Donna Buang cruise 17-Oct-2010 - First post updated Oct-15

[Jtek]

Thanks Ric for organising (and for letting me tag along to healesville as my navigator (castek) was unavailable due to unforseen circumstances ) and all the boys that came along for some good driving and nice rides.
Thanks to Castek for standing me up at ring rd maccas jk lol hope all is well buddy

[castek]

Thanks Ric for organising (and for letting me tag along to healesville as my navigator (castek) was unavailable due to unforseen circumstances ) and all the boys that came along for some good driving and nice rides.
Thanks to Castek for standing me up at ring rd maccas jk lol hope all is well buddy

Any time I've got some time off work to recover. Had some bad Chinese food, needed the stomach cleaned out and on some antibiotics to prevent anything else happening


From what I see I missed a really good day

[Ric]

Thanks Ric for organising (and for letting me tag along to healesville as my navigator (castek) was unavailable ....

No problem.
For those that didn't hear, Joe was pulled up in Diamond Creek at 7am, looking in his Melways for how to get to Healesville, when he saw me coming along the same road, and followed me the rest of the way there.
(I didn't recognise his car, but figured he must be "one of us" )

[Jtek]

Oh! is that where i was

[Sentinel]

Looks like a great time was had by all.

Did the snow bugger up the drive?? Looks like a few dirt roads needed to be taken.

Cheers

[Ric]

Did the snow bugger up the drive??

No, not at all. The only road that was actually covered in snow was closed, so we had to walk the last 200m up to the summit.

Looks like a few dirt roads needed to be taken.

Cheers

Just one. There was a 10km stretch in the road from Healesville directly to the summit. Once we got there, there was no easy alternative to avoid it, so we kept going.

[Sentinel]

Would have been a bit of yeeee-haaaa going on around some of those corners in the dirt then?? Colin McC. style! LOL.

Apologies on not making it and the late notice Ric - family...

Cheers

[MH3.0R]

The gravel bit was my mistake. I had checked out both ends of the road, the intersection with the Don Road and Mt DB road, all sealed. From the Warburton approach, I also checked and they are both sealed roads. My mistake was to not actually travel the full length as after about 1 k at each end, it all turns to gravel. Street view was no help either as I am sure that it shows good bitumen with a white line.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed my self as tail end charlie, leave a gap, then play catchup. And yes there were some real slippery corners but nothing unmanagable!