Cormanus hits the road

[Cormanus]

Thanks for all the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.

Ferret, it looks desolate mostly because it's as dry as chips. At least I hope that's 'was' as we've had some reasonable rain since I got home. It's not actually all that far from civilisation and petrol stations. I got from home to Kyogle on two tanks easily and the only reason I ran it close to the limit was because I chose to take a bit of a risk. I could easily have filled up some way earlier. From Rathdowney in Queensland to Kyogle in NSW across the Lions Rd is a mere 68 kms and there a petrol stations in both places. It passes through cleared farming land on the Queensland side and then passes into forested national park on the NSW side of the border. It then drops into more farming land. Later on in the trip, distances between drinks meant a bit of finesse was required to make sure we weren't left freezing in the middle of nowhere wondering why we weren't carrying an extra tank. But it was only planning; we were never seriously out of reach of petrol.

ClassicVW, here's a picture of the 'collection box' from an earlier post. You may be able to see the little 'ears' a bit below the top. There's a grate on top and you put the cash in there. I suspect it plummets to the very bottom of the can. I had to get off the bike to put money in it and there was no sign that enterprising youth had done anything to block it. I'm sure if it were in a built-up area there would be more enthusiasm for raiding it.



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