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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: StinkyPete on November 17, 2018, 04:27:36 PM
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I am planning on doing an Oz Lap, departing on the 14th March 2019. The first part of the trip is with my touring mates Steve, Fish and Marcelo, who will go as far as Lakes Entrance. This leg is at a pretty easy pace due to one rider having a pretty crook back. They will head for home from Lakes Entrance, and I will continue on my own.
My proposed route and itinerary is shown below, both in both the Google Map links and map images attached to this message and the red dots show my proposed overnight stops. There is some flexibility in both the itinerary and the route, and I plan a reasonably leisurely two month trip, with lots of time to “smell the roses” and without embedding any “Iron Butt” rides into the adventure. Some dates are set in stone, including Darwin and Broome due to commitments in those places on the dates shown.
While I have previously completed a circumnavigation over two rides undertaken in 2009 and 2012, I've always wanted to do an OzLap in one hit while my health remains good.
I invite OzSTOC folk to accompany me on he road if you wish. The best way to contact me during this adventure will be by Text Message, or Phone Call in the evenings. I'll post my Spot Link before I leave so you can see where I am, as well as a dedicated phone number which will be used just for the trip.
Proposed Itinerary
Leg 1 - Adelaide to Dubbo via Mallacoota 2612km
https://goo.gl/maps/PNaR2Yd8RC12
Leg 2 - Dubbo to Tenterfield 2099km
https://goo.gl/maps/nfhZQ2dbMdF2
Leg 3 - Tenterfield to Cooktown 2521km
https://goo.gl/maps/XdGYhMxs1HQ2
Leg 4 - Cooktown to Tennant Creek 2228km
https://goo.gl/maps/rGUrkQTFiFP2
Leg 5 - Tennant Creek to Port Headland 3565km
https://goo.gl/maps/H11MMpE8Cmq
Leg 6 - Port Headland to Carnarvon 1133km
https://goo.gl/maps/nmBdti3DRc82
Leg 7 - Carnarvon to Perth 1158km
https://goo.gl/maps/hoCzuY352xH2
Leg 8 - Perth to Home 3362km
https://goo.gl/maps/79H1iuBR6TM2
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Images of my proposed route. More images to follow when I work my way around the "fails security checks" for some of my map inages. :H
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Looks good . . . Joanne and I happy to accommodate you in Canberra if you don’t already have digs lined up.
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Sorted. More images of my planned route.
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Looks good . . . Joanne and I happy to accommodate you in Canberra if you don’t already have digs lined up.
Thanks for the kind offer STroppy. I'll be in touch.....
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Would be great if RTE's could be organised for strategic points along the way. When would you be passing through Toowoomba for example?
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Would be great if RTE's could be organised for strategic points along the way. When would you be passing through Toowoomba for example?
I will be passing through Toowomba on or about Friday 6th April, en route from Warwick to Hervey Bay.
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Picked the right time of the year to go;
tourist terrorist season as they say in Port Hedland and Karratha
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Looks great. Will watch with interest
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Hi StinkyPete.
That looks like a great trip etc. I am very envious,
There is a bed and feed for you in Northampton, {50 K.s } to the north of Geraldton if you want it,
Best wishes for the trip.
Cheers .
Winston66
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Looks a great trip. Bed available here if you decide to come this way.
A couple of suggestions- from Canberra go to Goulburn and turn left to Oberon then Bathurst, Orange, Molong and going from Grafton to Byron up the Pacific Hwy is 100Km of road works. A better quieter road is the Summerland way to Casino.
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Looks a great trip. Bed available here if you decide to come this way.
A couple of suggestions- from Canberra go to Goulburn and turn left to Oberon then Bathurst, Orange, Molong and going from Grafton to Byron up the Pacific Hwy is 100Km of road works. A better quieter road is the Summerland way to Casino.
Thanks for the suggestions, and the offer of a bed. :thumb I'll have a close look at my maps, which are now permenantly on the kitchen table, as it looks like a great route.
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Would be great if RTE's could be organised for strategic points along the way. When would you be passing through Toowoomba for example?
