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Charleen actually got me going on this ride.

She was itching for a ride and Saturday evening set out the towns to go to on Sunday morning.
Woke me at 5.30am - "Let's Go!  Before someone else gets it!"

I crawled in to the shower.  Out again and half awake I inquired, "Isn't today WingRiders ride day?"
Checked 'puter.

Sure is.  Can't not do the Wing Ride.   Bottom lip sags.

But she is a trooper and we had a leisurely breakky and joined the WIngRiders for a great day.  Only problem was the video camera failed during the day with an I/O error on the SD card.  Lost hours of video of Goldwings cruising the hills.  Damn.

Sunday night Charleen suggests I go test the camera again by doing the "Recession" route she had planned.  After all, someone else might get it before next weekend.

So today, while Charleen headed off to battle city traffic on her CB1300, I rang a mate and begrudgingly climbed aboard the GoldWing for a day of testing.   Life is tough.

Met up with Camo at Carseldine and we headed out to Samford for the first photo.


Back through a little traffic towards Redcliffe and pulling up just over the Hornibrook Bridge wasn't easy.  But we managed.


Then up the highway and find the small town of Ningi on the Bribie Island Road.  The only sign was through town and on the way back and pull over in the long grass.


Back to Caboolture - that was an easy one.


Then up the old Bruce Highway to the tiny town of Elimbah where we got some lunch.
Pulling up here was half in a ditch and the 'Wing kept trying hard to fall over.


Then back past Caboolture and west to Wamuran before a fun blast up into the mountains along Campbells Pocket Road.  This road is very narrow and steep and scary when you meet oncoming on a sharp blind right-hander.  But we managed and through Mt Mee to Ocean View.  I believe you can from properties nearby, but not from the road.


Selecting the next stop on the GPS showed it to be only 19.8 km away.  But in between was some very steep cliffs and a large dam.  So we stuck to the 75km path via Woodford, Villeneuve - Rusjel and Greybeard know this road - Kilcoy and down beside the dam to Somerset Dam village.
At one stage we caught up to the locally ubiquitous 4WD+boat so stopped for a while to admire the view.


If you want, you can see a full-size wide screen panorama here.  But it is a 4.75MB download.

The little town of Somerset Dam was nearby.


The run in to Esk was a quick one and we stopped for a welcoming coffee at the Esk Bakery.


A quick stop at the city limits to Ipswich and we had the lot covered.


I did a total of 391km in just on 8 hours for the day and even marked most of the points on SPOT (forgot ESK  )
http://jasonjonas.org/spot/tripViewer.do?id=1116

All in all, a great day for a ride in beautiful weather through very pretty countryside and some interesting roads.
Thanks Charleen for the plan.  (Thank goodness she loves me or I'd be dead by now.  )