ride4acure

Left the beautiful North Haven at about 8am, had intended to leave earlier but it was so lovely to be sitting with friends  Janine Taranto and Jim Bignell drinking tea and telling stories. Had a lovely early morning ride on the ferry and headed off down the Oxley Highway to head to Camden Haven near Kew for a presentationat  Camden Haven High School with all of year 7. They were really engaging, 20 of the students had entered the ‘slogo’ competition with some very clever entries that’ll be hard to beat. Every time I present I think of ways to improve what I’m delivering. sharper, more succinct ways of saying things that capture the kids attention and understanding. I am happy to say that Camden Haven is also going to have a fundraiser for ride4acure and also have some merchandise to sell too.  The ride to Camden Haven was delightful at nearly 40 kms, took me just under two hours, of course plenty of wind today but thankfully not so hot! And for the first time in ages no marauding magpies attacking me. I see lots of birds on the highway, and what is beautiful at present is all the flowering native hibiscus along the sides of the highway.

I saw two seperate brake drums today and a wide variety of engine hoses and amazingly what I see a lot of is the ‘balancing’ bits that go on tyres.   Makes me wonder how there’s not more vehicles broken down as sometimes the ‘shoulder’ looks like a Repco shop! The highlight of ‘how do they do it’ today was a big 4wd wagon towing a dual axle caravan flat out with two left hand side flat tyres down to the rim, with sparks flying off for a metre, the noise was incredible and the driver kept on roaring down the highway at about120 kms per hour oblivious to the catastrophe they were towing down the pacific highway. Roadkill today included two foxes, a turtle, a blue tongue lizard, a couple of birds and about three owls and a fox…all that in 40 kms! Thank you to the dozens of people texting me messages of support . I love to receive them, they keep me powering on. I had a radio interview today with the Taree station, and also a newspaper interview for the Camden Haven news.  Am heading to bed now for a very early start tomorrow.

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