I will be passing through Toowomba on or about Friday 6th April, en route from Warwick to Hervey Bay.
Pete it would be great for a catch up and depending on work a bed would be available
I still owe you one or six :like
Have a great trip :hatwave
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Hi Pete,
First of all: Enjoy.
Second: Dave's Bakehouse in Kyogle is a great place to stop for morning tea or lunch. Heading north, it is on the left just before the bend in the main Street (near the taxi rank)
Third: If you can handle dirt roads, the Border Ranges National Park (turn right in Wiangaree) is a great place to visit. The Pinnacle walk is beautiful and the view over the Tweed Valley and Mt Warning is spectacular.
Fourth: A word of warning, the Woolooga to Gundiah stretch has about 5 km of dirt road. We came back over it on the way back from Mackay and there was a huge amount of large loose gravel.
Fifth, if you detour through Brisbane (not in early to late April as we'll be in Japan), there's always a bed here for you if you need it, and a detour tour of Moreton Bay cruising can be arranged.
Sixth: I'll be following your Spot with interest.
Serventh: Enjoy!! : hatwave.
Cheers,
Gary
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A word of warning, the Woolooga to Gundiah stretch has about 5 km of dirt road. We came back over it on the way back from Mackay and there was a huge amount of large loose gravel.
Thanks Gary. I'll re-jig my route to avoid the loose gravel, although smooth dirt does not phase me. The other suggestions will be taken on board, as part of gathering info from those who know the areas. Thanks also for the offer of a bed.
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The plan looks good Pete
Showed it to Navgirl and she is now in the spare room making up the bed :thumbs
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Hi Pete,
First of all: Enjoy.
Fourth: A word of warning, the Woolooga to Gundiah stretch has about 5 km of dirt road. We came back over it on the way back from Mackay and there was a huge amount of large loose gravel.
Gary did you go via Miva Rd. I think its the only road that has dirt on it nowadays.. my last trip also coming back from Mackay I came thru from Tiaro to Gundiah then onto Glastonbury via Woolooga and didn't find dirt..
Pete looks like an epic trip, it might be possible for me to join in on some legs if the stars align and you up for a little company on the road.
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Pete looks like an epic trip, it might be possible for me to join in on some legs if the stars align and you up for a little company on the road.
You will always be welcome to join with me on the road, so we'll keep in touch. The zig-zag trip across the Great Divide is a part of the adventure that I'm really lookign forward to.
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Pete it would be great for a catch up and depending on work a bed would be available
I still owe you one or six :like
Have a great trip :hatwave
THanks for the kind offer Leo. I'll see how the plan and the schedule comes together. :thumbsup
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You must have had fun doing the planning. Very comprehensive plan.
If it works I would love to join you for some of the trip when you are near Melbourne. And organise a rTE somewhere. If we are not away. NZ is possible next year.
Ps the fish and chips at Pt Albert are very special.
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You must have had fun doing the planning. Very comprehensive plan.
If it works I would love to join you for some of the trip when you are near Melbourne. And organise a rTE somewhere. If we are not away. NZ is possible next year.
Ps the fish and chips at Pt Albert are very special.
You'd be most welcome to join us again. :thumb The schedule from home to Lakes Entrance is inflexible, so have a look at where we will be on the document attached to my first post. I've corrected some date errors that were in the original doucment that I posted. I've certainly had fun planning the trip, and reckon that much of the enjoyment is in the planning. I need to decide if I'm going to put the legs into my GPS using the Garmin Basecamp software, or spend some time at the end of of each day and do it one day at a time.
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I am planning on doing an Oz Lap, departing on the 14th March 2019......
What a trip! I think I oughta retire.
..... organise an RTE somewhere....
Pete, looking at your maps and itinerary and how they might fit in with an RTE on a weekend, Sunday 17 March, 2019 would be a good fit. This could be somewhere along the GOR, and I'm thinking Lorne might be a goer. Let us (well, Garry) know what you think.
Garry, over to you to make some tentative plans on this one, let me know, and I'll start a thread.
