Day 249: Spring Has Sprung

It's a sure sign spring is here when Commonwealth Park is closed off and the Floriade Ferris Wheel is lit up. I only noticed this as I was heading home from the pub tonight and I assume Floriade will be in full swing within the next couple of weeks. For now though, there's only fences and mounds of dirt... so far as I could see in the dark anyway.

I had a few attempts at this photo and it's times like this that a tripod would have been handy. I ended up sitting the camera on a rock wall so I wouldn't wobble during the 2 or so second exposure. It seemed to work out ok.

Day 179: At The Pub

Henry joined me at the pub this afternoon, I was catching up with Pete & Andy for a quick planning meeting for our ride next week. It was Henry's first time at the pub and I think he handled himself pretty well: he kept us entertained with his party tricks that involved throwing things on the floor and then climbing off his chair to retrieve them and he held his drink for quite a while before wetting himself, I'm sure he'll get better holding his drink with more practice.

Day 75: A Mint Sunset

On the way home from the pub this evening having still not taken a photo for the day, I thought I'd take advantage a cloud formation that was obscuring the sun as it was setting. I was heading down Adelaide Avenue from the City so I decided to turn off toward the Royal Australian Mint where I could take the photo from the sport fields that adjoin the Mint's car park.

I felt a lot of uncertainty as to how the photo would actually turn out as I was shooting directly into the sun and the tiny little screen on the hand-me-down Canon gives very little indication. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the photo, of course I've tweaked the image with a little of Snapseed's Drama setting.

Day 42: Decision Time

After a great ride from Jindabyne up through Thredbo and Khancoban we pulled up for a late lunch at Corryong (at least I think that's where we stopped). The cafe was nice and we had sheltered seating outside which came in handy when it started to rain. As it was raining we took advantage of the Cafe's hospitality and cleaned our visors with the warm soapy water and cloth that was delivered out to us by the young lady who took our lunch orders, you just don't get service like that in Canberra.

I also took the opportunity to duck into the hardware store and buy a couple of ocky straps to secure my back pack to the pillion seat, it worked really well and I'll be using this method of carrying luggage for any future overnight rides.

When the rain had eased we moved on again and found some nice dry sections of road going through God knows where... well actually Pete & Andy seemed to know where they were going and I just tagged along enjoying the scenery when the roads weren't that exciting and the roads when the scenery wasn't that exciting.

Eventually we arrived at this little information bay just outside of Tawonga, behind us was blue skies and ahead it was looking pretty dark. We had a choice to make: continue on with our plan to ride through to Omeo for the night or take the next right up Tawonga Gap Road and into Bright for the night. We took the latter and ended up in Bright with time for a few beers before scoffing an impressive goat curry at the local pub.

All in all we dodged most of the rain and had a bloody good day covering somewhere around 300km with plenty more to come tomorrow.