Dodging Rain at Nattai

Just a short ride today out to Warragamba dam. Checking the weather radar and forecast said it was going to rain today, but we headed out in sunshine. I picked Geoff up at his place and we went out through the back of Luddenham and up to Warragamba. I turned off to take a picture at the dam wall viewing platform, point to Geoff to go down there. Looks like he ignored that and kept riding , so we go split up here.

There was nobody about when I got there and 1 car pulled up to have a look  just as I was leaving.

Dam Wall

Warragamba Visitors Centre

I jumped back on and thought I'd better find Geoff, not knowing if he went in to the visitors centre or kept going I rode in to have a look. Nope he wasn't in there either so I continued back out and towards Silverdale. This is where I made a error in navigation and took a left turn instead of a right. I was going back towards Wallacia. Err oops so I did a U turn and came back again, probably a 5-10km detour, ah well shit happens.

So most of the ride down through to the Oaks and out to Nattai was by myself, about 1 km from the lookout Geoff came along riding the other way. I decided that I was going to the lookout regardless so continued on, Geoff turned around and came back just in time to laugh at me for getting lost.

Lookout at Nattai Ridge

The rain was coming up the other end of the valley. Time to get going before it gets here. Neither of us had any wet weather gear with us today. If it was light showers it would be ok but not heavy rain.

As we came down the curves from Nattai it started to shower on and off lightly. It wasn't really a problem as it stopped not long after it started. We headed back to Wallacia Hotel for some lunch. They have done up the beer garden at the pub and they now have about 15 motorcycle parking spots right by the back door. The steak sandwiches was fantastic.

We then dropped in through to Eastern Creek as the Post classic racing was on today and Geoffs mate Stewie was going to be there. It didn't cost anything to get in and about 2 minutes after arriving it bucketed down with rain so we hid inside the pit garage with Stewie who was handing out the trophies today. He didn't want to race in the rain today.

It stopped raining and Geoff and I made a dash for home which wasn't far from the creek. Another day of riding done and dusted, we spent the afternoon dodging the rain.