The Bruthen brewery trip photo ops you didn't see

Terrific ride lots of fun but I'm still waiting for the dirt sections. :)
These are all after I left the group at Lake Glenmaggie.

The Glenmaggie Tree
(Google the Wanaka Tree and you will see what I'm getting at)


I don't know who Old Joe is but I would love to thank him for building such a nice gravel road (and thanks for the tip Glitch)


I stopped at the lookout above Tyers to check the view and who should go past but Apehanger Man and twenty of his hairiest smelliest mates. The embarrassing part was that there was a guy on a Triumph Explorer amongst them.


W2 track up on the ridge towards Rawson. Marked as a lookout but 2km down the road there is just a parking area and a picnic table (nice shady spot for lunch or a break though)


There had to be a Thompson Dam photo


Explains why I have never seen a GS on the South Face Road I guess.


By the time I got to the bridge my legs needed some exercise.


477km for the day got home at 7.
 

glitch

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mmmmyumyum!!
Certainly took the long way home, aye? :drool:
Love the shot of Old Joe...and come to think of it, never done it E->W myself...this is nice!

Flunked a new shortcut to a shortcut to bypass Bairnsdale as we just made it on the juice in the tank and Briagolong/ Boisdale? was shut off by the cops for some reason (event/ accident??) on Satdee.

I'll post a map once I know where we went.
As Nev had promised, the Cowwarr Rd. was good, only a few potholes here and there...but copped a few denture-busters on the Grand Ridge Rd. today.
:doh::bs
 
mmmmyumyum!!
..but copped a few denture-busters on the Grand Ridge Rd. today.
:doh::bs

There were a couple on the Tanjil Bren - Vespers part of the way back as well. Mainly the join between where road repairs were starting and the seal.

I very nearly increased the dead wildlife count on the way up to Tanjil Bren between the two hairpins. Came within 6 inches or so of clobbering a female Lyrebird who jumped off the bank right in front of me. ABS works!
 

dougman1

Part of the furniture
Lake Glenmaggie.

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Bruthen coffee stop. AM Sunday.

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I never know where we are... so here's a pic of that!

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The little moto compressor doing it's thing

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Gippsland is Touring Paradise, with long flowing back country roads, many dirt road connectors and it's quite scenic in parts too.

What a great weekend. :clap: :clap:

Bloody hell, Jo and the RACV truck nearly beat me home. Total care, it's a must have!

Thanks to all for a fantastic time ! :lao
 

glitch

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I never know where we are... so here's a pic of that!

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:bs:bs:thumbs:



Gippsland is Touring Paradise, with long flowing back country roads, many dirt road connectors and it's quite scenic in parts too.
What a great weekend. :clap: :clap:

Oh, is it ever!!
That Stradbroke-Gormandale Rd. was a new one for me, as was the Scales Rd. through the pine-plantations and the Calignee area.
Some sweet, mixed d/s riding there !!


Never did that School Rd. where Jo got the flat, either....what a neat, little cut-through from Boolara to Thorpdale :so

On a clear day, those views from Mt. Tassie should be stumping, right across South Gippy to the Prom! :eek:
Agreed, great weekend :thumbs:
 

glitch

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Even the "Fat Controller" at Puffing Billy's terminus @ Gembrook jumped in, checking with the BullAnt crew in Bruthen:
"Beer in the fridge? There's a pack of pissheads heading your way!!"

Old cap, new phone
:wink::lol:


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A quick stop at the Moondarra Dam, Big Rob and Goodie


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This time lacking the boinger-popping bathtub-sized potholes...cutting across to Cowwarr. Great to see the bush recovering... finally.... after those horrendous bushfires of ...2006?
This is all new growth in the pics below (safe a few, old black knarlies that somehow survived the fires)


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Looking into the Heyfield Flats


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An XT leading a Husky...Doug and Brad.


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"Professor Gadget" :wink: gearing up at the Cowwarr Weir.
What a piece of kit this jigger is!! :eek:

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Not even warmed up yet...but there's BS thick 'n fast.


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....while others are cooking up something entirely different...LUNCH!



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Saturday = bath-day! Even for the pooches!


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Full of it!! Lunch, that is!


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A little more gravel and a cut across to Lake Glenmaggie, with K1W1 following Big Rob, turning homewards again.


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nev

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Never did that School Rd. where Jo got the flat, either....what a neat, little cut-through from Boolara to Thorpdale :so

I recognised it. Sir Francis led us astray through there a couple of years ago on a weekend away to Toora.
 

glitch

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I'll jump!

I'll tells, I'LL JUMP!!


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Of note was the closed-by-a-roadblock Boisdale-Briagolong stretch (found the reason) , which made us detour via Valencia Creek.
Another "road-found" was a shortcut to a shortcut through the north of Bairnsdale to bypass all+any tourist and commercial traffic.
Wy Yung to Granite/ halfway-to-Sarsfield is a sweet, windy and scenic ride along the ridges before hitting the well-policed B500 again.



Ohhh...the Bullant...yeah, well....:drool: ...and the Piano Bridge Stout is still as good as ever!

Good beer...at the best time of the day....at a great place!
Nothing more needed!


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Ohhh...she's telling the boyz!!



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And the LISTEN! :killingme

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Can't keep that up for long...



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...back to normal :bs


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Willo getting stuck into the Liquid Gold
(he'll grow a bloody halo next week, watch it!) :bees::killingme


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How about Shift+Shiftier on the other table?:wink::bs


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Things turn serious when Willo pulls out the lippie :eek::eek:


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...and those look like the last coherent utterings from Professor Gadget...:whistle:



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"Step" and "Sidestep".....or "Kick" and "Sidekick"? W-)
ONE WORD____TROUBLE!!! :doh:


The shonky look of innocence...

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...and the real thing! :bang::bs


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No hope that that'll shut 'em up...


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Last one "standing"


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glitch

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Terrific ride lots of fun but I'm still waiting for the dirt sections. :)
These are all after I left the group at Lake Glenmaggie.

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Maybe one of those days you can make a weekend out of it....:wink::so

Aaaand...sorry for the highjack. But might as well make a whole yarn out of it :bow:
 
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