It will be hard to top last year’s Mullum Show but that hasn’t stopped this year’s committee taking the grand show tradition of Mullumbimby and giving it a go on 10, 11 and 12 November.
There are a number of new events coming to town for 2023 including a trick riding show, motorbike barrel racing and the King Brown Camp Oven King.
Of course there will still be all the firm favourites from cooking cakes and jams to whose got the best looking fruit and veg. There are the traditional art and photography prizes as well as equestrian events and who has the best beef cattle in town.
The soft opening on Friday has free entry with stock horse events followed by trot- ting: the bar and barbecue will open about 3pm. Satur- day and Sunday will see the show jumping as well as the motorcycle jumping – neither of which is risk free.
‘There is a fully packed program over the weekend with trucks parading on Saturday arriving at 3.30pm followed by nonstop enter- tainment on the main stage and Saturday evening fire- works,’ said show president Mark Ward.
Tickets are available on the website www.mullum- bimbyshow.org.au and early purchase gets you a discount, otherwise they are available on the gate.
Tug-of-war
There is a $300 prize for the winners of the Chincogan Store Tug O’ War which is defined as ‘a sports event in which two teams test their strength by pulling against each other on opposite ends of a rope’.
It is free to enter and ‘gloves and a thick cotton shirt should be worn to help avoid rope burn’.
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