Home town advantage! and on towards Kyogle.

Today we made our way through to Coffs Harbour. Eddie was privileged to lead the bunch to the Pet Porpoise Pool. Eddie and I were very proud to be showing off our home town. It was great to see familiar faces at the PPP. Hads, Sinc, Kath, Jeff, Hoss, Mary, Judy, Alison, Lauren and Michael were at morning tea to greet us as we came in.

We stayed a bit longer than usual at morning tea and spoke about our ride so far and how it is all going, and what we have left to do. 2 days left, over 650km covered, about 270 km to go.

Pack 6 all stopped for a great photo in front of the Big Banana, it will be a good photo to put on the wall to remind of us of the ride and the new friends we have made.

Eddie was to be first to the top of Bruxner, just getting there ahead of Crackers (home town advantage played a big factor in the race up the hill and also the fact that I think Crackers keeps Bundy and Cola in business all by himself.)

Few guys did it tough in the bunch today. It isn't an easy ride to Grafton the back way, all rolling hills and no flat sections at all. But we all made it safely into Grafton and had another great feed at dinner time thanks to the staff at Grafton Districts Services Club. Judy and I were the talking point of the night looking spectacular in our Comminsure polo's.

Today we ride to Kyogle, it will unknown territory from now as we have never ridden out this way before.

A nice nights sleep in the Crown Hotel in Grafton, and again leaving at 8am to rolling country side to Whiporie for morning tea. The roads were quiet and we sped along towards Casino for lunch. The roads were nice and flat and our average speed was able to increase slightly due to some of the stronger riders taking big turns on the front breaking the wind and making it easier for the rest of the bunch.

I met Judy at the Kyogle branch and we had some photos out the front with the branch manager Stephanie and financial planner Glenda and Judy.

Nathan the financial planner from Ballina came to visit me at Kyogle which was a very nice surprise.

Only 1 day left to go, very exciting!