NIGE Motorcycle Club

Beautiful day, cooler down south. Earliest ferry today was 12 noon and so decided to grab a quick haircut before leaving Victor Harbour. That head is just getting worserer and more worserer.

Did I mention that it was short 🙂

Found an area in South Australia where they grow something besides wheat and had to stop and take a photo. Unfortunately, this was on a corner and just as I pulled back on to the road a car came screaming around the corner and nearly collected me, it was VERY close.

Deep breath, checked my undies and headed back down to the ferry terminal at Cape Jervis.

Quite an expensive trip, $127 each way for me and the ‘Bird and after talking to some locals here on the island, they pay the same rates as everyone else every time they want to come or go. Semi trailers carrying freight, fuel etc; are charged thousands of dollars to cross but EVERYTHING comes to the island via ferry.

The ‘Bird did get special treatment though and they tied it down just in case.

The water was a beautiful colour and glass smooth (my phone camera could not nearly do it justice) and there were even a few critters along the way.

Kangaroo Island is a VERY big island (150km long and between 900m and 57km wide) and I travelled 60kms to Kingscote and my digs at the Seaview Guesthouse.

Got organised and went for a ride to Emu Bay where you can get down onto the beach and fang along for a hairy ride. Very similar to Cable Beach in Broome and people do come down to swim and have a sunset meal (minus the camels :-] ).

There is a free tidal pool across the road from the guesthouse.

Doing a tour of the southern section of the island tomorrow so will really have my tourist hat on ……. stop it …… I’m getting excited!

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For those members unable to make the other ride heading north, I propose an alternate ride heading south.

All riders attending should meet at the Port Broughton Mobil and be ready to depart with full tanks at 8am, rain, hail or heatwave.

We hope to take in a bit of a ferry ride and a lap or two around an island, maybe Kangaroo Island.

Hopefully this can be the best turnout for the last few months, see you there.

ps: This may be an opportune time to mention that club fees are now due and money can be deposited directly into my bank account. Looking forward to the cash.

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Doing some washing and general cleaning up around the place in preparation for departure to Cape Jervis to catch the ferry to Kangaroo Island (where hopefully it is a bit cooler).

Did my usual walk to Port Broughton this morning and was amazed to find a pair of headphones I had lost while walking two weeks ago. I spent ages looking for them at the time because I had no others and nowhere here to buy new ones. They had been washed in with the tide and after a quick rinse in fresh water, away they went!

Incredibly hot as this part of South Australia is experiencing the first official heat wave EVER recorded in November.

So hot in fact that I went for my first swim since arriving here. I had forgotten how incredibly salty the water is and I could not have drowned if I tried. I was so buoyant that I could easily float on my back keeping my feet and hands almost completely out of the water.

Pretty good spot for a clothes line.

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Had my tattoo re-coloured and some extra work done when I was in BH

that is what I landed on when this happened

and why I might end up with one of these.

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Graham’s funeral will be at Palmdale at 1:30 next Thursday, followed by a wake at Tuggerah Lakes Golf Club, Shelly Beach. Regards Mohawk.

The Brown family has requested that mourners not bring their motorcycles to Thursday’s funeral. I know that we all understand and respect their feelings. Brian

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