Well the weather held out for us (well actually the other may get some rain).
We met at Dayboro, there was (in order on photo below) me (V6 Baja), Neil (type 1 Baja) and Dave (EFI Type 4 Baja). Graham was hopping between Neil and Dave's Baja's, and I had my wife along with me for company.
All Baja's!!! Where are all these buggies that people seem to be building?
I took us in through the easiest of the 3 Dayboro end entrances, straight up to the main picnic area. We had a look for warnings at the main map and rangers hut but couldn't see any. The tracks were suprisingly dry and dusty to start with. There were a massive number of cars (which trailer all the trail bikes) parked at the state forest entrance.
As we started the cars again Dave found out his exhaust had decided to crack, it now sounds like a Harley. I then took us down to the Rocky Hole swimming hole. It is a graded dirt road so all pretty easy. There was a quarry off to the right with a pretty insane looking hill, but no-one tried it. The swimming hole had plenty of water.
We then went in search of the Somerset look-out. The first part I knew well and picked the right tracks through the maze that is Mt Mee. There was another little quarry on the right that we played in, Graham should have some pics.
We went through the little pine plantation section, and then had to turn right off to the look-out. The only prob is there are heaps of right turns, and I picked the wrong one. We went along a track I hadn't been on. We came to a large puddle and I charges into it. It was fine 75% across, and then the left side of the car dropped into a big hole and water came up to the windscreen on the left and pushed water under the bonnet somewhere. It flooded through the air con footwell vents all over my feet. Better than pooling under the bonnet I guess. The others learnt from my mistake and went to the right through the water hole. Shortly after Neil's left headlight fell out and Dave picked it up.
The tracks turned into smaller tracks with lots of water-bars and puddles. I was a bit more cautious in the remaining puddles
🙂 The V6 is good for the water-bar hills, I lugged around everywhere in 2nd gear.
I figured I'd taken a wrong turn and stopped. About 10 seconds later 15 trail bikes went flying past from the other direction, lucky we stopped off the main track, or we might have had a head on. The lead guy came flying up the hill at high speed doing a massive wheelstand, it was pretty cool. I asked them which way to the lookout and they pointed the other way which is what I expected. We turned around and found it easy enough.
I then tried to get us back to the main picnic area. We took a wrong turn, but I realised about 1km down and we did a U-turn. I had a few key points to work with from my Dirty weekends book, although my GPS didn't quite agree with them I could figure out basically where to go.
After a snack in the picnic area I decided to head off home, as I've got a few things I need to do this arvo. The other two kept going and I left them to explore the southern tracks which can be a real maze. It also looks like they may get rained on judging by the BOM. If they don't post here tonight, then they are probably still in there lost
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There are a couple more pics here;
http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/mtmee08
Hopefully Graham will stick his pics there later tonight.
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
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www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