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Pete, looking at your maps and itinerary and how they might fit in with an RTE on a weekend, Sunday 17 March, 2019 would be a good fit. This could be somewhere along the GOR, and I'm thinking Lorne might be a goer. Let us (well, Garry) know what you think.
Garry, over to you to make some tentative plans on this one, let me know, and I'll start a thread.
Lunch at Lorne on that day sounds like a really good idea. :beer
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Hi Pete,
If you need a bed in Rocky, I'm sure my Brother and his wife would love to put you up. WendyL stayed there with us on the way to Mackay.
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Hi Pete,
If you need a bed in Rocky, I'm sure my Brother and his wife would love to put you up. WendyL stayed there with us on the way to Mackay.
Thanks mate for the lovely offer on your bro's behalf. I'll be in touch closer to the time, and do plan on staying a night in Rocky. :thumb
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OzLap 2019 Challenges, see how many:
* RTE's can you squeeze-in in 63 days?
* How many pics you cab get of the ST, errr BM, in front of Big Things?
* See if you can enough pics of your motorcycle in front of township signs to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - only one wildcard (for the X, permitted).
* See if can get the grandest Grand Tour.
* See if you can the most royal of Royal Tours.
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:popcorn. Talk about setting milestones. Knowing Pete though he will most probably achieve them.
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:popcorn. Talk about setting milestones. Knowing Pete though he will most probably achieve them.
I'm hoping others will a challenge or three to the list.
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only one wildcard (for the X, permitted).
There is a place in WA (at least I think there is ) called Xanthese
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It's called Xantippe and the road in is sealed.
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Pete, when you start your run, I will chase your spot and post a running report on your progress.
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Pete, when you start your run, I will chase your spot and post a running report on your progress.
Thanks Kev. My access to social media will be limited, so you will be my "Press Secretary" :thumb
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OzLap 2019 Challenges, see how many:
* See if you can enough pics of your motorcycle in front of township signs to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - only one wildcard (for the X, permitted).
Nooooo. Please don't burn all your town signs on one dumb word!!! :eek :-(((
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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Nooooo. Please don't burn all your town signs on one dumb word!!! :eek :-(((
How many towns, localities, boroughs, cities, etc ...... will Pete pass through on his OzLap? Hardly use all of his town signs!
And, it's not a dumb word! It means, extraordinarily good; wonderful, according to one of the finds to this search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=supercalifragilisticexpialidocious+meaning&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab (https://www.google.com/search?q=supercalifragilisticexpialidocious+meaning&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab)
Hmmpphh!
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OzLap 2019 Challenges, see how many:
* RTE's can you squeeze-in in 63 days?
* How many pics you cab get of the ST, errr BM, in front of Big Things?
* See if you can enough pics of your motorcycle in front of township signs to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - only one wildcard (for the X, permitted).
* See if can get the grandest Grand Tour.
* See if you can the most royal of Royal Tours.
I'm not sure about any of this. My plan was simply to take my time and celebrate life on the road, meet some old friends and new friends, and take time to "Smell the Roses". Who knows, I might find my hidden inner Hippie.
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"Smell the Roses"
I think rose season will be over, you have to find something else to sniff.
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And, it's not a dumb word! It means, extraordinarily good; wonderful, according to one of the finds to this search:
Hmmpphh!
My point was not so much the quality of the word, which is without a doubt a clever creation of the Sherman brothers.
I simply don't want to see 34 town signs used up on one word! That's the "dumb" part!
It seems to be a struggle to get people to find 7 signs for the current word. Wot thuh
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Most of my planning is completed, with new kit tested, and some booking made. The bike is booked into my MotoAdelaide next week, and in Darwin for a service and new tyres. Chris is flying to Broome so we can spend a couple of days there, which will be beaut. I do need to coordinate an anti cancer treatment while I'm away, and the date that it's due correnspods with me being in a spot with a big regional hospital, so the stars are alligning nicely. It's just nine and a half weeks to my departure, and that time will go very quickly :thumb
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I will watch your trip with envy.
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Glad everything is aligning up and plans are worked out
Now just got to ride which is all the fun ++
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Good stuff. Don't ya just love it when the stars align.
