For the fourth year in a row, the job of feeding 60 trail riders for long days in the saddle has fallen on a particularly chirpy group of men from the Alexandra Lions Club "catering division".
The boundary riders eat breakfast early, at 7am, so the the cooks have to start cooking about 5.45am.
The kitchen cowboys are so good at their job, Boundary Riders trail boss Tony Roderique won't let any of the other trail bosses get down on them.
"They are really, really good.
"They really enjoy what we are doing, although they are sick of horses," Mr Roderique said yesterday.
No-one had complained, unless they were a horse.
"The horses go down in weight and the people go up in weight," Mr Roderique said.
The boundary riders are now camping in John McRae's front paddock on Glendhu Station, after spending several days earlier this week at Tim Scurr's place in the Cardrona Valley.
The Alexandra Lions Club has made a bit of a name for itself over the years for its catering.
This Saturday, the club has a double-booking - the cavalcade breakfast at Glendhu plus the Otago Central Rail Trail duathlon - but everything would be taken care of, the cooks said.
Cooking for events was a great chance to earn money for various projects, which included building a replica railway station for Alexandra, building a camp site for the air cadets corps, building a storage shed for a holiday camp at Bannockburn for children with immunodeficiencies, and supporting the Coastguard both for work on the Clutha River and work on Lake Dunstan.
The club turned over about $100,000 every four years just from its cooking activities, Dave Ramsay estimated.
The Alexandra Lions Club's next big catering job after this weekend's efforts will be providing a lunch for 500 at the Easter Bunny Shoot.
Two weekends ago, they spent all weekend preparing food for 1500 people at Vincent County motorcycle rally at Galloway.
All nine trails participating in the annual Otago Goldfields Cavalcade converge on Wanaka on Saturday for a street parade at noon, followed by a community celebration on Pembroke Park.
