Marysville for lunch.
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:08 am
Today Mother Nature forgot that it was still Winter and gave us a beautiful Spring day a week early. (Winter here finishes at the end of this month)
Three of us decided to make the most of it and do a ride up to Marysville for lunch.
There was Steve (Boxerboy) on his R100RS , Anne on her new Guzzi and myself on my R1150R.
This first pic is Anne's Breva and my Roadster outside Steve's house all ready to hit the road.
I had the map in my tailbag just in case we get lost.
We had been riding for about an hour when we came across our first roadkill...a wombat right on the middle of the road..and still fresh.
Steve and I thought we would do the right thing and move it off the road just in case another rider was to hit it.
Before we knew it we were at Marysville...This is the main street..The leaf-less trees are a bit of a give-away that it's still Winter here.
We had lunch at the local bakery and chose the outside seating.
Anne had something healthy while Steve had a meat pie and snot-block (vanilla slice)..and I had a meat pie and custard tart...and coke..
That's either a very big meat pie or a very small custard tart.
Just a quick pic showing off my Boxer Cup shirt....cheers!
While eating lunch the sounds of Spring was all around us..First a black bird with yellow eyes came hopping by.
Then came a black and white magpie.
Above us were lots of colorful Rosella's...this one was bright red.
The bright flowers and bee's also thought that Spring was here.
After lunch we took a short ride up to Stevenson's falls...a local waterfall..we had to park our bikes and do a 15 minute walk through the bush.
This is the walking track...We could hear the waterfall in the distance.
Getting close now.
There she is.
It was so warm ( 25C / 77F ) today I felt like jumping in the water to cool off...but didn't.
Here we are now back on the road heading for Reafton..I rode ahead and took a couple of pics as Anne and Steve came past.
Seeing these signs always brings a smile to a motorcyclist's face.
I'm back on my bike and catching up to Anne.
We came to this T intersection where we should turn right and Steve said let's check out the resevoir...so we did.
This is up on the dam wall looking back to where we came.
Check out that amazing sky.
This is looking out over one of Melbourne's water supplies.
We stopped for fuel before heading off home.
Here's one last pic of Anne on our way home.
Oh yeah...Remember that wombat that we moved off the center of the road...This is where he ended up...He's a big bugger isn't he.
DJ
Three of us decided to make the most of it and do a ride up to Marysville for lunch.
There was Steve (Boxerboy) on his R100RS , Anne on her new Guzzi and myself on my R1150R.
This first pic is Anne's Breva and my Roadster outside Steve's house all ready to hit the road.
I had the map in my tailbag just in case we get lost.
We had been riding for about an hour when we came across our first roadkill...a wombat right on the middle of the road..and still fresh.
Steve and I thought we would do the right thing and move it off the road just in case another rider was to hit it.
Before we knew it we were at Marysville...This is the main street..The leaf-less trees are a bit of a give-away that it's still Winter here.
We had lunch at the local bakery and chose the outside seating.
Anne had something healthy while Steve had a meat pie and snot-block (vanilla slice)..and I had a meat pie and custard tart...and coke..
That's either a very big meat pie or a very small custard tart.
Just a quick pic showing off my Boxer Cup shirt....cheers!
While eating lunch the sounds of Spring was all around us..First a black bird with yellow eyes came hopping by.
Then came a black and white magpie.
Above us were lots of colorful Rosella's...this one was bright red.
The bright flowers and bee's also thought that Spring was here.
After lunch we took a short ride up to Stevenson's falls...a local waterfall..we had to park our bikes and do a 15 minute walk through the bush.
This is the walking track...We could hear the waterfall in the distance.
Getting close now.
There she is.
It was so warm ( 25C / 77F ) today I felt like jumping in the water to cool off...but didn't.
Here we are now back on the road heading for Reafton..I rode ahead and took a couple of pics as Anne and Steve came past.
Seeing these signs always brings a smile to a motorcyclist's face.
I'm back on my bike and catching up to Anne.
We came to this T intersection where we should turn right and Steve said let's check out the resevoir...so we did.
This is up on the dam wall looking back to where we came.
Check out that amazing sky.
This is looking out over one of Melbourne's water supplies.
We stopped for fuel before heading off home.
Here's one last pic of Anne on our way home.
Oh yeah...Remember that wombat that we moved off the center of the road...This is where he ended up...He's a big bugger isn't he.
DJ