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Excitement building. ++
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Good stuff. Looking forward to seeing you and the boys on the way through.
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That reads like you've been doing some serious preparation! :grin
Great that the count-down has begun. All the best with the rest of the arrangements.
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Will be watching to post spot reports on progress, Pete :thumb
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I spent a fortune on a new, seriously conpact two man tent, with an inflatable frame, specifically for this trip. It came from O/S and there were none in Ausstralia that I could look at, so I bought it unseen.
Two Man!! Absolute B@#$^%t...... :fp It could fit two six year olds, but not two adults, and it's too small to store my overnight stuff as well as a slepping mat, so I'm back to my old faithful BlackWolf Gobi tent. This will be another tax deduction for a self education expense, and it will most likely go for up sale after being used for just two nights of testing. It was a serious mistake. :well
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Pete, perhaps your tent was designed with this in mind:
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BUGGER
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This is why I prefer to look at things tangible instead of buying on line.
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To my thinking with tents, you always need to subtract 1 from the description. 2 man tent meas one will fit with a little gear, 3 man equals two at a squeeze.
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To my thinking with tents, you always need to subtract 1 from the description. 2 man tent meas one will fit with a little gear, 3 man equals two at a squeeze.
I knew that, but was deceived by the internal dimensions which we marked out on the kitchen floor, and some positive on-line reviews and videos Space is lost due to the inward slope of the walls.
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With just four week to go before my departure, all necessary preparations are completed, and I'm getting a bit excited. A number of “Shed, Bed & Fed” offers have been made and accepted where they fit with my travel plans, and for those I am most appreciative. I also look forward to catching up with others at several RTE's that have been planned to coincide with my travels.
You can follow my journey of my Spot Link which is https://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0qDgXQYACM1Niq6Lv0UrbR6NtxisuFFRM
I've also moved to a phone carrier which will give me the best coverage possible while I'm away. Therefore you won't be able to get me on my old number, ending “…. 339”. If you would like my new number, which some have already and which ends “......068”, send me a PM and I'll reply with the number. Text messages might be the best way to make initial contact me, as I don't have my phone linked to my helmet coms.
:thumbsup My Departure Date is the 14th March, leaving home with mates Fish and Marcelo
:thumbsup My itinerary is at the top of ths thread.
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I'm off tomorrow morning and look forward to catching up with quite a few OzSTOC members, either at the RTE's that have been arranged around my trip, with those with whom I am staying at various locations, and with those that I'll see on the road.
:hatwave
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Have a great trip Pete, see you at Lorne :hatwave
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What jd said !
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:thumbsup
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Have a great trip Pete hope to catch up somewhere in Queensland :hatwave
Will follow your trip with internet
:beer
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:blk13 :dred11
Ride safe Pete, enjoy the ride and I lQQk forward to joining you at RTE's along the way. Even the possibility of joining you along the way as I myself hit the road soon on my own adventures. :thumbsup
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Townsville offer:
HOT or cold Shower
clean flushing loo
cold water/beer or hot coffee/tea.
......... also if needed a place to sleep in a BED in private room.
My number is in the RAN if there are ANY troubles around the Mackay North / Ingham South / Charters Towers East locations.
I have a trailer if all else fails if you have troubles in those areas.
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Townsville offer:
HOT or cold Shower
clean flushing loo
cold water/beer or hot coffee/tea.
......... also if needed a place to sleep in a BED in private room.
My number is in the RAN if there are ANY troubles around the Mackay North / Ingham South / Charters Towers East locations.
I have a trailer if all else fails if you have troubles in those areas.
Thanks Spanner. Townsville is not a scheduled stopover and I'll keepit in mind, but it's good to know that some support is nearby if the SHTF :thumbs
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Safe travels, looking forward to following your progress and hearing about the trip at an RTE
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When your spot becomes active Pete, I will start a thread and follow you, (except for next Sunday, when I will see you at Lorne)
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Safe travels Pete, I'll be watching with interest and look forward to catching up on your return.
Cheers Mark
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have a great trip. One day I hope to do the lap as well