The Minister and I were invited on a last ride before Christmas of a loose group of riding mates who are joined at the hip by all buying fuel at the local Shell servo. Those with good memories will know that it was with this group that I had a bingle on teh Breva last year, but that was another story....
So plan was to meet at a Servo just south of Brisbane and ride the Summerland way which is south of Rathdowney and a very nice bit of road. The past weeks weather has been characterised by 1 in 100 year storms and very high winds, but Sunday dawned fine and quite cool but very windy with gusts up to 72Km per hour recorded at 11:45am.
Now the thing is that these blokes while being a great bunch are really into "riding" and for me bike riding is about discovery of new places as much as the ride itself, so I didn't take any pics until.......
At about lunch time we unfortunately got left behind a bit and took a wrong turn or probably just missed one - not to worry, it's all pretty laid back and a quick phone call and we decided to make our own way.
So now the fun started - we found a road marked "Falls Road" 14km east of Boonah and with no fewer than 6 falls were listed on the road sign with a distance to the last one of 57km. Now all that might make you think that we went to see them all, but of course that's not how it worked out.
We went up into the mountains on the Qld / NSW border. It was an amazing track, marked as unsealed in Map Source but in actual fact sealed the entire way. It wound around and around up into the Koreelah National Park and we had our 1st glimpse of a fall
So plan was to meet at a Servo just south of Brisbane and ride the Summerland way which is south of Rathdowney and a very nice bit of road. The past weeks weather has been characterised by 1 in 100 year storms and very high winds, but Sunday dawned fine and quite cool but very windy with gusts up to 72Km per hour recorded at 11:45am.
Now the thing is that these blokes while being a great bunch are really into "riding" and for me bike riding is about discovery of new places as much as the ride itself, so I didn't take any pics until.......
At about lunch time we unfortunately got left behind a bit and took a wrong turn or probably just missed one - not to worry, it's all pretty laid back and a quick phone call and we decided to make our own way.
So now the fun started - we found a road marked "Falls Road" 14km east of Boonah and with no fewer than 6 falls were listed on the road sign with a distance to the last one of 57km. Now all that might make you think that we went to see them all, but of course that's not how it worked out.
We went up into the mountains on the Qld / NSW border. It was an amazing track, marked as unsealed in Map Source but in actual fact sealed the entire way. It wound around and around up into the Koreelah National Park and we had our 1st glimpse of a fall