Tamworth to the Blue mountains.

Well what a day today has been I have ridden close to 450km, so consequently I am feeling quiet stiff at the moment. I left Tamworth at 0630 this morning, I was going to ride Via Captain Thunderbolts way, however After doing some research I discovered that the road that I was going to take from Tamworth was very narrow in places, ordinarily that in itself wouldn't worry me however It looked like rain and visibility would have been crap.

It was very cool this morning and I had to dig out my warm shirt to warm me up, I decided to take the highway down to Singeleton and to take the Putty road the plan was to camp at Colo Heights Caravan park....As they say the best laid plans of mice and men....I managed to get lost and instead of taking the putty road the GPS took me down a road I have travelled on before called the Wollombi road, a great bike road anyway but I really did want to try the putty road...Damn GPS I think I will stick to paper maps and use the GPS for city roads.

When I arrived at Singelton It started to rain and continued to pour until I arrived at Windsor, so consequently I didn't camp today a decided to head up to the Blue Mountains for the night, tomorrow I will head down to my Craenbrook to visit cousin Robert. Due to the rain I didn't stop to take any photos today, so you will have to take my word for the fact that I got to appreciate some beautiful countryside.

The highlight of the day was when I rounded a corner approximately 10 km outside of Broke I spotted a huge Wedge tail Eagle feeding on a dead Kangaroo in the middle of the road, I got within a few feet of the bird before he flew away, he flew up into a tree, unfortunately there was no where to stop on the road otherwise it would have made an excellent shot. So even though it was raining all day I still had a most satisfying day and I appreciated the fact that I was on The Spyder with all it's safety features, it ate up the many slippery corners on the Wollombi road with out a problem, well folks until next time.....