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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => RIDE REPORTS => Topic started by: on April 22, 2019, 06:45:41 PM
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After Lorne Williamson scoffed that South Australia doesn't have many highways but I ratteled off about thirty off the top of my head when I read that post. Today I decided to go and ride the Ngarkat Highway for the first time since 2014. It was the first time I took the Kwaka along it.
First stop was Cooke Plains to check on the wild life.
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Breakfast was at Keith, my usual pit stop when travelling this way. There was a bit of fog in the area but that was the only fog for the day.
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No mechanical worries for me today but this truckie wasn't having the best of times. This was in Cannawigara just as I turned on to the Ngarkat Highway.
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I had a Senior moment, deviating off into the dirt.
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It appears that nothing has changed in the four years I have been away. Soft edges in Ngarkat.
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Suddenly that truckie's woes weren't looking so bad. This u-pull-it job was in Pinnaroo.
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Back home along the Mallee Highway. I dropped into every town. Parrakie was one of them.
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Geranium has it's fans. To me it sounds like a name that should be on the periodic table.
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I don't see these signs very often so I had to get a selfie at Jabuk.
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Moorlands was my third venue in the dirt..
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I sort of knew there was a big olive somewhere in Tailem Bend but I had never seen it before until I looked to a shed off the Princes/Dukes Highway in the morning and there it was in the distance, so I stopped to bag it on the way home.
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All in all I had a good day, fine weather, fried chicken for breakfast, took 175 photos and returned home content. Now what's for lunch?
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Nice report, thanks Bodø
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Very Good Bodo :thumbsup
You certainly get around :like
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I try.
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Thanks for posting words and pics Bodo.
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Ngarkat Highway - pfft, 115km (according to Google) you call that a Highway, in VIC we call that a C Road.
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..... Now what's for lunch?
How many Highways did you ride along or cross before lunch.
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Princes, Dukes, Riddoch, Ngarkat, Mallee and crossed Anzac.
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Princes, Dukes, Ngarkat, Mallee and crossed Anzac.
:thumbs
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Oh, and if you think the Ngarkat is short google the Philips Highway at Elizabeth. Even I scoff at that one.
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You forgot the Old Dukes Highway, you passed that twice at Moorlands and Coomandook.
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Excellent report. Gotta love those creatures people weld up and paint so well.
It's always sad to see cars that have lost the will to move being stripped by the roadside. Free tyres and rims are the first to go.
Geranium might be found in a garden, but you're right, "Germanium" is found in the periodic table.
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That car was stripped of absolutely everything. I took photos of it from all sides.
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You forgot the Old Dukes Highway, you passed that twice at Moorlands and Coomandook.
And the Riddoch at Keith.
Edit:
Actually Riddoch should have gone in as one of the traverersed ones as I rode 50m of it before turning into the Keith roadhouse.
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Only ever been on the Pinnaroo to Bordertown road once and so long I forget when.
Thanks for the write up.