Jaqhama and Shalako-Lin holiday April/May 2007.

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Jaqhama

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These reports are from the ride Lin and I did around our state of New South Wales.
Lin went from riding a DT 175 one day to the Ducati 680 on the next, and she did great!
For the next 3 weeks she rode alongside me from Sydney all the way down to the Snowy Mountains and then all the way up north to Lightning Ridge.
I am so proud of her!

Let the adventure begin...

Nestled in the centre of a huge valley in the upper Blue Mountains, west of Sydney are the ruins of the old shale mining town of Glen Davis.

Shalako-Lin and I were on our holidays and had never been there before.
So one weekend a couple of weeks ago...

We got up early.
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And rode up into the Blue Mountains.
Early morning mist covering the Megalong Valley, pic taken from the Hydro Majestic Hotel.
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First stop was at the Redleaf Resort for a full English style brekkie.
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Then it was off towards the small mountain town of Lithgow.
Note the tiny brick cottages, these the original miners homes of a half century ago.
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Glen Davis is hidden somewhere amongst those mountains.
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The road is tarred for the first few kms, then it turns into hard packed gravel, then it turns into this.
This is where I came off the BMW, but the sand was so soft neither I nor the bike was damaged.
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I was on my old BMW LS 650 and Lin was on the Ducati 680 speed-kitted track bike. Not the most suitable bikes for talcum powder soft bulldust.
But we battled on and eventually came to this.
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Breathtaking scenery, mountains all around us.
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We set up camp at the free campground, complete with toilets and hot showers.
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Then we went for a bit of a wander, and found some unusual sights.
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We set off on foot for the now derelict shale factory ruins.
Along the way I found the remains of one of the workers?
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The ruins are in an unstable state, many have collapsed, some quite recently, we had to be very careful when we ventured inside the crumbling edifices.
They are, quite literally, ready to topple over.
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Looking up at the intricate brickwork of the old chimneys. We were very careful here, a sneeze would bring this lot down on top of you.
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You can just make out the foliage that has over-grown the top of the chimney in this pic.
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Glen Davis answer to Stonehenge?
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We made our way back to camp and got the billy on and cooked some tucker.
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The next morning we packed up and headed off back to Sydney.
We loved Glen Davis and will return to explore the surrounding dirt trails on our trail bikes at a future date.
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