The Putty Road and Forster

Wednesday the 20^th of October 2010

Today was the first good days riding on our adventure in terms of weather and roads,

We left Lithgow via Kurrajong at around 10:30am, the scenery was once again spectacular, but as a rider sometimes you have to concentrate on where you are going. I guess it’s a bit like a kid in a candy store; you want it all but don’t know where to start. My thoughts are you do it a couple of times. First time to see the sights and the next to enjoy the roads. One of the legendary roads out this way is the Putty Road, (234klm stretch of winding roads)

Alan had heard of it by reputation as a great road for riding and it lived up to the hype. The Putty Road takes you into Singleton, which is your typical larger country town, we also continued to see a heap of bikes heading home from the MotoGP.  From Singleton we headed to a one horse town called Bulahdelah. (seriously where do they come up with these names?)

Whilst on the way to Bulahdelah I encountered the strangest Bridge I’ve seen in Australia, it was single lane with timber beams and massive bolts sticking up holding everything in place .I’ve decided that I don’t particularly like this type of bridge given I’ve just got a new front tyre…

At Bulahdelah we reckoned it was time to start looking for accommodation, Alan wanted to camp, as for me I was not so keen on the idea so we headed along the coast which was equally scenic until we came to a fabulous spot called Forster.

We found a hotel called the Lakes and Ocean Hotel right on the foreshore. Our room had bunk beds, (I got the top one) and a  great balcony and all this for $45. So we sat back and had our Boston legal moment (I get to be Denny Crane, Alan gets to be Alan Shaw) smoking cigars and drink bourbon. At this point we decided that the hotel option in country towns is the way to go. Cheap, clean and bike friendly.

Dinner was at the local seafood place, where I discovered that most Barramundi sold in Australia is actually from Thailand and Alan got himself a free ice-cream. It must have been his personality and wit…

Cheers

a