Distance travelled: 458 kms.
Cumulative distance: 13,067 kms.
Sponsored by: Paul Margerson.
Up at sparrows (5.30am) to catch the 8.00 am ferry from Queenscliff to Sorrento. Colin thought he was still over the .05 alcohol limit so decided to wait until later. I got away at 6.00 am, still in the dark and roads damp. It was a nightmare riding in the dark on wet twisty roads. A lot of the oncoming traffic had LED lights that caused a lot of glare on my helmet visor. Everybody agreed it was a nightmare riding in the dark on the Great Ocean Road with all the tight corners. We all made it to the ferry on time and the sea was flat calm so it was a smoothe crossing.
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| The view from the deck of the ferry. |
I had breakfast in Sorrento but everybody else motored on. After breakfasting at a trendy expensive Cafe I took the south Gippsland highway through Foster and Yarram, Sale and on to Bairnsdale. We are staying in Riversleigh a big old house converted into rooms with ensuites, very comfortable. There was a bit of trouble gaining access to our rooms as we had to register on-line to get a code to open our rooms. It was all done by remote control with a little woman on site trying to help us. The SMS with my room code ended up in my Spam!! Eventually everybody got their code and could get into their rooms but it wasn't easy.
We were having a few beers in the carpark when a Tesla turned wanting to use the public charger that we had blocked with our bikes. After we moved them he hooked the car up and started charging. It was a Tesla Model X which starts around A $114,000??? We had a chat with the guy driving the car and he told us it was his daughter's and he didn't know much about the car. He gave a donation to our charity after we offered him a free beer.
Dinner was in a local pub where the food was pretty good.
It is the last official day of the ride tomorrow to Batemans Bay.
