Kaipara 600 two-day Adventure Ride

[Bams]

Hi all
I'm thinking of joining in for the day on Saturday if this is ok will ride back to Auckland that night.
(pending baby and kids sitter works out but so far looking promising.)

[MXNUT]

Hi all
I'm thinking of joining in for the day on Saturday if this is ok will ride back to Auckland that night.
(pending baby and kids sitter works out but so far looking promising.)

Glad to have you along if you can make it.

For those of you not staying on the friday night we will leave from the Caltex Service Station at Wellsford on the intersection of SH1 & SH16
at 8.00am

Early Start but we need to get away early to catch the low tide at Pouto point.

[.chris]

Cool, I am booked in for the Sat night at the Wellsford Inn.
Will be doing the early Sat AM run up to join you guys at 8am.

[clint640]

In! Rosie & I are booked in at Wellsford Sat night & will be joining Chris for the early run up from Auckland.

Cheers
Clint

[calfinm]

Another Sat early start here , booked in Sat at Hotel...Looking forward to it.

[MXNUT]

Weather forecast for the weekend is looking like there will be no dust and plenty of traction.

[.chris]

Weather forecast for the weekend is looking like there will be no dust and plenty of traction.

It will be fine, weather forecasting is a joke. Says raining, possibly hail today and it is currently sunny outside.
It has rained about 18x times today, but no hail.... bloody idiots.

[xdodox]

Hi Guys. My Name is Daniel and nobody knows me... Just let you know....I booked two nights at Wellsford Inn, as well. Start tomorrow at Auckland after work to wellsford. Should be about 06.30. I hope the weather the not bad for us for both days.
Mixnut, i guessing you have a GPS track already done for both days. Is it possible to get the GPX track files? May send it ???
Guys... see you saturday morning.

[Crisis management]

Mixnut, i guessing you have a GPS track already done for both days. Is it possible to get the GPX track files? May send it ???

I do love an optimist..... let us introduce you to the corner man system!

The weather will be fine, it never rains when I go for a ride, absolutely guarantee you fine, calm weather with a gentle breeze to keep the dust off the road and the sweat off your brow.

Due to me being a slack arse, we aren't leaving till 4.00pm so it's straight up the road tomorrow, see you all saturday morning.

[MXNUT]

Hi Guys. My Name is Daniel and nobody knows me... Just let you know....I booked two nights at Wellsford Inn, as well. Start tomorrow at Auckland after work to wellsford. Should be about 06.30. I hope the weather the not bad for us for both days.
Mixnut, i guessing you have a GPS track already done for both days. Is it possible to get the GPX track files?

Hi Daniel, I will see you at the Wellsford Inn Tonight, I will be getting there about the same time.
As Crisis says I dont use a GPS / Devil box but prefer the old school approach with maps ( my GPS lives in the boat ). There wont be too many of us so the corner man system should work fine.

I do love an optimist..... let us introduce you to the corner man system!

The weather will be fine, it never rains when I go for a ride, absolutely guarantee you fine, calm weather with a gentle breeze to keep the dust off the road and the sweat off your brow

Note to all the others....... I forgot that Crisis was coming along so you know what that means, there will be torrential rain - hail and possibly even snow for the first time in northlands history.

Better come well prepared

[Rosie]

Note to all the others....... I forgot that Crisis was coming along so you know what that means, there will be torrential rain - hail and possibly even snow for the first time in northlands history.

Better come well prepared

We missed out on snow for the midwinter ride... so this weekend is our big chance

[dino3310]

starting to wonder if Crisis is a direct descendant of Thor

[MXNUT]

Its karioke night at the local & its going off for wellsford.

[Bams]

Hi All
Sorry to say work has called me in so I can,t make the ride

Have a good ride
ken

[.chris]

Well that sure was a great weekend of riding, really makes me think I should get up north a bit more often. Thanks for organising Mark.

A few photos below. Larger versions of photos can be viewed here



The ride started with some early morning gravel after leaving Wellsford


After a refuel at Dargaville we headed towards Point Poutu via Kellys Bay. The group parked up ready to head onto the beach



On the beach and into the wind


Mark being a general hoon on the beach


The view from the Pt Poutu lighthouse, with a some of the guys trying to get up the dunes. Only a few of us managed to get to the top, 3 KTM 690's a 640 Enduro and a Yamaha WR250 supermoto running some adventure tires, a poor showing for the BMW, Suzuki and Honda teams.


One quite stuck freewind on the dunes


Team KTM at the lighthouse


General chaos in the dunes


Mark taking the quick way down from the lighthouse


From behind the lightouse was almost sheltered from the wind here.


The wind pushing the sand across the beach was very cool looking. Must have been a 60kph+ winds which made it a pretty hard trip up the beach to Baylys Beach


Up in the dunes towards Glinks Gully


One slightly broken BMW R80.
Not long after this a bit of light rain started and kept us damp for the trip back to Wellsford, but we were all comfortably installed at the pub having a drink or two when the real rain set in.

At the Wellsford Inn we parked the bikes inside the old bar downstairs (which was great to know the bikes we somewhere safe, it even had an alarm as we found out in the morning when it came time to get the bikes out).


Sunday morning was a more leisurely start at 8:30. After leaving Wellsford we headed down into Port Albert


A brief rest stop at Port Albert



We had about 70km of great flowing gravel before we hit SH16 and the run down into Hellensville

After SH16 we did a quick run up into south head then onto the beach at Wilsons road, the approach to the beach provided a bit of a challenge for some of us


The soft sand can be tricky to navigate, speed is the key, control is also important.


Mark enjoying watching people struggle with the dunes on Muriwai Beach


The dakar in the dunes


Sometimes the little bikes need a some help.


Clint taking the dunes at great pace, almost a little too quick.


Rosie with a gallant attempt at the Wilsons road entry to Muriwai Beach


Even the big bikes (with road tires) need a hand or two


Clint was nice enough to deliver Rosies bike to the top of the dunes, his parking style is unusual to say the least.


Managed a jump in the back of the dunes, nothing huge might be a 3ft drop into soft sand.


A nice end to the day after lunch at the cafe in Muriwai we stopped to enjoy the view back up the beach from the lookout above the Muriwai Gannet colony