So, I wasn't that excited about the thought of a night score event around the streets of Athelstone, but Clive & Marion had made their special World Orienteering Day activity sound so enticing that I actually managed to make it across town by 6pm, along with 40+ other people.
There were 30 controls just within the Thorndon Park picnic area, and each represented a country (as did the competitors although we didn't have to match up with anything else) and this was great fun, also hilarious, as all the headlamps went every which way from the mass start. I knew it was going to be possible to get all the controls within the 45 min limit (this only took Simon 16 min) and although I therefore tried to find an efficient way of doing so, I kind of failed at that, taking a suboptimal route between/around the artificial lakes. But I still managed to come 4th because not everyone managed to go to all the controls they thought they'd been to...
A truly multicontinental affair, which could only have been improved by the presence of a mutant bunny:
http://worldorienteeringday.com/index.php/rabbit-t...