Roads Less Travelled - WSBK Round 1

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ES, thanks mate.

Day2.

[url=https://goo.gl/maps/6gfZm]The Plan

Strewth, the sparrows have broken wind and it's morning already. Short night!





Today I will ride the Brown Mountain Road. This road runs west from Bega through dairy country. Good surface with some nice easy sweepers. Initially a
nice gradual rise to the foothills of the Brown Mountain.


A bloke doesn't need to be particularly observant to note that the weather behind looks better than that ahead where the cloud is pressing down on the mountains and getting more ominous by the minute. Could get interesting later in the day. Or maybe even sooner in the day!

Brown Mountain Road has sometimes been called Brown Underpants Road. It's the last 20kms where the riders interest and attention mounts. It better. Even for a conservative old codger like me that wonderful string of tight corners, without being hairpins, make for a cornering rhythm that leads to ever increasing lean angles. I can't stop myself. Left, then right, left, and maybe left again, right again and so on.....until the boot or peg touches down and jolts, or grinds, me back to reality. After all, boots are expensive!



I haven't mastered the Ferret "pictures on the run" technique so, sorry folks, the boot photo is all I have of Brown Underpants Road. Other considerations are leaf litter (in the season), timber trucks and caravans. But it's my lucky day and the road is good to me.
Joining the Monaro Highway I ride towards Bombala with the intent of proceeding down "The Bonang". The Bonang is a legendary road carving it's way through the mountains between the Snowy River National Park and Errinundra National Park. Timber country.

The Bonang has some good road (watch the leaf litter):

Some back country scenery:

Some corners:

(last three photos from a previous ride)

It also has a significant stretch of dirt and as I approach this the rain begins. While it is still a light drizzle I stop and put on wets and take a photo or two. I love this mountain country.




As I put on my wets two “trailes” scream past, riders just pulling back enough to check that I'm not in trouble. Thumbs up from me and they blast off. KTMs I think. No way I will catch them but I do learn something by following the lines they leave in the dirt.
On leaving the Bonang at Cann River I ride down the Highway in moderate rain. As I approach Sale the rain clears to overcast. Still warm enough though at around 25deg C. From Sale it’s a straightforward ride to my next camp at Woodside Beach. Woodside is not as picturesque as Gillards but it is interesting as it sits at the southern end of Ninety Mile Beach. Named well before Oz went to the metric system. Yes, this beach stretches, with little variation, for ninety miles.


After another meal of bacon and beans (or was it beef stew?) and a couple of nips of Bundy to keep the terrors of the night away, I sleep the night through. Like a log, as they say.
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The photo limit, while understandable, is frustrating. Particularly as it can be circumvented by not putting text between photos and stringing them together. Day 3 to come.