A bit of a ride: back on the road

[Cormanus]

The better weather also meant I could hang my camera around my neck again.








Just after this bridge, we turned left on to the Omeo Highway and a pleasant ride on a good road through low alpine farmland for about 55 kms until we reached Mitta Mitta where we refuelled.

The road to Mitta Mitta

Jalalski’s bike was well loaded with Ventura bags, saddle bags and God knows what else. It was a bit of a struggle for him to get on as the Ventura bags made the load too high for him to stand on the footpeg and swing his leg over. Fortunately Jalalski is a younger man than either Pterodactyl or me and was agile enough to develop an elegant hop-step to get himself onto the bike. It never failed to make Pterodactyl laugh. I didn’t quite catch it here, but you can get a vague idea.


For around 96 kms from Mitta Mitta to just north of Omeo was—for me at least—the best road of the trip. It was twisty with generally gradual rise and fall. There was next to no traffic. The road was dry. It was well marked and, even better, on many a left-hand corner the vegetation had been cleared so you could see far enough ahead to be able to use as much of the road as you liked. Much of it wa the sort of low-alpine Australian bush I really like. Occasionally we raced alongside pretty streams. The only mild negative was the amount of bark on the road, probably from the storm the night before.






We had a comfort stop by one of the streams














And so it came to pass that we came to the Snug as a Bug Motel in Omeo, tired but very happy from a good day’s ride. Dinner was taken at the Golden Age Hotel, Omeo, in company with many another motorcyclist making the pilgrimage to Phillip Island.