Distance travelled: 468 kms.
Cumulative distance: 13,535 kms.
Sponsored by: Peter Walshaw.
We were meant to have breakfast at our accommodation, Riversleigh at 7am but there were no staff to set it up (continental breakfast) so we were about to jump on our bikes and head down the road to have beeakfast on the way to Batemans Bay. At around 7.30 am a woman turned up to set up breakfast for an 8am start. She hadn't been told that we were breakfasting at 7am instead of the normal time for the weekends at 8am. She did a great job of quickly setting up the breakfast which we all enjoyed.
It was drizzling when I left at 8am with all my wet weather gear on hoping it wouldn't leak. I rode through Bruthen and Orbost to arrive at Cann River at 10am. Andrew was there already so we had coffee and some sustenance. Then the rest of the group arrived and refuelled. I headed off to Eden behind Erica and Graham. It was overcast and there was an occasional light shower but nothing to challenge my waterproof gear. The weather cleared with even some sunshine by the time I got to Eden where I refuelled. There are some really pretty villages on the coast between Eden and Batemans Bay like Pambula, Merimbula, Tathra and Bermagui. I didn't bother detouring to see them as I had been there in March on a mid-week overnight ride.
I arrived at the motel at 2.30pm and was the first to do so.
In the evening Sue Walter was at the dinner along with Barry the manager of the Steven Walter Chikdrens Cancer Foundation with his wife Chris. Sue said that the foundation has collected more than $10 million in donations since it started in 2001. A new facility is being built at the Sydney Childrens Hospital for research into childrens cancer. It will be the biggest such facility in the southern hemisphere. One of the laboratories will be named "The Steven Walter Laboratory".
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| From left to right, Barry the manager of SWCCF, Sue Walter and Barry's wife Chris. |
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| This is Kathey and Andrew Manthey the organisers of the ride. |
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| L to R, Graeme, Suzie and Wayne. |
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| L to R, Sue, Greg H and Greg W. |
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| L to R, Paul and the mad doctor Nick. |
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| L to R, Dave the only Ducati rider, his wife Denby and Ensa Paul's wife. |
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| L to R, Greg H, Greg W and Adrian. |
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| Andrew and Rod the sweeper driver. |
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| L to R, Erica, Pam (Rod's wife) and Andrew. |
