Wildflowers + South coast

[Cookie]

Plotting another Wildflower trip - Ravensthorpe, Esperance and return via a mixture of surfaces and interesting routes, potentially house each night, leave Friday 18th September, return Sunday 20th.

Let me know if you would like to be involved, there will be dirt roads - but we can schedule an alternate route if you want to slip along on black top and meet up on the other side.

[Bozo]

Cookie

How quickly you have migrated to the brown bear side of the club.....I can remember wildflower runs with only blacktop.

Should be simpler to enjoy the gravel on a GS rather than an RT.

Bozo

[wightman]

Pencil me in.....

I would probably go most of the way on blacktop.....

I want to sleep over Saturday night in Hopetoun, gotta nail 34S 120E. For those of you who don't know what this is, check out www.confluence.org. It's only 3kms from the coast, just inside the park (10 kms from Hopetoun) We need a small boat.

[jono]

John I have a kayak you can use, persuade lefty to take his trailer and forgo his swag arrangement for a kayak

[spacey1]

30 foot yacht... ja

kayak... nein

Paddling a kayak across 3km of the Great Southern Ocean, home of every reason I'm paranoid about the sea.

I saw 'Jaws' when it first came out

I've seen seas change from calm to 6 metres in less than an hour, none of it the least bit funny...

[spacey1]

However, I'm all for the confluence recon and photo.

Ask cookie to take one of his model planes with a camera mounted. Then fly it over.

Can't wait for LilyCam to come out...

https://www.lily.camera/

[Cookie]

Hello John W
I was planning to stay over in Hopetoun on the Friday night, to allow anticlockwise route.

A trip to the pub on Friday evening may lead to talking a local with a boat into taking you out on Saturday morning if the weather is okay - would be a reasonable sized trip - as there are not many places to launch a boat in the national park.

[KoosWA]

Pencil me in.....

I would probably go most of the way on blacktop.....

I want to sleep over Saturday night in Hopetoun, gotta nail 34S 120E. For those of you who don't know what this is, check out http://www.confluence.org. It's only 3kms from the coast, just inside the park (10 kms from Hopetoun) We need a small boat.

Great discoveries you have in this club.......like this Confluence "project". Totally up my alley as a closet amateur geographer! Now where can I point the bike....

I'm sure Bozo is already plotting all of the WA ones into a ride[s].

[Bozo]

Koos

They all seem to fall in the middle of paddocks well away from main roads.

The one in the metro area falls in a golf course. -32, 116 is within the Hartfield Country Club.

Not sure I see the value proposition...now if the challenge was to visit the nearest bakery to the confluence that would be different.

I suspect Digger is a more likely candidate to do a Confluence Video...."g'day GPSers ....here we are at -31, 118 half way between the Mokami Nature Reserve and Ardath...not a lot happening other than me repairing a flat tyre...anyway back to work slackers until you become a whole number".

Bozo

[wightman]

Hi Cookie. good idea to sleep over Friday night. Can do that. It would be nice to nail this confluence, as we would be the FIRST but if we can't get a boat, we could nail one of the local ones and at least get our names (as a Club) up on the Web. We are NOT a weird subculture, are we?

John

[profoundly_disturbed]

We are NOT a weird subculture, are we?

John

This forum may not the best place to ask that question.

If it wasn't for weird subcultures, the only culture some people would have, is what grows between their toes and other obscure body recesses.

[wightman]

You meet the most interesting people when you are tackling confluences

http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-26&lon=25