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Thursday 17 November 2005
Day 210
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 On the Ulysses
website is a forum where members can post messages to each other, there’s
discussions about serious matters (bikes), and any topic you can name, not always
bike related. I’ve put up a couple of posts about our trip and had responses
from a few members. Fiona, known to all on the Ulysses forum as Charli 883, has
invited us to stay with her and her husband Alan, when we reach Mandurah. So
that’s where we’re heading today.
We arrived at
Mandurah by about 10am; it’s not a long trip from Perth,
only about an hour. We found Fiona and
Alan’s house quite easily, Alan had given us directions.
We spent the
afternoon talking with Fiona and also Alan when he arrived home later in the
day. They told us of their plans for travelling Australia in a couple of years and
we saw the bus that they intend converting to a motor home, it’s a big project.
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Friday 18 November 2005
Day 211
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I made a couple
of calls inquiring about jobs today. One of the jobs I rang about was already
gone but the agency rang us back within the hour with another similar job. So
Monday we’ll head to the Manjimup employment office to see them about work in Mount Barker.
It’s a little further south than I’d hope we’d get work, but it’s all that’s on
offer at the moment. I left a message on an answering machine at another agency
about work at Margaret
River.
We went out to
Bunnings in search of a bolt that had snapped off my footrest on the bike, they
didn’t have one to fit but suggested we would get one from a bolt shop in town,
they were right.
Because we don’t
need to erect the tent, it’s a good opportunity to have a go at fixing the
zipper that has been playing up. I unstitched the ends and took the pullers
right back and threaded them on again, I sanded smooth a couple of rough patches,
it’s a plastic zip, and sprayed it with ezi glide, hopefully it’ll be ok now.
Tony spent some
time fixing the footrest and tightening up a bracket on the exhaust.
Late afternoon
we went for a ride to have a bit of a look around town, Mandurah is quite a
large city. I bought a new pair of jeans to replace the ones stolen at
Kununurra.
Spent the
evening talking with Fiona and Alan; Fiona loves Harley’s so she and Tony have
lots to talk about.
FIONA & PEECEE
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Saturday 19 November 2005
Day 212
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 Alan and Fiona
had told us there’s a lot to see in Mandurah so seeing as Fiona had to work and
Alan had plans, Tony and I went for a look around. We went down to the centre
of the city to the visitor information centre, where we booked a one hour
cruise.
The cruise took
us around the estuary and canals of Mandurah. The boat captain tells of the
history of the region, the birdlife that inhabits the area, about the
development that is taking place around the waterways and about some of the
extravagant houses that line the canals. We saw several lots of dolphins on our
cruise, they’re quite common and the captain told us they will sometimes go in
to the children’s swimming area to play with the kids. It was a pleasant way to
spend an hour.
 After our cruise
we went to a fish and chip shop claiming to be the number one fish and chip
shop in WA.
We then went for
a walk along the waterfront and had a look at a craft market.
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Another town
another Ulysses group to go for a ride with. Fiona had to work again today so
Alan, Tony and I rode to the petrol station to meet up with the Mandurah
Ulysses Group.
Eleven bikes set
out Beverley stopping at Boddington for morning tea. After our morning tea
break only 6 bikes continued on to Beverley.
We stopped for
petrol at a the same service station as the Fremantle Ulysses group and we met
Sooky and Wock, Sooky often posts messages on the Ulysses Forum on the
internet.
 
ALLAN & FIONA
WOCK & SOOKY
We rode through
the town of Beverley
and out to Avondale Discovery Farm for the Annual Harvest Festival. It was a
bit like a country show without the rides and showbags. We had a look around
and had some lunch and just when we were about to leave the Fremantle Group
arrived. We stopped to chat to them and met Mike Smith who also posts on the
Forum. All these famous people that we’re meeting!
Tony and I went
out for fish and chips with Alan and Fiona at a café by the water. At the café
they have their vinegar in a squirter bottle, like windex, not a bad idea. We watched the
sun set as we ate our fish and chips.
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