Over The Shoulder....Rides through the Decades

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2017_Hood3...Beaconsfield Backblocks

An early-winter ride to check out some close-by gravel backroads....and maybe chuck in a water-crossing or so :so

Pete's GPS popping its seams


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Whaddayaknow ! :eek:


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Not a lot of pics, but a great day out in the gravel


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2017_ Rhineland + Baltics, Germany (no bikes)

September....and a hectic time spend with family affairs in Europe.
No travel as such, but still enough time for the odd micro-break along the way.


Monheim/ Rhineland/Germany


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Stralsund, Baltics, Germany....Old Town


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More pics and a bit of a yarn, maps etc.
 

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2017_Slip-Slidin' Satdee

Early October, some sunshine...
...and a rainy week had settled the dust. And raised the water levels :D

Dry-Foot-Doug...


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...and some discoveries around Yea.


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Not a lot of pics, but....
 

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2017_ Baby GS

Early November...time to check out the just-released 310GS, the Baby-BM.
Doncaster BMW came to the party , big thanks across to them. :thumbs:


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2017_NZ-Northland....Boulders, Beaches and Bloody Good Times :)

Making the most of Melbourne Cup Day, it was off to NZ's fantastic North for some gravel and beach adventuring.
Mid-November...and what a hoot is was! :slobb:slobb:glu


With a bursting wish-list in hand...


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we were led astray by some locals...


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...stared into some stumping sunsets

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...and laughed-till-it-hurt into a night of candle-lights in the hills above the roaring EastCoast surf.



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found ENDLESS ever-swinging ridges....



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and bursts of colour in unlikely places


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Coastal delights...


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Some impromptu Macarena...


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...and more Macarena, this time on the bikes :)


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Whopping sandhills as the sun went down.


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From NZ-history...


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...to a stunning little church at "the edge of the world"...


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....to riding some strange, wet "roads"

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Going for a "dip at the tip" of NZ


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Stunning landscapes...


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...stunning roads


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and stunning vistas


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Some heavy-hearted Goodbyes as another fabulous NZ-Adventure comes to an end :-(


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Sign into an eye-watering 500+ pic blockbuster...


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...RIGHT HERE!!



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2017_Xmas lunch at Alexandra

All roads lead to Alex when there's a feed to be had...

The Old Warby Hwy...

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...or some backroads around Buxton.


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Oops...


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Great countryside around the Goulburn Flats out the back of Alexandra



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Throw in some iffy jokes... :clap::bs


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...and you got yourself a cracker of a Christmas lunch.




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2017_Christmas Day Wander

Just a short half-day excursion through the neighbourhood to enjoy the peace and quiet of Christmas Day.



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One of the many Beenak Roads...


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Into Kurth Kiln Park...the back way.



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Solitude at Shiprock Falls


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NY 2018...lunch at the Wombat

From flooded Goulburn River Flats near Molesworth..


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...to some roads around Caveat...


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.... littered with debris after the storms....


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....and an overflowing Polly McQuinn....



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...for a happy meet with Geoff, the fire-warden at The Wombat, it's a ripper of a place!


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More pics and yarns over here!
 

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2018_Tassie Reloaded

Another two March/ April-weeks in the backblocks of the Apple Isle, WHOOPEE!! :thumbs::thumbs:
Roads, tracks, places, views and tucker to make you want to stay forever.

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Ben Lomond....eat your heart out...

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...and LOADS more surprises.


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From the Silica near Corinna....


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...to the Lockleys Rd. on the way to Cloudy Bay, South Bruny


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Red Knoll Lookout


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...and Junee Caves, Maydena


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Collins Cap just north of Hobart CBD


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The usual WestCoast breeze at Coutta Rocks


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Repulse Dam


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Upper Derwent with Clunys Lagoon


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The "Ringarooma GP track" :)

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Victoria Valley


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Dee Lagoon near Bronte Park

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Fun in the Styx Forest


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and time out at Blue Lake, near Pioneer



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The one that fell off the post...

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Little gem...near Pyengana


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Coastal views from South Sister

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Mirror Lake, South Bruny


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Where the river meets the sea...Arthur River Mouth


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Downtown Temma :bs


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For the whole box + dice, loads more pics and other adventures along the way, check in here ---->


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