Today was the annual vic GOR cruise. Not GOR as in gore, but rather the Great Ocean Road cruise. And I guess it wasnt really annual as it should have been in november last year, but we cant let technicalities ruin a good story. Anyway, meeting point was the usual shell servo on Todd road just before the westage bridge "hmmm, do I eat my donut, or toss it at cols car?" Lazy zed parking.. and so we set off..... With the fear of hidden speed cameras all the way to geelong, everyone was well behaved on the roads.... Seads car... The Blipman mobile.. Col, I cant see any hands on the steering wheel.. Zeds take over the road... We briefly stopped in Geelong to pick up Grant (DSCM)... Doug trying to stop traffic..... maybe it should have been called the GORE cruise..:LOL::LOL: Ok, so lets go over the switches starting from left to right: Switch 1 - Fire laser turrets at slow busses and vans on GOR who refuse to pull over.. Switch 2 - release oil slick to cause havoc in traffic behind.. Our next stop was Torquay where we met up with Datzboy and Vince... some sexy arses... We got to Apollo Bay and stretched our legs... While at Apollo Bay we had some drags..... but of the electric kind.. Rob, Col and Mick had their little toys and boy do they go damned fast.... Some good ol circle work... From Apollo bay we headed to Lavers Hill.... possibly the best stretch of the cruise as traffic was minimal and the roads nice and twisty.. Once we got there, we took over the car park of the sole food/rest stop... Lazy parking again... All in all a fantastic day.... the best thing about the GOR is that you can still have fun without breaking the speed limit.. Thanks to Col for the organisation and thanks to everyone else who made it a great day.. Cheers
Great pics Mark !!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: I've always wanted to do the GOR, but haven't been able to yet - most envious. :|:|:| Hope you all had a great time. See you all at Coona !! Cheers, Peter
Nice pics & writeup Mark (as usual)!! I'd like to thank all who turned up and made today such a great day! Pretty close to the best GOR cruise yet!
Re: Nice pics & writeup Mark (as usual)!! Looks like you guys had a good day :thumbsup:...wish i could have come
man i wish i didn't have to work looks like you peoplz had fun on the cruze, i wish i was there, ill try harder next time. very good pics mark as always. cheers alex
Some more pics Mark and I have very similar ideas of what constitutes a good photo-op, so I'll only put up ones substantially different from his. Nice colour Surf Coast????? Typical GOR traffic A lot of the time we were able to hoon along at up to 50kph below the speed limit. No chance of filling VicGov coffers this day! Welcome to sunny Apollo Bay Funny enough, 2-3km inland it was as clear as a bell... just coastal cloud! One last thing... low fuel light at Torquay on the way back to Melb, so I filled at the local BP (Ultimate, of course). Must be something about country fuel, 'cause the poor old girl pinged her tits off all the way home, and has been running poorly ever since. Bottle of octane booster into the tank, I think! And a puddle of P/S fluid at Lavers Hill suggests a leak detection and repair is on the cards. Big thanks Col, lottsa fun.
Thought I'd add a few more photos. I do have some vids, but i gotta figure out how to blur number plates in moving images... <= not to worry, his bonnet was digitally removed... <= I think we scared this Saab off the country road, lol <= got caught in a little traffic going back home through Geelong :S Hope you like them!
Last Photo... Traffic was like that all the way from Geelong to Melb on the way home. Re number plates on vids... just shake the camera and the plates will blur nicely. :LOL:
Great photos, especially the one of Angus! Was good to have you both on your first cruise. EDIT: Don't worry about blurring the video. I'm sure no-one minds their number plates being shown, given that a) we were all very well behaved, and b) the plates in Jedi's pics aren't blurred. Just post the vids! I hope someone has video of the remote control cars...
Good pics andrew.... thats why its great to have a passenger so they can take all the "action" shots while you get busy driving... Cheers
Re: Great photos, especially the one of Angus! Thanks guys we really enjoyed it, cant wait to do it again! About the vids, I think they shake enough as they are I'll quickly upload my vid of the remote cars now (I took a short vid with my still camera) the camcorder footage is burnt to DVD but my PC is having a hissy fit and wont convert properly for the net...I'll try again tomorrow We took over 390 photos a dozen short videos clips on the DSC and around an hour with the camcorder, a lot look similar, so those were the best. If someone wants pics I can see if i have more of their Z. Just PM me
Re GOR cruise Great cruise, the pic`s are grouse Mark. Thanks Col for the chance to finally meet some of the members. We had a great day:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Jedi, I should have known better ..... I can't see your pics on my home PC, so when I saw the comment "some sexy arses", I made a point of checking the post at work! Bikini girls .... NOT!!! Anyway although I couldn't make the cruise, after returning from the airport and fitting my goodies in the evening, I can say that Jack's and my arses should be very comfortable during the Rally Masters this weekend :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:.
Such a fun cruise Thanks Jedi, Andrew and others for the pics, and thanks to Col for organizing, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Ben
