I created yesterday's RTE in lieu of the Silverton RTE as I am still not prepared to cross any state borders. Despite the weather, we had a good turn out for lunch. Three ring-ins had left by the time we took group photos.
My day started with me checking out a few things I have spotted on my travels at work and thought I'll bring the bike out there one day. The first is this huge chimney in the Adelaide CBD. In recent times I have spotted a lot of old buildings/structures in the CBD that I have never batted an eyelid at before.
A co-worker had pointed this outside the Heart Foundation office before and to be honest from a bus window it didn't look overly impressive. Up close was much better.
This church in Parkside is off the main drag but always catches my eye when I drive past. From the front it is impossible to get the whole building in the one shot. Trees are a bit of a hindrance but the houses on the opposite side of the road are too close.
I probably would never have noticed this except for having to stop at the bus stop right out the front of this house, but for some reason it has a torii (this shaped ⛩ Japanese shrine) out the front. I wonder why.
This replica church is in the Mount Lofty cemetry grounds in Uraidla. I couldn't get the bike in there and the only safe place to park was on the other side of the road, otherwise I would have got some of the bike in the picture and played it in the "STs in front of small things* thread.
I rode through back streets of Saint George which were full of debris and thought the same thing Langers said about his traversing of Sturt Valley Road - probably wasn't the best idea given the weather we have had in recent days. My only dirt road for the day was in Hahndorf (only a few hundred metres) before making my way to Littlehampton which is well know for its bricks and pavers.
Some random riders who road past when I was taking photos in Flaxley.
I already had photos of this sculpture in Macclesfield when I did the Hills Sculpture Trail on the easter weekend but after that I learned that the one in Nairne and Hahndorf swivel and this appears to have the same mechanism so i stopped to check if this too does rotate. It does. I dare say one of the Stirling ones does too.
No surprise the ride to the venue wasn't a straight line. This is from my greenalp tracker. I created a Spotwalla trip as well but like most recent trips bubbler/spotwalla missed lots of points including the 'messages' I actually sent. I am getting tempted to uninstall both and just stick to Greenalp.
I snapped Stinky Pete and JB arriving at the venue.
It was my first time in the Maccy but I think Stinky Pete summed it up well.
It was a cold wintery day for a short RTE into the Adelaide Hills to the historic little town of Macclesfield. It was my first visit to this pub, and the food was great, with lots of locals present, all warmed by several open fires. I had cold rain most of the way home, and was pleased to be safely home after riding through wet conditions through the hills twisties. Overall, a good day out.
The ride home was rather straight. The only rain I copped on the way home what when I hit the freeway at Stirling. There was bits of drizzle between Green Hills Range and Aldgate but nothing too severe until I hit the freeway.