Ride to the coast in December 07

Amanda and Matt suggested a few of us head down to the coast (Moruya) by bike, spend the night at Matt's parent's place and come back via the blueberry farm the next day (by car). Sounded like fun so Danielle, Ben and I went along and Keith came down to help with transport. Nice cruisy long ride, some time at the coast, 2 KG of fresh blueberries each. It does not get much better. I took some photos (so did Matt, I will link to his if he puts them online).

I rode my cyclocross bike, the others all rode mountain bikes (Matt and Amanda both on Specialized Epics, Danielle on a Scott Alloy HT and Ben on a Jamis HT).

If you want to see where we went have a look here, or with HR and stuff too.


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Danielle on the way out of Canberra.

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Matt

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Amanda

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Ben

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At the top of the hill out of Queanbeyan.

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Daniella and Amanda climbing the hill.

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closer, it was already pretty hot this early in the day, how Danielle could stand having a vest on was beyond me.

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Almost done.

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Matt and Danielle on a hill near Rossi.

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Amanda

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Ben and Danielle.

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Climbing a hill on the way out of Tallagnda.

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Ben

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Danielle.

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Amanda.

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Matt was taking photos while riding along here (fire road approaching Majors Creek) so I took one through the bars toward Amanda.

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A food stop in shade as we approached Majors Creek.

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The others had complained the photos were only being taken as they slogged up hills, so I stopped on a descent to take some.

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Not an interesting descent but fun none the less.

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The spectacular view over the Araluen valley near the top of the descent into it.

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After lunch riding the undulating terrain toward Moruya.

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Danielle posing for a photo.

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It was a hot day and the heat was being felt.

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The lack of wind in the valley made it feel hotter too.

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So when we got to the Deua river campground we stopped and had a swim which cooled us all down nicely.

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I thought the rock cutouts were interesting so stopped for photos.

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As did Matt.

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Matt finishing the final real climb of the ride just before hitting bitumen.

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Good to be almost done.

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Amanda

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finishing the climb

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Danielle

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Ben

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Time to roll into town.

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The five of us sitting in the park in Moruya


Steven Hanley <sjh@svana.org>
Last modified: Wed Jan 2 11:16:29 2008