Sunday get together.

Mike and I doing some Heavy Farm work.

A very nice Flower on the Porch.

On Sunday Mike had arranged for Allan, Corrina and Caleb to come out and that Allan installs a Power point and a connection point for the TV in the room. Also Caleb wanted to do some riding on his Bike while Allan was doing the work. The plan was, once he finished the job, we all go for a drive back to the Café I mentioned the other day and have something to eat and drink. Because it took longer than we anticipated and the Café closes at 4 pm, it was too late and we have to go there another weekend.

Parrot leaving Nest

Caleb riding his Bike!!!!

Nice week of cycling !

Jenny is having a well earned rest.

Wednesday morning it was cold and the easterly was again here in its full strength. We decided to have a late start again, so I carried on with trying to catch up on the Blog and the Journal. I hope by the end of this weekend I will have achieved that.



And the same is applying for me.

By 10.45 am we were ready to get going. We went along Gt. Northern H’way past Bullsbrock. I think it was another 7 km south of Bullsbrock when we reached the turn off to go into the Walyunga NP. From the turn off the entrance to the park was a steady climb of 2.5 km and a nice down hill run of about 1 km, quite steep, were we reached a speed of 64 km/h. We stopped at a picnic area, had a hot drink and some Lunch we bought with us. It was nice and warm as the Valley was like a shelter from the easterly that was still blowing. We spent about ¾ hour there before we started our climb out and heading back home along the way we rode here.

Amazing some of the loads and Trucks along Gt.Northern H'way !

Thursday morning we only could do a shorter ride of about 35 km. On the way home we stopped at a very nice Café that used to be a Roadhouse. It is situated at the intersection Brand H’way and Gt. Northern H’way.
Sometimes on the way home, we have a Coffee and Hot Chocolate, before we start riding uphill back to the house.
In the afternoon we went and meet Corrina at Caleb’s school, then back to their house for a Coffee. After we made a couple of phone calls on the house phone, we went to Warwick to catch up with Mark.

Friday was the day off cycling. Late morning we went and did some shopping. Brought some bright green material to make a cover for Bob the trailer, also some reflector tape Jenny will sew on the cover. Hopefully that will help make us more visible. With the rest of the green material we will make a couple of flags for Bob. We also got a spare Tire and Tube for Bob.
At 4.15 pm we met up with Jan and Tracey at The Royal Hotel in East Perth to catch up on the old and new News as we haven’t seen each other for a while.

Cold but Sunny Days

Monday has been our day off cycling. We are trying to get into a routine were we cycle 2 or 3 days, then have 1 day off the bike. Like this we will be easing our self into a routine that is similar to what we have planned for our trip.

We went late morning into Midland to get a few things from the Midland Surplus Store for the tour. After we had a good look around we went over to the big Shopping centre. Had some lunch in the fast food hall and I had a Hot dog. I was not very impressed with the taste of it, even 2 hours after it was still somewhere around my taste buts and annoying me. At least I learnt a lesson; don’t eat crap when there is Subway and another couple of healthy fast food outlets around. On the way back we stopped at a roadside stall and brought fresh Oranges and Mandarins. Later on that night I went with Mike to take Bernie, Moira and Isabel to the Airport. They have been booked in for 0.15 am flight to Sydney, then on to Tamworth to visit Family.

Tuesday was a bid of a slow start for our planned ride because the temperature was down to 3 degrees and a cold and strong easterly was blowing. It was about 10.45 am before we left. Went along Gt. Northern H’way to Bullsbrock were we turned left into Chittering Rd.

In one of the Parks we had a coffee we bought in a flask with us and a bite to eat. Because Bullsbrock is at the bottom of the Darling Ranges and our plan was to ride to Chittering Valley Rd, we had a steady climb of about 180 m ahead of us. Mike told us of a small Cafe just before the turnoff into CH V Rd. It is like a shed type building, but it was not our lucky day and it is only open on weekends. At least another good reason to ride back there on the weekend.