The other ride to Nannup - prelude to Gnomesville
Posted: Sun 24 Nov, 2013 8:11 pm
4 couples Tom and Marion, Nev and Terry-Ann, Gav and Lu,Bill and Doris and drop in Rhonda on her 3wheeled Spider met at Cats Sat morning for the big trip down to the Loose Goose. The start time was supposed to be 9 sharp but !!! Much talk, food and coffees later we departed at 9.50 with NevS trusty GPS taking us thru the sights of Albany Hwy all the way to Armadale and then to the South-West hwy. We obediently followed thinking Nev had a plan with this rather tedious route but no when we eventually stoped down the road 1.5 hours later he mentioned that the GPS was trying to direct us to the coast but he didn't believe it, anyway on. We went 
. We veered off to head on to Collie where we stopped for a break. Gav then took over the lead and we headed to the Mumbleup Pub for a Mumby burger for lunch which everyone seemed to enjoy but all felt that they had over eaten. We then headed off towards Kirup then Balinup -Nannup road where we dropped in to see Mike Henderson who has parked his mobile rig on his mates vineyard. Much talk and we left Mike at about 4ish and headed off to the Loose Goose arriving at about 5ish. These roads were something else with everyone enjoying multitudes of twistys great weather and a great bunch of ride mates. Terry-Ann excelled in her inaugual big distance ride on fairly difficult roads with the speeds her fellow riders were riding.
Arriving at the loose Goose we were met by the very pleasant owners and they directed us to our chalets Terry-Ann, Nev, Doris and Bill in one and the rest in another. We all decided these were very nice and comfortable with the softest water that I have ever experienced a shower with.
Grant and Laraine have a great venue with 42 acres surrounded on 3 sides by state Forrest and they have a 150 pers function centre and 3 chalets scattered thru the natural Forrest. Laraine is a animal rescue official and much to Lu's delight brought out 3 rescued kangaroo joeys that were only weeks old. They also had a collection of every noisy bird available including peacocks roosters, you name it they had it along with donkey's goats sheep, dogs etc.
When we arrived they offered to take us all into town for a pub meal then and pick us up again after we had finished which we all felt was way beyond the call of duty. We had a great pub buffet at $25 per head for a great arrangement of various dishes and desert .We all returned back to our digs extremely tired after such a big day of riding and all the other things . The Bill and coy digs hit the sack almost immediately but the others whose chalet was close to the other 3rd chalet which was occupied by some boozed out of their brains party yobbos had to put up with their noise into the wee hours. Tom Gav and coy reciprocated the next morning with a early start which consisted of revving the hell out of their BMW Bavarian noise makers and also sounding their horns early the next morning. This commotion also disturbed the Bill and coy chalet whom didn't hear any of the party chalet noise being far enough away and still hadn't got up at this stage. We thought not knowing the history what inconsiderable Bs
Anyway they went off to meet up with Mike Henderson who had arranged to meet up for breakfast in town. Our lot took their time to leave and left about an hour later and met up also for breakfast. We met up with the Swedish lady doing a motorbike article that asked for help in this forum site who was also having breakfast coincidently at Nannup that morning. We will be staring in her magazine article.
The weather had turned to rain now so the trip back was put off for as long as possible. With some drinking up to 3 coffees and having eaten enough breakfast to justify all the days food intake. We eventually faced up to the realisation that we had to face the rain and off we went home bound with Gav leading the troops. Unfortunately we seemed to get a bit lost at one stage and ended up doing a big loop thru the state forrest ending up where we started. Eventually with the rain being fairly consistent we travelled back on those brilliant roads which we had such a great time on the day before , speeds were toned down considerably compared to the day before but still great riding we eventually reached our destination at gnomesville :mrgreen which Lu had been looking forward to all weekend: We couldn't find the BMW gnome as other party's expeditory expeditions also have tried to find but couldn't.
We then returned home via the Pinjarra bakery for a pie. Great ride great company and a memorable weekend. Highly recommended.
Bill
. We veered off to head on to Collie where we stopped for a break. Gav then took over the lead and we headed to the Mumbleup Pub for a Mumby burger for lunch which everyone seemed to enjoy but all felt that they had over eaten. We then headed off towards Kirup then Balinup -Nannup road where we dropped in to see Mike Henderson who has parked his mobile rig on his mates vineyard. Much talk and we left Mike at about 4ish and headed off to the Loose Goose arriving at about 5ish. These roads were something else with everyone enjoying multitudes of twistys great weather and a great bunch of ride mates. Terry-Ann excelled in her inaugual big distance ride on fairly difficult roads with the speeds her fellow riders were riding.Arriving at the loose Goose we were met by the very pleasant owners and they directed us to our chalets Terry-Ann, Nev, Doris and Bill in one and the rest in another. We all decided these were very nice and comfortable with the softest water that I have ever experienced a shower with.
Grant and Laraine have a great venue with 42 acres surrounded on 3 sides by state Forrest and they have a 150 pers function centre and 3 chalets scattered thru the natural Forrest. Laraine is a animal rescue official and much to Lu's delight brought out 3 rescued kangaroo joeys that were only weeks old. They also had a collection of every noisy bird available including peacocks roosters, you name it they had it along with donkey's goats sheep, dogs etc.
When we arrived they offered to take us all into town for a pub meal then and pick us up again after we had finished which we all felt was way beyond the call of duty. We had a great pub buffet at $25 per head for a great arrangement of various dishes and desert .We all returned back to our digs extremely tired after such a big day of riding and all the other things . The Bill and coy digs hit the sack almost immediately but the others whose chalet was close to the other 3rd chalet which was occupied by some boozed out of their brains party yobbos had to put up with their noise into the wee hours. Tom Gav and coy reciprocated the next morning with a early start which consisted of revving the hell out of their BMW Bavarian noise makers and also sounding their horns early the next morning. This commotion also disturbed the Bill and coy chalet whom didn't hear any of the party chalet noise being far enough away and still hadn't got up at this stage. We thought not knowing the history what inconsiderable Bs
Anyway they went off to meet up with Mike Henderson who had arranged to meet up for breakfast in town. Our lot took their time to leave and left about an hour later and met up also for breakfast. We met up with the Swedish lady doing a motorbike article that asked for help in this forum site who was also having breakfast coincidently at Nannup that morning. We will be staring in her magazine article. The weather had turned to rain now so the trip back was put off for as long as possible. With some drinking up to 3 coffees and having eaten enough breakfast to justify all the days food intake. We eventually faced up to the realisation that we had to face the rain and off we went home bound with Gav leading the troops. Unfortunately we seemed to get a bit lost at one stage and ended up doing a big loop thru the state forrest ending up where we started. Eventually with the rain being fairly consistent we travelled back on those brilliant roads which we had such a great time on the day before , speeds were toned down considerably compared to the day before but still great riding we eventually reached our destination at gnomesville :mrgreen which Lu had been looking forward to all weekend: We couldn't find the BMW gnome as other party's expeditory expeditions also have tried to find but couldn't.
We then returned home via the Pinjarra bakery for a pie. Great ride great company and a memorable weekend. Highly recommended.
Bill
