Early Night

Tonight I thought I would ask Mark if he wanted a night, early evening ride, when I got thee with no warning I had to get him out of the bath! But he decided to give it a go, the first time since he was a teenager (30+y'ago).

On the way there I breezed past a 3 foot red belly near Kanes Rd, no drama except the number of bugs meant you had to keep your mouth tightly shut! Arrived at Marks and he didn't take too long to get ready with no notice.

We cruised of towards Kingscliff with plans to cross Duranbah hill via Eviron and Farrants road. We rode along the Casuarina Bike track swerving to avoid all the rabbits. Mark ran out of time so we cut across the Chindera Sewerage treatment development area and played squish the cane toads all the way to the freeway. The road required jumping two gates but they were ok. Not one complaint but I did manage to step between the rails of a cattle grid after I jumped over one.

After getting back to Mark's I left with the intention of returning back along Watti Bishop Rd. Before I got past the first Flood Indicator on Clothiers Creek Rd I spotted a bike and rider on the side of the road. I asked what he was doing? and was he OK? It turned out he was just setting up a tent on the side of the road! A busy peak hour through road at that and this area was still suffering from inundation. The water was only about 3 meters off the side of the road. As he would not have had a good nights sleep I suggested I lead him to Hastings Point to get a camp spot. He agreed so off we went. It turned out it was his very first stage on his first ever tour he had ridden until he could ride no more. About 70+km down from Southport, and was really loaded up.

Anyway I left him at the camp ground and returned home.