adelaide to victor harbour
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 8:45PM After a fantastic weekend of sight seeing, eating and drinking the plan was to drop my bike off at the bmw place, have a bit of a poke around while it was being worked on, then head down to victor harbour for the evening.
waterfall gully, adelaide
Things were looking good, i managed to get to the bmw place on time and without getting lost, they lent me a brand new 800 road bike to get around on (it had 17km on the clock), wal turned up and we were off sight seeing with the first port of call wal's uncle's place to say hello and have a cup of tea. While there we did a quick revise of the plan in that we would go and have a look at the beach and depending on how long my bike was going to be, maybe go to harndorf.
The plan was sound but there was one, small, seemingly insignificant detail, that stimied the whole thing. The weather.
On the road out to brighton things started to look a bit grim and by the time we got there it was bogging down and blowing a gale. There was nothing else for it, we had to find a cafe and console ourselves with coffee and cake. From the safety of the cafe we devised plan 37b, that was we would just go back to town, park the bikes, and stay under cover.
rememberance arch, brighton beach
The ride back into town was not very pleasant but by the time we got there the weather had changed again, promting wal to comment that if i didn't like the weather i should just wait 10 minutes. We wandered around for a while, had some lunch and did a spot of shopping. The guys fom bmw then called to say my ike was ready so we were mobile once again.
I have to say the guys had done a geat job, thanks ben and the team, my bike was purring like a kitten and for the first time ever it was cleaner than wals. This sadly didn't last very long as about 25 minutes into our trip to victor we rode into the worst weather either i, with my limited riding experience, or wal, with his somewhat more extensive experience, had ever ridden in, or would care to ride in again. It was also some of the worst weather south australia has seen for a while. It was utterly, utterly diabolical. Torrential rain, some hail and wind gusts of 90kmph while riding knobby tyres on the road, triffic stuff and bloody scary. There were two instances where we had to stop as the rain was so heavy it was impssible to see.
By the time we got to victor our suits were soaked, our gloves were soaked and we were very cold. Fortunately however, the gortex suit liners did their job and we were dry. We headed for the first motel we saw and they were lovely, they had room and despite wal dripping all over the reception, they very kindly offered us some space under cover for our bikes. After checking we set about rigging up a system for drying the suits as quickly as possible. From there it was hot showers all round and another review of our plans.
improvised suit drying rack. it was very effective
It appeared that there was another huge front due to come through tomorrow and as niether of us wanted to go through that again we decided we would spend two nights in victor, not do the great ocean road which was due to have shocking weather for the rest of the week, and come home via the murray to avoid the worst of it.
our exact location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-35.552,138.6218&ll=-35.552,138.6218&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
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