Anyway, we were a few days from home up on top of the mountains somewhere between Goulburn and Bathurst; it was a beautiful morning and we were just soaking up the views when we rounded a corner and saw the road blocked by a Cocky moving a mob of sheep along the road towards us. I brought the bike to a stop on the edge of the road and waited for them to pass by. The Cocky was following the mob in his Landcruiser ute and sent a couple of Kelpies out to move the mob around us. I took the opportunity to get the camera out of the tank bag and take a few shots.
We were soon on our way again and Jude (blue tooth intercom helmet sets are wonderful things) commented on what a beautiful country we lived in and I certainly agreed. Of course there are beautiful places in many parts of the world no doubt, but we have so much beauty right here in our own back yard. Australia is home and we love it and hope to get the opportunity to see a lot more of it in the coming years.
We feel really blessed to have been able to do our recent trip; the longest one in our whole lives. I really can't express how great it was. We basically rode from here via mountain roads to Wollongong where we stayed a few days with Jude's brother and his family. He showed us around the area while we were there. We then rode down the coast a ways and then back up into the mountains and down into Melbourne - what a nightmare that place was for us country folk. Then it was off to spend eighteen days in Tassie. Once back on the mainland we rode the Great Ocean Road and then meandered our way home via the mountains and back roads. We traveled just shy of 10,000 kms in total for the trip.
We took over two thousand photos and could have taken many more but the lack of time and the fact that it isn't easy taking photos when you are riding a bike and wearing a full face helmet limited us quite a bit.
Anyway through these photos I wanted to share a little of what we got to see on our trip. The small photos simply can't do many of the places justice but hopefully they give you a bit of an idea. No doubt some of the places you have been to yourself or may even live near them. Also because we like traveling on our bike quite a number of the photos will feature it, or at least bits of it, in them.
I will probably break the photos up into a number of posts or even threads as there are a lot and it will help with downloading them. I still have a lot to resize for the web as well so it might take awhile to get the whole trip done.
We went from Beaudesert in Qld to Kyogal in NSW via the Lions Road. We have been that way once before but we enjoyed it just as much this time.
- There is a nice camp ground beside this creek
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- Looking from NSW back into QLD
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- I think we were being watched
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- This was some of the good dirt road
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I know why we love living in the country. 
