28th April 2013, Bundaleer Forest, South Australia

It a nice sunny day (third one in a row) so we went for a ride to Bundaleer State Forest this afternoon and stopped off for lunch at the take away in Jamestown which is 40 kilometres from home in Peterborough.

We normally go to the take away every two weeks on a Sunday for lunch and then call into the supermarket on the way back home.

Route Map

Our Honda ST1100A parked across the road from the take away.

Heather went for a short walk to check out some shops and found a pole to lean on.

A shot of the picnic area with the bike just visible in the centre of the picture. 

Part of the walk that we followed.

 I saw some of the bike. From where this taken there's a creek (no water) behind the bike but you can't see it.

This log looks like it has been placed so it could be walked on to cross the creek. Not sure of the length but 10 metres is a good estimate and 2 metres to the creek bed under the log.

Further up the path from the log location.

A Cadillac that was parked a little way up from our table. In 1978 I  nearly bought an earlier one of these as everyone was getting rid of the big cars during the oil crisis back then.

Heather took one of the bike and me. I'm amazed that the camera still works when ever I get my photo taken. Also this is the first time in seven years we have actually used the helmet holders on the bike. We would either carry them or put them in the side cases.

This was our third visit to the forest. Last year I took these of a few metal sculptures which are on a another walk in the forest.

They even have a swing on a metal sculpture of a tree though not suitable for use. Typical style of swing some would have had in their back yard in years gone by.

July 2006, Stawell Weekend

Some friends had an invited us to attend a model train display in which their club had a display.

Though we had ridden the ST1100 back from Bendigo when we picked her up this was our first trip touring away. Trip distance was just over 500kms away so it was an day ride over.

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Our first stop overlooking the plains the other side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The weather, mid winter looked as if it was going to rain so we put our wet weather gear on.

 Point B on the map.

Wet weather pants on for me only. Heather took a photo of me standing beside the ST1100.

We never had rain until sometime later in the day and we had a dry trip to the BP Truck Stop at Bordertown where we stopped for lunch. This was about the halfway point so the bike got topped up as well. 

Several towns later we neared Stawell and had rain for about the last 10 km.s  until we arrived at the caravan park. Just our luck, the weekend we arrive, they get rainfall which they hadn't had for weeks. 

Heather on the bike outside the Cabin we had for two nights. 

The ST110A 

We caught up with our friends the next day at the model railway show. This was our first digital camera and a lot of shots didn't work out to good.

The first two show my blue model which needed the running in time. Dad has it now and runs it on his small layout from time to time.

I'm not sure but I think these are some my friend's. Rosslyn has so many of everything with her large layout at home that I can only remember a little. 90 percent hers are US railroad based models so it's a safe bet they're hers. Before you ask, yes; girls get into railway hobbies too

Don't know whose the next two were but it's a sample of the reality that can be achieved

The local steam preservation had some restored stuff there as well.

Not sure what the above picture was set up for but the next one was a steam powered generator.

We went for a walk to the shop at lunch time and spotted this house that was up for rent. This remined me of the Munsters TV show as the house looked so run down.

When it came time to leave we took a ride to the town look out and took some shots of the surrounding area.

I managed to get Heather getting ready to get back on the bike.

We took a detour out through Halls Gap which is in The Grampians National Park at Point B in the next map. 

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Some shots from where we parked the bike. We decided to make this a coffee stop.

 Some of the Kangaroos that run freely in the park. Not supposed to feed them but people do.

Looking towards the way out.

Next Stop Dimdoola at Point C.

I spotted this sitting in a park so we stopped and got some pictures.

Next stop was Bordertown.

As we entered the town I spotted a couple of Albino Kangaroo's. We'd never seen them before so a couple pictures.

And a couple Emus

That's it, the end of a weekend, rest of trip back home was uneventful, Rather than cut across country like we did on the trip out we through the Adelaide suburban sprawl for fun.