Circumnavigation of Oz take 2

[martymoose]

Latest version of the Circumnavigation adventure, after much consultation and beers........

Day 1 saturday July 16

9am meet at Estuary restaurant, Kangaroo Point, Brooklyn for 10am departure. Heading up the old road to the Gosford , then onto the freeway.

Port Macquarie.
Meet up with Dave H

Day 2
9am departure from Port Macquarie Motorcycles, heading to Fredos Pies, Frederickton. Then on to Stokers Siding.
Meet up with John K.
Murwillumbah 420 km

Day 3
Natural bridge 50
Canungra 48
Tambourine
Jimboomba 40
Camira 33
Meet up with the Redax Team
181

Day 4
Toowoomba 106
Dalby 82
Miles 129
Roma 142
Queens Arms Hotel
459

Day 5
Morven 177
Tambo 211
Blackall 101
Barcoo hotel
489

Day 6. 21/7
Barcaldine 108
Longreach 108
Qantas museum
Stockman's Hall of fame
216

Day 7
Winton 179
Kynuna 164
Cloncurry 183
526

Day 8 July 23
Mt Isa 121

Day 9
Camooweal 190
Barkly homestead
Tablelands 260
450

Day 10
Warumungu 185
Elliot 231
Daly waters 153
569

Day 11
Darwin
590 km.
Meet up with Dave O'Meara

Day 12 27th.
Rest day
Darwin. Mud crab dinner with Dave

Day 13
Litchfield National Park morning run and return 200km

Dinner in the city

Day 14 july 29
Boat trip Kakadu in morning

Day 15 saturday 30 July
Hidden Valley BEARS racing

Day 16
Katherine Gorge

Day 17 , 1/08/22
Timber creek 289
Lake Argyle 226
515

Day 18
Ord river 140
Bungle Bungle National Park
321

Day 19
Halls creek 113
Mueller Ranges 107 no fuel.
Fitzroy crossing 183
Geikie gorge - dirt rd
403

Day 20
Willare 229 fuel
Derby 36
265

Day 21 5th August
Broome 220.

Day 22
Roebuck Plains Roadhouse 35
Sandfire Roadhouse 287
Pardoo 139
Port Hedland 148

Day 23
Whim Creek Hotel lunch
Karratha 233

Day 24
Fortesque River roadhouse 109
Nanutarra roadhouse 163
Exmouth 278
Cape range National Park
615

Day 25
Rest day
Ningaloo

Day 26
Minilya 225
Carnarvon 139
364

Day 27
Wooramel Roadhouse 123
Overlander roadhouse 76
Binnu 191
Geraldton 88
479

Day 28 12 august
Dwellingup 512
Catch up with family

Day 29
Dwellingup Service, tyres 9476km

Day 30
Margaret River
213

Day 31 15th august
Walpole 247
Meet up with Rob B.

Day 32
Walpole rest day

Day 33
Albany 120
Wellstead 126
Ravensthorpe 194
Esperance 187
594

Day 34
Norseman 203
Balladonia 219
Cocklebiddy 220
642

Day 35 19th august
Madura 91
Eucla 181
Nullarbor Roadhouse 196
Yalata 92
564

Day 36
Ceduna 205
Wudinna 211
Port Augusta 260
674 oil change 12410km

Day 37
Flinders Ranges
173

Day 38
Peterborough 211
Yunta 86
Broken hill 197
493

Day 39
Wilcannia 198
Cobar 261
459

Day 40
Nyngan 132
Gilgandra 165
Mudgee 170
467

Day 41 25th august thursday
Home
250

Back to work monday 29th


14251 km

 

[piranha-bro2]

Bloody ace, Marty! I'm jealous (again).

 

[Dellortoman]

I'm not jealous. That's an arse-punishing schedule. I hope your bike has a comfortable seat.

 

[martymoose]

Very! Plus an air hawk. 750 built for comfort not speed, even modified the passenger footpegs for comfortable use

 

[arancia]

Looking forward to the on-the-road reports, best of luck! A bit jealous too that you can take such a long vacation trip,

 

[Vince]

We have a thing in Oz called Long Service Leave, after 10 years of continuous work we get 3 months of pay, base line salary as a paid holiday. Not sure Marty has or is using this. In the building game, this money was levied via Building Projects council fees. A percentage goes into this fund. It's approx $4000. Lots of Industries have this in awards in Oz.

