I actually don’t have any written ride reports from 2012.  However following is a series of photos from various rides I did over 2012.

February FarRide to Nambucca Heads, NSW

Overnight stay at Arding

Sunrise

Ebor Falls

Waterfall way

Nambucca Heads meeting location for lunch

Oxley highway with the twins

Thunderbolts way heading to Gloucester

Ride to Coonabarabran

This trip was specifically for moto-com work for a round of the Australian cycling road racing series.

Coonabarabran has Australia’s premier optical and infrared astronomical observatory at Sliding Springs (that’s what their website claims).  One of the really interesting things that they set up back 1997 was the virtual solar system drive with the sun represented by the 37 metre dome of the telescope and the planets fanning out from there at a rough scale of 1:38,000,000.  The virtual solar system drive fans out in five directions with each planet on a billboard on the side of the road.

Map of solar system drive

Sliding Springs telescope

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto – before it lost it’s planet status

November FarRide to Warren, NSW

Geographic centre of NSW

Warren – meeting location

Old wall in the Garden Cafe, Warren

Sunset – going home