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Sunday, 27 November 2011

Day 10
Well off we go to Northam, first stop we go to was Freemantle.  We had a bit of a hiccup with the support vehicle could'nt find a park.  Some of us just went into the shopping centre and had a coffee and lunch, Hitower and Mary headed off to the Airport.  Some of us had Crayfish for lunch mmmmm!!!, it was a very warm day, we ended up at Northam around 5.30p.m. all except for one (Craig) stayed at the Shamrock.  The support trailer lost its brakes today, might I say at this stage Enza is doing a fantastic job driving the car with the trailer.
A few of us had spa rooms but we were all too tired to even have one (a spa) .  Oh well off to Kalgoorlie tomorrow.

Saturday, 19 November 2011


Day 9 -- Nothing yet everyone is still in bed. I will come back later Well here we are, some people went off to the Brusselton beach today, some went off to other places, as the Rally was over officially, some went into Margaret River Town, others stayed at the Caravan Park.  Craig went off to Perth to catch up with a friend, he would catch up with us in Northam.   We had also organised a Barbecue at the bottom of the Caravan Park for 6.30p.m. Thanks to Hitower for organising a slideshow of the photos so far.   Everyone came to the Barbecue there were speeches, dancing, food, laughing, talking everyone had a great time, we were all aware that tomorrow it was back on those bikes to start the trek back home.  Rex, Cherie, Peter, Grace, Dougie, Lindsay, Jo and Mel were heading off to Perth for a couple of days then on to Southern Cross then onto ???  they were not going to be back until first week in December.  We were off to Northam tomorrow.  Hitower and Mary are flying home tomorrow.


Friday, 18 November 2011

Day 8
Well what a Thunder Ride, there was bikes everywhere (I'm just going to have lunch and I will be back)
HELLO       Put it on Auto
Well I'm back, some people went off the the factory outlets today, chocolate, cheese, icecream, some went into Bunbury to get new tyres and George's Bike is still having ongoing problems.  A few of us had massages to die for!!!!fantastic, so good I'm going back again tomorrow.  Alan flew in on Friday I forgot to mention and hired a car.  All in all we have 36  on the Adventure.
MMM!!! What happens on the bus stays on the bus



 


Day 7
Was a day of everyone going off, some to the beach, some to the ice creamery, some to the shops, some looking for massages, some to the rally site, all in all another great day, capped off by a night of dancing, dancing, and more dancing.   Everyone seemed to be washing their bikes, getting all the bugs off and rain spots.. I will add more photos soon.   

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Day 6 ---- Yeh  we are just about there  Off to Margaret River
Well we started out again WA time everyone was up before 6.00a.m. so some headed for Mackas some had brekkie in their rooms, some just kept sleeping.  We all knew it was going to be an easy day, BUT it wasn't.
Tony and I had to go to the dealer in Albany 8.00a.m. to get a new tyre for Tony's Bike.  Robert also had to get a new battery fitted.  Around about 9.45a.m. we were off and running to Margaret River.  There was a couple of groups riding on, we met up with one group at the Tall Trees at Valley of the Giants near Walpole.
Well what an experience the tallest trees ever -- The Tingle Trees they have a 600 metre walk of steel trusses. Quite an experience.  If the photos are not  on here tonight I will get them on in the next couple of days.  From there we headed to Walpole to fuel up and lunch stop.  Might I say the rain has not stopped from The Valley of the Giants to Walpole.   From Walpole we headed off to Margaret River, through Pemberton, Nannop, Witchicliffe then finally reaching Margaret River around 6.00p.m.  We were out on the main road for a while as we could'nt find the Riverview Tourist Park.  We eventually found it, when the support vehicle came along and punched in the NavMan.   The Whole time from Valley of the Giants we were rained on, rained on, rained on, and rained on some more.  Well we were saturated through. After sorting out the accomodation we headed off for Zanadu Winery, where the first nights Rally was taking place.  Announcement was made that the 2012 Rally would be held in Canberra.  And a Big Happy Birthday to my gorgeous daughter Bree. XXX

Wednesday, 16 November 2011


Day 5 Off to Albany
Well we all seem to wake up on Western Australian Time at 4.30a.m. and we wait for Brekkie.  The days events are off to Ravenswood, bit windy, great riding after the straight roads of yesterday.  Well what happens when you don't do what you preach.  You run OUT OF PETROL  Guess Who has been telling us for the last 6 months----We must fuel up the night before, head off with a new tank----Hi.......... Ran Out Of Petrol.
We ended up at Ravenswood, lovely riding, bit dusty, but great roads.   From Ravenswood we set off for Jerramungup for more fuel.  Day 5 saw Jo and Cherie join us, they flew into Esperance late last night.  We got to the dealer and dropped off Bambi's Bike and some new tyres for some of our guys.  Booked into the Motel
where Tony discovered he needed a new back tyre, alas back to the dealer.   Well everyone has done really well, we have done roughly 3300 thats a lot of miles.  We head off to Margaret River in the morning for another 500 ks.



Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Day 4 
From Madura (Wolf's Creek) to Esperance
Wolf's Creek (Madura)
What a magnificent ride this was ---- 90 Miles of Straight Road Riding,

 the longest straightest piece of road in Australia and we have rode on it.   We woke up to roughly 4.30a.m. as we all thought it was around 6.00 - 6.30a.m. we all forgot we had gained a couple of hours on the crossing from South Australia to Western Australia.  After another big stretch on the Nullabor and running into more Harleys every petrol stop along the way.  We finally made it to Norseman where we had lunch at a nice Cafe.  We headed off to Esperance, where our expectations were not disappointed.
This is where Sky Lab ended up!!!