Saturday 15th September.

Time to plant at Travis Wetland so a long flat ride organised with an early start of 8.20am.  Mellonfarmer, Dozer, Bugs, Silverfox and Tinkerbell arrived and we headed off towards the planting.  Started down Radley, through the cemetry then into the next cemetry before riding Maces Rd behind the ponds, right towards Bridge St.  Crossing the munted bridge before the left onto the stop bank.  The first section is quite knewly updated so shingle was thick but as you get closer to new Brighton it becomes more damaged.  makes for an interesting ride requiring more energy as you work over the bumps etc of the stop bank.  We followed this all the way to the front entrance of Horseshoe Lake.   We attempted to ride through here but it was a big fail.  By time we got halfway trees were down everywhere and the track became submerged so we backtracked and shot out the Burwood side of this.  Big munted red zone.  Wow.  Went around the back of the reserve admiring previous plantings.  After getting all the way around shot down Burwood Rd before circumnavigating Travis Wetland.  Once again admiring plantings that we were involved in.  Planting 2000 plants with assistance of  55 other people.  Had a qucik bbq sausage and pattie before heading off.  This time we went through the middle of Travis and then headed back to New Brighton Rd.  We followed the river all the way to North Avon Rd (lots of sadness through the red Zone) then around for  a Piss  stop at Mellonfarmers.  From here we rode past Avonside grils and started to separate as we neared home.  Silverfox and I finally went separate ways at Opawa Rd.  This is a total of 40km for me and more for  a few of the others.  Felt rather good too!!