 

[martymoose]

Hi Phil, this is on the same 750 you rode to the settlers arms for lunch, back around 20 years ago! Time flies

 

[martymoose]

No long service leave for me Vince, I move around too much, tool box has wheels for a reason, only way you get different experience, otherwise you fall in a rut.

 

[Vince]

Yep, I was self-employed from 20, moving about constantly. I was a foundation member of that long Service scheme in 1975 as it became an Independent entity, what used to happen was you might have a job for 9 years and 11 months and strangely you would get retrenched just before 10 years losing it all. The Government created a faired scheme where that didn't happen. And now the rub, the scheme collected so much money, Billions over the years a while back the Government dipped into some of it and transferred it to Consolidated Revenue, reducing the schemes investment ability considerably.

 

[arancia]

Hi Phil, this is on the same 750 you rode to the settlers arms for lunch, back around 20 years ago! Time flies

Good work on the rebuild, as I recall it had tremendous torque but struggled to get much past 65mph back then, I imagine you'll need sustained speeds better than that to make your target daily distances, good memories, thank you, hope we'll meet in person again before too long.
It was interesting back then before the era of cell phone maps to find my way back to your place with only a vague idea of the geography and not even a paper map. When I think about that it's good to understand the camaraderie that obsession with this obscure brand can bring!

 

[helicopterjim]

I just looked into as close to a circumnavigation of Canada as is feasible. Not many accessible roads in the north. I came up with a 20,000+ km route and I'm still not getting to all the extremities. Probably a 30 day adventure without too much visiting along the way.

Jim

 

[Jo]

Great plan Marty!

How do you organize the planned oil changes? Does the support vehicle take everything you need with it, or do you handle this with local service points?

I looked at your route and see, that you leave out VIC and ACT. Aren't they offended there ..?


Cheers,
Jo

 

[motoddrob]

Hi Marty,
Is Wlodek and Paul still planning on coming and being support?

 

[redax5]

Great plan Marty!

How do you organize the planned oil changes? Does the support vehicle take everything you need with it, or do you handle this with local service points?

I looked at your route and see, that you leave out VIC and ACT. Aren't they offended there ..?


Cheers,
Jo

damn hard to offend the ACT, that is where all the totally useless politicians gather to work out how to fleece more money out of the Australian public into their own coffers

 

[chrisk]

I rode days 4&5 in reverse, in pissing rain. Not pleasant!

 

[Shajota]

Great plan Marty!

How do you organize the planned oil changes? Does the support vehicle take everything you need with it, or do you handle this with local service points?

I looked at your route and see, that you leave out VIC and ACT. Aren't they offended there ..?


Cheers,
Jo

Don't worry about Vic & Act Jo, they're only a hop skip and jump from Marty!
Look at the great swathe of ignored country to the north - CQ, NQ. FNQ etc and of course we're offended
Only joking Marty been discussed before and you can't go everywhere. Looks a great trip, will still try and work out where to give you a wave as you pass through somewhere in Western Qld...............

 

[Dellortoman]

I looked at your route and see, that you leave out VIC and ACT. Aren't they offended there ..?

Cheers,
Jo

Looking at your post Jo, I see that you left Tasmania out of the list of states/territories that Marty isn’t visiting. I’m more offended by your omission than by Marty choosing to avoid us.

Cheers
Cam

 

[piranha-bro2]

The annual Tassie trip takes care of that, Cam!

 

[Jo]

Looking at your post Jo, I see that you left Tasmania out of the list of states/territories that Marty isn’t visiting. I’m more offended by your omission than by Marty choosing to avoid us.

Cheers
Cam

Oh, caught! Now I have to figure out how to get out of this again ...



I'm still interested to know how Marty plans to organise his oil changes!

 

[cbertozz]

Day 28 Overlander Roadhouse Possibly the worst roadhouse ever but sits in the middle of an amazing lunar landscape.