Saturday 27th August

A planting at southshore so Phatboy, Dozer, Silverfox, texas and i set off from mine and headed around richardson Tce, down Radley through the cemetry, across the fence, through the other cemetry onto keighleys Rd then down behind the poo ponds, right onto Breezes and across the bridge. We then took the track along the river heading towards southshore. Nice little spin and way ahead of schedule saw us stop for a bereak along this stretch. back on the bike and carried on to the end of Rockinghorse rd. We planted at the southshore reserve (between us about 250 plants). Tinkerbell arrived to help. Afterwards we all headed off in the reverse direction. At bridge st we headed across the road and follwed the stop banks. Tougher going as some of this was a bit soft. Tinkerbell pulled out at new brighton bridge while the rest of us ploughed on. The stop bank was real soft and rough. We went down onto the old track which had some major cracks and some shitty mud. Carried on over wainoni Rd and texas pulled out at Anzac dr bridge. once again oohed and aahed t the damage. Carried on over some broken pathways, dodging cracks and spinning through more shitty mud. This was all hard work. testing it was. At burwood bridge we crossed over and spun along Avonside dr. Some real shitty damage done around here. A dead zone among the red Zone. Dozer and I stayed on the stop bank as long as we could before joing Phatboy and the fox on the road. Continued around to wainoni Rd. Dozer pulled out at Cuffs rd. We carried on up Kerrs with phatboy pulling out at Woodham. The Fox and I spun hard down to Opawa where the Fox continued on his merry way. A hard ride in the end and i thought it was gonna be easy.