very long. But was totally worth it. The selection was amazing and we had full little bellies again. The fire was raging, more games were played, desserts were eaten (by Tina only of course) and bed was calling. Sorry, the car was calling.

Upon returning to the car, we remembered Rae’s hot water bottles. That was an event in itself. Rae tried to give Tina 3rd degree burns during the process. “Here Tina, can you hold this please” ………forgot to mention that the bottle was only half full and the lid was off, Tina threw it over her arm (it was the 1metre long hot water bottle) and sat down. Within a few seconds it got hot, very hot and Tina jumped up and screamed “ah its open, it burns”
2 staff members walked past giving her a weird look, Tina in shock and not sure what just happened, looking around for the lid, Rae returned reaching for the hot water bottle with a smile not realising what just happened.
So turns out it takes an hour and 4 people to boil a kettle, Rae thought Tina could see what was happening and knew it was open and half full, Tina did not lol
Thank goodness for thick thermal tights, 3rd degree burns were narrowly missed and the car was calling once again.

After moving everything, shuffling everything, twisting, turning, laughing, more shuffling and turning we were asleep.

Raelene Loomes

19/07/2026

Day 5
Louth to Narrandera

Distance: 578km
Sealed: 393km
Unsealed: 185km

There is no dress up day today

Team Doug were still reeling about this bloody cricket, so Jackson from Bearly Running had a look around the car and managed to find the little cricket hiding under the steering column. Convinced it was team Stupid is as Stupid Does, they were planning their revenge ☺️

Headed into Louth on the bus for breakfast and to pick up our lunch bags

Breakfast was the usual, bacon and eggs but we also had left overs from dinner so we chose beef curry along with some toast, bacon and eggs. Delicious.

Headed across the road for the lunches and we had a great selection today. A softdrink, fresh roll/sandwich (a few choices of fillings). A packet of chips (HONEY SOY CHIPS!!! Tina was delighted as she ran out on day 3 🫪) and some fruit. Perfect 👌🏼

Had our morning brief. No teams up for hoola hooping today. We had our first Sh*tbox medal handed out to a team that’s car sadly died, Loose Nuts went up and collected their medal. They’ll enjoy the rest of the rally as passengers in one of their buddy groups cars

No major issues with our team this morning when leaving although At it again had a slight window malfunction with the front passenger window being stuck half way down. They managed to forde it up manually.

Heading to Cobar, 131km from Louth. Most of us with little fuel. 12km’s out and Stupid Is has 0 range left but are still pushing it into town and our fuel alarm keeps going off with 6km’s to go and our range is at 19km. Easy peasy!

Stopped for fuel at Cobar and had a bit of time to walk around. First stop, IGA for more Honey Soy Chips as Tina was having withdrawals. The small packet for lunch didn’t touch the sides

Walked down the road and got a hot drink as it’s a bit fresh in town today.

Met most of the team at the big Cobar sign, got a pic then continued on our way to Mount Hope Hotel for a bevy, 161km from Cobar

The view from Mount Hope was stunning. Had a drink and some lunch and then headed off to Euabalong Royal Hotel for another stop.

Had our photo taken with Shazza and Warnie then went inside to warm up by the fire. The team enjoyed another drink then headed off toward Lake Cargellico for some pics. (With Ian deciding to catch a bus and meet us there 😉)

Headed down to the boat ramp at Lake Cargellico and on the way we drove past 2 little boys waving and jumping around so we threw them some of our frozen friends bracelets that we had made.

We all parked down on the boat ramp, got the drone out and took some pics. Unfortunately Rae wasn’t in them and she had to duck up the road to get some supplies.

We drove back down the same street and the 2 little boys came running back outside waving and showing us they had their bracelets on 🥰

Along the way Peabell ran out of fuel before we could make it town to fill up. That’s when those Jerry cans come in handy. We still had another hour and a half into Narrandera from here.

We all made it to a petrol station to fill up and finish the final leg through town and to our destination.

Got into Narrandra around 7:30pm.
Was dark and cold. We were told there were only cold showers here, so absolutely no chance of either of us having an ice cold shower on this ice cold winters night. (We later found out the disabled restroom/shower had hot water so you could imagine the line up for that one!)

Dinner wasn’t the best tonight, we got the last bits of some food but the poor people behind us had to wait another 45mins for more food to be cooked.

We also had a visitor for dinner tonight, Macca’s wife, Jan. Jan got a hotel room for the night and came in to camp to meet everyone. Then the lucky buggers got to spend the night in a warm room, comfy bed with hot water!!

Set up our campsite, frozen from doing that we decided to head inside where it was warm and sat around the table with our buddy group exchanging more stories.
Walked outside where everyone was playing rally games around the fire.
We had a quick look but decided to head to bed as we were heading out a little earlier in the morning.
The boys concerned with Rae sleeping in the car, they decided they should check on her every 1-2 minutes, opening the door or shining the torch in her face or simply just tapping on the window asking “are you ok Rae?” are you ok Rae?”.
It was very entertaining 🤣 They finally stopped long enough for Rae to get some sleep!

Raelene Loomes

16/07/2026

It’s not too late to get on board!!
The rally might be almost over but we have a bit more time to raise as much funds as possible.
Any donation over $2 is tax deductible and your support means everything to us.
Thank you 🩵🚙❄️

We're thrilled to announce that we're taking part in Sh*tbox Rally 2026 - Autumn! We’ll be hitting the road in our $1,500-or-less Sh*tbox, driving from Port Douglas to Melbourne on an unforgettable 7-day adventure. It’s not just about the drive—it’s about making a real difference in the figh...

16/07/2026

If there’s a KFC around, we will find it