Date:

11 Aug 2018

Location:

Fleurieu Peninsula

Description:

On a cold and wet day in Adelaide, we all meet up at Le Cornu’s carpark at Keswick, well almost all of us. We collected the stragglers as we drove past Castle Plaza. There were noticeably some people’s regular drives missing due to rain. Can’t blame them as my FGX XR8 doesn’t like water either. After all, they are finely tuned automobiles, not boats right! There were 10 cars, a good number and considering the weather, a great effort.

We headed off down south via the Southern Expressway, driving through the new South Road works at Darlington which has really progressed. Just as we came off the Expressway, the Sun came out and we left all the rain in Adelaide and enjoyed a really nice cruise down through Aldinga, Myponga, Yankalilla, into Normanville. We were very lucky, and all stayed together very well, except for the occasion typical Adelaide driver who doesn’t know the rule about staying left unless over taking. Got to love these people!

From Normanville we headed further south towards Cape Jarvis along the Coast with some very lovely views both of the coast and inland sweeping hills and valleys. Just after Rapid Bay we turned left on the Range Road - 50 km of lovely sweeping left and rights which can easily be negotiated at 100 km/hr which leads into Victor harbour. We had a quick stop off near the Bluff to pick up Darren’s dad who lives at the top of the hill.

We then cruised into Victor along the beach, to the Esplanade car park and then to the Hotel Crown for lunch. It was Seafood Saturday, so everybody enjoyed a nice lunch and coffee’s before taking a short stroll up the main street just as the rain moved in. We then cruised back along the Victor Harbour Road to Adelaide in some very heavy rain. It was great that we had 20 people on the day and an enjoyable day was had by all.