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.

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.

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.   

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

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.

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!!!

Day 3

 Hi Tower makes sure that everyone has a full tank of petrol  the night before, so we take off around 7.00 – 7.15a.m. as we did this morning heading off to Madura.  This was always going to be a bit of a test for all the riders and pillons.  Well they didn’t disappoint us, very big big day.  What a glorious day for riding, we headed to Ceduna to fuel up for the next take.  On the way to Yilata we took a break to visit with Luke Skywalker who was raising funds for the Starlight Foundation.  We had our photos taken with him, donations made into the tin and then off again. Well Yilata never took place because there was no Petrol any where.  Well the fund began most of us headed to the Nullabor pushing on Reserve and watching for the support vehicle to back us up when we run out, luckily only one person ran out twice!!!!! We stopped at the first petrol stop on the Nullabor where we all fueled up our tanks and our bellies and took off again for Border Village.

From Border Village when then headed to Madura (Wolf's Creek in disguise!!!)  We are not kidding you

you should have seen this place, the manager from hell, the rooms from hell, and the mice from hell.  

Lucky they had a clean swimming pool where the guys could cool off (because I can tell you tempers were pretty hot!!!!!!)

keeping up our glucose tolerance

Day 2   

We started the trip with 35 people, then Bill and Karren headed home today. We also had on board some special guest, such as Mannie, Henry the Hog and Winnie, hope they all enjoy themselves.

We woke up  to the ducks coming up to the back door of our Motel Rooms. Then we were roll called by our Time Keeper (Hi Tower) we had our group photo and then we headed 

Off  to Streaky Bay – minus one bike in the trailer poor Bambi’s bike wasn’t well.   Harley City will send the part to Esperance and the dealer there will fix it hopefully.   Okay we had a bit more drama with George’s Bike having a flat battery.  The support vehicle and rear road captain John kept pushing and pushing but they could’nt get the bike going (this was turning out to be a scene out of Wild Hogs) so being a Sunday it was a bit difficult to get a battery, but Enza to the rescue with her I Phone -- a new battery was found and  put in and George was off and running.

Never mind the mechanical business  the group headed off to Snowtown  (famous for bodies in the barrel) for some brekkie.  Well horror happened  NO  Snowtown shops are  open up until  Monday.  So off we go to Red Hill where we had breakfast, drinks and then off again to Kimba, where we had a group photo taken.  After lunch we headed off for Streaky Bay, but before we got there one more petrol stop at Border Village, and a cool drink then on to Streaky Bay.  What a beautiful spot. We got the courtesy bus into town for tea and a early night because it was going to be a big day tomorrow to Madura.  

DAY 1
We started at Harley City at 8.00a.m. on the dot!!!! We started with 20 so bikes and the magnificent support vehicle and tough and rough  looking trailer, then we  picked up a few bikes on the way from Caroline Springs.
Off we go to Ararat where our first fuel stop began.  We had one of our members (no name) try and become a 1% member. (Rebels bike club) Didn't go down too well!!!!   Having survived that we went onto our lunch stop at Nhill.   We tried to squeeze every minute out of the break, but alas it was back on the bikes and off to
Keith for a fuel stop.  Then it seemed like forever and ever until we reached Hahndorf at 6.00p.m. (WOW)
Big Ride Great Day Beautiful Weather Lovely People and we are off to bed to do it all again tomorrow.

You don't get to know about the party on tonight, we will fill you in when we get back.

Brunswick Hogs Margaret River Adventure

Well it's been nearly 12months in the making and we are just about ready to take off. I thought I would show you what used to be our Horse Float and has been transformed into a magnificent masterpiece.  6 months in the making, so many swear words, so much food, so much little sore fingers, so much time the boys have done a fantastic job (I didn't believe it was going to ever come about-----Here are some photos of the start to finish.  There are a lot of thank you's involved but we will leave that for later.  Here we go, feel free to come on board with the blog, comment if you want to, but most of all for the members and our families and friends at home you might get a bit of an idea whats going on out there on the biggest trip probably of our lives!!!!!!

We used to have horses--but now we have bikes.

No Horses in here anymore????

getting there slowly

At this stage the boys were feeling a bit happier
now wait the masterpiece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely magnificent (now I know Tony and John were not at the pub)

Now Where Are We Going >>

A :-  Brunswick VIC
B :-  Hahndorf Inn South Australia
C :-  Streaky Bay South Australia
D :-  Madura Western Australia
E :-  Esperance  Western Australia
F :-   Albany   Western Australia
G :-  Margaret River     Western Australia