Monday, February 27, 2012

2 Ferry's Run

Today Bushpig and I decided on a fairly short ride out to Wisemans Ferry and had planned on coming back through the Old Pacific Highway. On the trip up Cattai we came upon a V8 Ute sitting behind a car, once bushpig had dispatched the Ute, the Ute overtook the car in front as fast as possible at the next opportunity he got which was just about when I went to overtake. He sped right up behind bushpigs R1. Luckily I was thinking this guy might try this so I sat back for a bit to pick my moment where I was going to pass. 

This guy was going round blind bends with 2 wheels in the oncoming lane just to keep up. What an idiot. I quickly decided to get out of there before he had a head on with someone.  We got into Wisemans Ferry just in time for Lunch.

There are quite a few bikes at the pub today. Just had a quick burger and chips that was so-so, Bushpig had the home made pot pie. It looked superb so I know what I'll be ordering the next time I stop here. Just as we are about to leave I notice a couple of guys loading an R6 up into a trailer. Apparently it was making horrible noises that sounded expensive to fix.

We decided to change direction and head back down River road and take the Ferry's instead of going the long way round to the cop infested Old Road.

After riding along the river we came to the Lower Portland Ferry. It was only a short wait till we rode on board and continued on towards the Sackville Ferry.






It was only a short ride of a few km's from the lower Portland ferry to the Sackville ferry. The ferry was at the other side when we arrived so we went for a bit of a walk to the waters edge for a couple of pics then it was quickly back to the bikes as the ferry doesn't take very long to cross the river.



These roads are pretty popular with bikers in Sydney even though they are mostly back roads, there were a few bikes on the ferry coming over.

There are lots of sandstone rock formations in this area which is pretty unique to the blue mountains area. I noticed lots of people out on the river today skiing and just cruising enjoying the cool waters.

Two little innocent R1's waiting to play.
It was an good ride out today but just a short one at about 150km's plus it was threatening to rain all day with a few spots on the visor but nothing eventuated out of it just some hot humid conditions. All in all a good day out.

8 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great day of riding, minus the Ute trying to race.

    Do you have a lot of the cable ferries in your area? We have a few here in rural areas to cross the river. They change us a $1 a bike/car to use them.

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    1. There are 4 of these ferrys in about a 20 km radius but luckily for us they are free. There is some good riding around these little back roads.

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  2. I am not sure what it is with some car drivers, some just dont take to be over taken by bikes. Happens here as well. Any ride is a good ride if you ask me, and some times a small 150 jaunt can be just as much fun as a 700km day. Ferry's looked like fun, I enjoy rolling my bike onto a ferry and always enjoy a small baot trip.

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  3. Chillertek:

    we also have some cable ferries up here, but we also have a Reaction ferry which uses a rudder on the fast flowing Fraser River to move to the other side, and it has a few tether cables, just in case something goes wrong.

    http://www.goldtrail.com/Site%20Pages/Lytton%20Reaction%20Ferry.pdf

    bob
    Riding the Wet Coast

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  4. Good to see a dry day down there in Sydney town. You must be starting to grow webbing between your toes! Is "Bushpig" Geoff?

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  5. Chiller,

    Looks like a nice little run. I too often find that cars we catch up with on the twisties, all of a sudden decide that they need to go faster to try to and keep up with us. I've had a few 'heroes' over the years!

    I'm curious, how do you watermark your pictures? It's something that I'd like to be able to do.

    Cheers Jules

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  6. Jules
    I use photoshop to watermark my photos, but if you don't have that you can download Paint.Net for free and it has similar abilities to be able to watermark your pictures.

    http://www.getpaint.net/

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