Gingers Creek For Lunch
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‘There’d been coastal showers on and off all week, and that meant inland tracks would be dry, right? Because they’re not on the coast?’ Hopper was allocated just one day of freedom and headed for lunch at the famous Gingers Creek café on the Oxley Highway near Wauchope, NSW.
A sensible rider at this point would have gone to Plan B.
With restrictions temporarily lifted it was time to play.
The backroads to Dungog were lined with plenty of water, and a good blast along Monkerai Road meant, for the first time in over 15 years, crossing the Karuah River on the second-oldest surviving timber truss bridge in NSW. Originally built in the 1880s, and apparently an exceptionally rare example of the type, the bridge had recently had an upgrade.On to Bucketts Way I rolled and into Gloucester for a splash of 98-octane.
