NIGE Motorcycle Club

Tim the Toolman took a few cronies for a bit of a blat up the putty road to our favourite Singleton Pub.
Beers were drunk, stories were told and then we came home 🙂

Berowa Waters Ferry crossing, the first shot of Spaceman on a ride and TNT on his new wheels.

Gazza informed us that the Half Way Roadhouse on Putty Road had burned down and so we lunched at Windsor after discovering that the Sackville Ferry had broken down. Sideways (aka Trailer) was so excited by the news that he forgot to check that his feet still touched the ground 🙂

Parked outside the burned out roadhouse for a break, TNT’s pretty blue handgrips were turning him numb 🙂

Yep, it sure is closed but the toilets were something to behold 🙁

Outside the ‘no longer famous’ Cockfighters Tavern at Bulga where Killswitch sneaks carefully up on his brand spanking new CBF 1000 (that is now NOT covered by warranty 🙂 )

Spaceman and Trailer Bob outside the rooms.

Undercover for the bikes. Killswitch got an earlier start.

Big Gazza doing a pre-flight.

What happens to a ST mirror whan you forget how long your legs are.

Breakfast at Jerrys and then everyone headed home.

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Beautiful day. SMS tells me that Killswitch in out with ‘a sore ankle’. So much for ‘rain, hail or shine’. In the words of the immortal…. “MAN UP!” You only need one leg to ride a bike.
Brizzer and Sideways were up to the task, so we headed off through ‘the Bong”, to Freemans then on to Cessnock Airport Cafe for morning tea. Off through the wineries to Broke, and on to Wollembi for a cold drink. Along the twisties to Kulnura where Brizzer left to see a mate. Sideways and I went home via Yarramalong. A great ride with some great fellows. Let’s do it all again soon.
Mohawk

Is that better?

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Left my luxurious cabin at Queenscliff and headed to the Sorrento Ferry.

Much flasher that the Kangaroo Island Ferry, both ends open so it is a drive on – drive off affair. Also much cheaper with a proper motorcycle price.

Was trying to decide which way to head home but after spending tooooo much time already on the Princes Hwy with tooooo many competitors, decided to head through the mountains to Bright.

I think I will continue my country odyssey tomorrow.

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Well, even though I turned 100 today, not one rider turned up for my ride, they must have been off on the splitter ride 🙁

Robe to Mount Gambier, still in SA but not for much longer. No beer tonight, dined in luxury at Maccas and now trying to plan the remaining route home while still hitting some highlights.

There are some really great bike roads with very little traffic around this area of South Australia, has reminded me that I am a bike rider and not a tourist.

Looking forward to the GOR.

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Well, what can I say?

Spent the day being driven around the island without really seeing much of anything.

For a place that is promoted as nature’s wonderland, it was almost impossible to spot anything that was alive. The enormous koala population was decimated during the 2007 bushfires and I think the other purported critters are imaginary.

This was, seriously, as close as you were allowed to get to the seals at Seal Bay, it was $27.50 for the privilege of being this ‘close’.

Next was the ‘Birds of Prey’ presentation, at least they were alive if not free. I did see a kookaburra do an amazing thing with its head, basically the body can be going in many directions but the head will stay perfectly still, quite bizzare to watch.

Moving right along to ‘Remarkable Rocks’ that weren’t really.

Final destination was ‘Admiral’s Arch’ that was exactly like it looked in photos.

Have booked on the 10:30am ferry to leave the island, not sure where I will get to tomorrow.

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