nev
Super Térrarist
up to 30mm of rain was the forecast for Sunday. It was my first free weekend in over a month, and Jo would be working all weekend. I didn't bother making any plans to get out for a ride...
...until I woke up on Sunday morning and the sun was shining. I checked the BoM site. Should stay fine as long as I don't go too far north. I loaded a quick itinerary into the GPS, a 300-400km loop out to the west and north. Through Wildwood, and Sunbury, Gisbourne South, Gisbourne and New Gisbourne to Mt Macedon.
The summit of Mt Macedon was thickly clouded
A few minutes later, at the base of the mountain, Hanging Rock is bathed in the sun
Near Kyneton, the place where portable classrooms go to die
Most of the bluestone blocks used to build Melbourne were quarried around Malmsbury. In Malmsbury, everything is made from these stones, including the railway station.
Don't look under your bed for monsters, they meet up near Chewton.
The "Monster Meeting" was held here during the 1851 gold rush. Almost 15,000 gold miners met here to protest against taxes on miners. This was one of a series of events which eventually resulted in the Eureka Stockade rebellion.
Another Major Mitchell cairn near Faraday.
Lunch at the cafe in Redesdale, and then I ditched the rest the route I had planned in my GPS and started heading towards home, following my nose, and taking some roads and lanes I hadn't been down before.
About halfway between Lancefield and Tooborac, I came across a modern day Stonehenge
...until I woke up on Sunday morning and the sun was shining. I checked the BoM site. Should stay fine as long as I don't go too far north. I loaded a quick itinerary into the GPS, a 300-400km loop out to the west and north. Through Wildwood, and Sunbury, Gisbourne South, Gisbourne and New Gisbourne to Mt Macedon.
The summit of Mt Macedon was thickly clouded
A few minutes later, at the base of the mountain, Hanging Rock is bathed in the sun
Near Kyneton, the place where portable classrooms go to die
Most of the bluestone blocks used to build Melbourne were quarried around Malmsbury. In Malmsbury, everything is made from these stones, including the railway station.
Don't look under your bed for monsters, they meet up near Chewton.
The "Monster Meeting" was held here during the 1851 gold rush. Almost 15,000 gold miners met here to protest against taxes on miners. This was one of a series of events which eventually resulted in the Eureka Stockade rebellion.
Another Major Mitchell cairn near Faraday.
Lunch at the cafe in Redesdale, and then I ditched the rest the route I had planned in my GPS and started heading towards home, following my nose, and taking some roads and lanes I hadn't been down before.
About halfway between Lancefield and Tooborac, I came across a modern day Stonehenge