I decided to ride up on Friday afternoon and stayed the night in Wallaroo. Rode up from Adelaide and directly into the setting sun for the last hour or so, which was painful. A nice spot with a long jetty (see pic).
Did the short ride down to Moonta on Saturday morning and met up with Alan and Heather (see pic), who had made a really early, cold start from home - very impressive! Spent an hour or so thawing out and chewing the fat before I headed south to Maitland, with Alan and Heather heading north. The weather starting setting in so I got into the wet-weather gear before setting off for Ardrossan. Just in time, fortunately, as it started to rain as I was coming in to Ardrossan but happy to say the gear and the fairing kept me pretty comfortable all the way back to Adelaide.
A nice short ride for my first OzSTOC outing - looking forward to Saddleworth on Sunday and many more. Thanks very much to Alan and Heather for making the effort to get there (postponed appointment and also struggled on last legs of front tyre) and for being such good company.
Cheers,
Marty
