The Wild GeeseAny Sunday Feb 5
Australian Motorcycle Museum, Haigslea.
A good number of Wild Geese arrived at the Eumundi P.O. in time for a nice early start in perfect weather. We rode down to Forest Glen to pick up the southern contingent and then swung out along the Peachester road from Beerwah, picking up Brendan at Peachester. A very straight forward and easy ride down through Kilcoy and Somerset Dam with some entertaining Harley overtaking along the way
and then down the eastern side of Lake Wivenhoe through Fernvale to the museum at Haigslea.
The swap meet at the museum was packing up as we arrived and some of our mob missed out on the food! Tummy rumbles for some eh?
Some of us ventured into the museum to view the collection of very nice and unusual motorcycles from all eras. It is always very interesting to listen to the comments of folk wandering around these places. "I had one of those" & "I rode around Australia on one of those back in '68!", etc. Everything from AJS to Zundapp with quite a few VERY juicy ones as well thrown in for good measure. The underfed members were soon gnawing on their twistgrips, so we then headed back up to Fernvale for a hearty meal for those that were near starvation or a refreshing drink on this very hot day for the parched members.
The time to leave arrived and we mounted our beasts again and headed back up the Lake Wivenhoe road retracing our steps to the north. We noticed quite a lot of light flashing, hand waving and throat cutting motions being made by oncoming traffic, not to mention the flashing blue light on the top of the Highway Patrol car going the other way and two ambulances to boot. It was obvious that something was up ahead. We managed to get quite a long way up the side of the lake to Sandy Creek (almost to Somerset Dam actually!!) when we came around a corner and there was a police van across the road A really truly roadblock!! It seems that just ahead on the bridge over the creek was the site of a nasty fatal accident and the whole road was closed for about 2 hours prior to investigation! Not even a skinny little motorcycle was allowed through. 
So, we could go all the way back around the bottom of the Lake and up through Esk or back to the Mt. Glorious Road. A unanimous vote for the Mt Glorious Rd. was no surprise and so that was the way home with surprisingly little traffic for a Sunday. Lovely shaded bend swinging for kilometer after kilometer.
From Samford, we headed north up the Mt. Mee Rod. until the right turn down the gloriously twisty little Campbells Pocket Road to Wamuran on the D'Aguilar Hwy. Big grins at the bottom North from Wamuran to the Old Gympie Road and back onto the Steve Irwin Way and home.
My tally for the day - 495 klms & nearly six hours riding time. A very good day in great company. Route taken is shown here
Good to see a well constructed ride & a goodly number participating again. Have been wondering why the Geese have been so quiet. Cheers, Snow Goose ps Where's the pics of those that rode?
