15th June 2008 - Kiama

The weather frightened a few riders off - Rowan called as I was leaving home to say that he and Mark were planning to take the dog for a walk instead of going for a ride.

I was first to arrive at Newtown (BMW R1200GS) with Ed (Honda CBR600) next to arrive.  Ed hadn't brought his wet weather gear so he decided not to join us.  Just as I was getting ready to abandon the ride, Luke (BMW K1200S) arrived.  By this time there were traces of blue sky so we decided to head on the ride.  Neil (Suzuki) joined us as we were going through St Peters.

A brief stop at Loftus Oval (where we waited for Neil to have his first petrol stop) then on to Bald Head through the National Park.  One thing to be said about bad weather is that is kept the car drivers away and we had a completely free run through the park.

Johan (Honda VFR800) was waiting for us at Bald Hill.  There was gale blowing and only one other biker (who didn't turn out to be the new rider we were expecting).  We headed down the hill to Stanwell Park for coffee.  As we were about to leave, we were joined by new rider Andrew (Yamaharley) who had missed us at Bald Hill.

From Stanwell Park we headed to Helensburgh and along the Old Princes Highway and continued through Wollongong before detouring through Albion Park and Jamberoo to Kiama.  At one stage it looked like the weather would completely clear but this was short lived - fortunately we only got light rain.

We stopped for lunch at the Blackrock Café were they were doing a special on bacon (refer photos).

We farewelled Andrew and Johan here and headed back through Jamberoo with yet another petrol stop for Neil at Albion Park.  A final stop at Sublime Point before heading back to Sydney.

Next ride is on Sunday 20 July heading to Wisemans Ferry.

James