TT Day 5 - Cradle Mountain, Dove lake

This was another amazing day on the road, laving the beautiful Tullah lakeside lodge, visiting the majestic Mackintosh lake via and unplanned dirt detour to the picture postcard Cradle Mountain and Dove lake before navigating the twisties to the flatter easter part of Tasmania and our overnight accommodation in the Tamar Valley...beautiful.



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TT day 4 - more amazing roads., train rides and waterfalls.

Day 2 on the bike saw us nearly run out of petrol as we raced to Queenstown to catch a classic steam train, then hike to a waterfall before over nighting at the beautiful Tamar valley lake.

TT Day 3 - twisty roads, lake Pedder and Gordon dam

First day on the bikes saw us ride some amazing twisty roads in good weather visiting the Russell falls,lake Pedder and Gordon dam. It was an amazing first days riding in this heavenly place for riding.

TT Day 2 Hobart and Mt Wellington

Day 2 of the tour saw us enjoying the sights and tastes of Hobart...firstly with breakfast at the Salamanca Mkts , a run up the majestic Mt Wellington and finally dinner at a seafood restaurant on the water in Hobart. We also welcomed Dave and Geoff having ridden down from the Spirit of Tasmania. It was was a great prelude to the start of our tour the following but enjoy some great vision and stories.

Let the tour begin...Day 1 in Tasmania

Well day 1 began early with a plane flight and finished late for some,lost in Hobart..with a great shake down ride, interesting characters and beautiful roads in between...hope you enjoy

Tassie Tour Tid Bits

Its been a while since the last blog but we have been busy finishing the tour of a life time....2 weeks, 5,000kms, 12 amazing people and one awesome Island ...Tasmania.
The rough routes we follow are below...and a few tid bits to wet the appetite

Day 1- 4 on the bikes

Day 5-7 on bikes...fri/sat were day trips out of Hobart

 The following are a number of photo montages of this amazing trip and some titliations of the full daily videos to come..hope you enjoy










check out the following drone footage from a pilot still learning






then we had the next stage of 2,500km from Melbourne... the "Longway Home"

a small clip of Band of Bikers in the Mist as we left Mitta Mittta in the Victorian highlands heading for the Alpine way

The Hot Way round - February ride to Kyogle & Murwillumbah

So after a washout on our previous ride NOTHING was going to stop us riding this month and definitely not 42deg C for 400km!!
So with another 10 intrepid adventurers we set off to Beaudesert for coffee, Kyogle for lunch and Tumbalgum for desperately needed cold drinks.

getting ready to leave...with my drone hovering to get picture

It was great to see Steve's 6th bike ...a chopped honda XR 600...very nice. We also welcomed Andrew on yet another Honda 4.

Now this was the first outing of my new Mavic Pro Drone...unfortunately the departure footage was the only lot taken...just too hot :( but with our Tassie rodtrip coming up I needed to practice....

So got a good exit video with the Mavic pro drone as we made for beaudesert while the temperature was cooler.

After a heads up from John McG about a full maccas carpark we diverted to Every days coffee shop for some refreshment

With the temp rising we stopped at Rathdowney for some aqua and shade

hleigh baring some skine, Ray hydrating,dave looking good and John and Paul saying Hi

...then off climb  the Main range....lots of twisties and slippery tar snakes.

beautiful blue skies and an open road ahead...no one else silly enough to ride in this heat:)

  Another stop at the top of the main range for  a break and shade...and some "boot" shenanigans with John :)

so turned onto the Summer-land Way and into another blast of hot air....42deg at Kyogle but this was distracted by the beautiful sweeping roads into Kyogle...fuel up the bikes and cool down the riders at Kyogle pub.

After a long lunch in air conditioned surrounds...it was off to Murwillumbah on a beautiful twisty road but what did was this we discover to start the run......DIRT ....but only for a few hundreds metres then the twisties..

A great road but still not without its bumps on corner....a challenge in those tight corners...but awesome views.

another stop in the shade to keep temps down and to enjoy Daves fine clobber for his new Aprilia and Brenton has an affair with a Harley Fat Boy Slim ..but not sure Caleb would like his Triumph Speed Triple :)

Down through Murwillumbah to the riverside pub at Tumbalgum, which was nearly deserted...seems no one likes the heatwave.

With some of the group off for a swim on the coast...others slabbing it straight up the highway..the rest followed the original route back along the river, through the cane fields then up Currumbin and Tallebudgerra Valleys to finish at West Burleigh Caltex. The ever present Blackbird filled my rear camera....John Buckman up to his usual trick..with Jude on the back enjoying her first pillion ride..what a start 400km...40:degg C 

So we finally made to West Burleigh for a fuel top up and the long run home. The Hot way round was great...400km...40deg C...great roads and scenery and of course awesome people.