I headed off solo from Apollo Bay on the BMW R1200GS on a Tuesday morning in early May, fully prepared and feeling fine for two weeks on the road in South Australia. As planned, I rode 1150kms to Hawker in the Flinders Ranges in the first two days. But the onset of vertigo (which did … Continue reading Four days on the road and one day in the Flinders Ranges on my motorbike, May 2024
Autumn Hang Glider Flight at Apollo Bay Pristine cool temperate rainforest en route to the launch site on Bruce's tractor. Walking the hang glider to the point where I will start my takeoff run; but only after a hang check to confirm that the carabiner attached to my harness is hooked in to the glider … Continue reading Hang gliding at Apollo Bay, Magpie the border-koolie, Australian fur seals on Little Henty Reef and paragliding at the Bay.
This was my first motorbike ride to the Flinders Ranges without my Nikon camera and telephoto lens. My 150-600mm telephoto lens has seized up and can no longer be satisfactorily focussed manually, and the auto-focus no longer functions. All photos in this post are iPhone photos. This is why there are no eagle photos on … Continue reading Six day ride to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia in late Winter 2023
In May 2023 I did a solo motorbike tour of the Flinders Ranges and the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. I was away for 14 days and I clocked up 4070kms in total. 370kms was on dirt roads in the Flinders. I bought my BMW R1200 GS motorbike new in late 2008. On the second … Continue reading 14 Day Solo Motorbike Ride around the Flinders Ranges and the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia
Saturday dawned bright and still over on the edge of the Great Australian Bight. A powerful and glassy swell was rolling in, to be perfected an hour or so later by a light offshore wind. I knew that all along this coast local surfers would be paddling out at remote breaks not marked by signposts … Continue reading Big clean swell at a remote break on the Great Australian Bight May 2023
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