Boorowa - Sydney
11 June 2014
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This was the final day of an excellent ride. Our route would take us to Sydney over the Blue Mountains with some fantastic stretches of road, particularly between Taralga and Oberon. Pterodactyl was in home territory and loving it. Watching him race ahead, I wondered whether he shouldn’t be renamed Terror Dactyl.
The next photos were taken at a brief rest stop next to the Abercrombie river which lies at the bottom of a steep downward windy road and then a steep upward windy road. Apparently there’s a rally held there. It’d be a great place to camp, but cold as in the winter.
We stopped just outside Lithgow for a coffee and something to eat and inspected the bugs on the front of our bikes ...
... and took a last look at the part of the Blue Mountains through which we’d just ridden.
The penultimate leg took us along Bells Line of Road, a ridge along the Blue Mountains behind Sydney which then drops into its far northern suburbs.
At a final coffee stop at Macdonalds in Windsor we reviewed the journey and said our farewells before riding together towards Sydney. I last saw Pterodactyl as he headed for the tunnel under Sydney Harbour while I rode over the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. I’m still wishing I could have taken a photo as I rode across, but the traffic was dense and worrisome and I didn’t have the camera ready to go. But here’s a photo of the bridge from another day in Sydney …
It was a great trip. Together, we covered more than 2,500 kilometres and reduced the bug population of Australia by around 678,253. Sadly, we also reduced the bird population by two.
Although Pterodactyl and I had parted company, I’ve more story to tell. I still had to get home.
