+Roderick Eime was given the opportunity to take the new Harley Davidson Sports 500 #Sports500 for a test ride so I thought the 4 ferries ride would be an appropriate run to see what it was like.
Hopfully I will be able to share his thoughts in a future story.
We met at the 7-Eleven at Berowra and after filling the tanks (always start a ride with a full tank) we headed for our
first ferry, the Berowra Waters Ferry.
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| Rod with the Harleys. Nice vest. |
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| DBR with the Harleys. |
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| The opposite shore, As we depart on the ferry. |
From Berowra Waters we headed for our
second ferry, The Sackville Ferry.
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| Awaiting the Sackville Ferry. |
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We crossed the Hawkesbury River on the Sackville Ferry then on for Morning Tea at the oldest Church in Australia,
The Ebenezer Chuch.
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| Rod with the Harleys on the forecourt of the Ebenezer Church |
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| DBR with the Harleys on the forecourt of the Ebenezer Church |
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| Part of the old graveyard. |
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| The Church. |
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| The Church still holds services. |
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| The Old School where you order your food and beverage. |
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| There is always local produce to take away. |
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| A history lesson in the back room. Upstairs has an old school desk. |
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| Devonshire tea (coffee) is served. |
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| The scones await the unveiling. |
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| Oh, farewell my waistline. |
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| Time to begin. |
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| Always the good guide and host. |
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| Morning tea awaits. |
After Morning tea, we returned to the Harleys for the next river crossing at our
third ferry, the Lower Portland Ferry.
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| A Massey Ferguson in retirement on the side of the road at Ebenezer. |
We paused just after leaving the Church as Rod had spotted an old tractor in a paddock next to the road. He told he photos old tractors for a friend.
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| Lower Portland Ferry. |
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| Rod on the Lower Portland Ferry. |
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| DBR on the Lower Portland Ferry. |
An interesting road lead us to Wiseman's Ferry for our next crossing. The were a few moments where we nearly did make it as the road is narrow and the cars coming the other way around the corners were wider than normal. When travelling on this road exercise caution. The gravel is now only a hundred metres in two sections.
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| Crossing on the Wiseman's Ferry ferry. |
As we crossed the Hawkesbury River at our
fourth ferry, the Wiseman's Ferry ferry and by the other side, we had travelled the 4 Ferries, our journey continued to lunch at Spencer.
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| Wiseman's Ferry ferry |
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| The Spencer Village Store |
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| Rod, the Sports 500 and The Spencer Village Store. |
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| Rod making sure he is in shot. |
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| Burger with the works and an Iced Coffee. It's been a long ride! |
From Spencer we were bound for Newcastle though some more back roads called and we answered. I had never been to Yarramalong and will have to return another day to check out the Devonshire teas at Yarramalong Manor. Any excuse for another ride. We took the old Pacific Highway past Doyalson and filled at Elizabeth Bay, the trip being 210 kilometres tat that stop and neither of us knew how far a Sports 500 would go on a tank. It had only 2/3 of the Softail Deluxe's thirst.
The day's journey ended at the
Best Western Plus Apollo International Hotel at Charlestown.
It doesn't come under the motorcycle friendly grouping but there is undercover parking, well away from the prying eyes of the street. I had another day's ride to come home so wasn't concerned about washing Show Pony.
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| The Show Pony protects the little one. |
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| The View from our room. |
A freshen up and dinner was next on our schedule.
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| 1st Course Entree as selected by chef Sam. |
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| 1st Course wine to compliment our Entree as selected by chef Sam. |
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| 2nd Course Mains as selected by chef Sam. |
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| 2nd Course wine to compliment our Mains as selected by chef Sam. |
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| 3rd Course Dessert as selected by chef Sam. He know better than to have us drink another glass of wine. |
An interesting sleep as I was entertained during the night by Rod's renditions of motorcycle sounds though it did sound like snoring. OK, I was warned.
The next day we parted company but first breakfast to ensue we have enough energy to our rides.
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| No need for help selecting this menu. |
Post breakfast I packed and headed back to Sydney but I did have a stop at another favourite motorcycle food stop. The Pie In the Sky AKA The PITS.
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| The line ups. The steeds await the riders' orders. |
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| And I still couldn't get all the motorcycles in. |
And so the weekend ended, most memorable.
I hope you enjoyed reading this.
#RideWithDBR
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