Drizzle all day and predicted 40 km winds make this...
It's Sunflower season and the Greendale Sunflower Farm is open - a beautiful landscape, and you can pick some to take home. This ride is really a circuit around Werribee Gorge and the quiet roads and beautiful rolling hills west of Bacchus Marsh, but the focus (by popular demand) is on those beautiful flowers. We've designed this ride to be fairly short (approx 150ks round trip, give or take the ride leader sudden discretion) so there's no pressure, and time for stops to enjoy places you may never have seen before!
Bring your camera, and a pair of secateurs if you intend picking sunflowers.
Meet Ampol Foodary Servo, Lt Boundary Rd, Laverton / Brooklyn. For our usual quick city escape route. The Servo has coffee and take away food, but reccommend you breakfast at home. < Map > Departing at 9.30 AM sharp
Bacchus Marsh. We'd like everyone to refuel / top up here, at the BP Servo when we first hit town. That will mean everyone gets home without another stop. We'll also phone through our lunch meal order from here. Have you read the menu and know what you want? Greendale Hotel Menu.pdf
Then it's that beautiful Pentlands Hill Rd to Myrniong and Greendale.
We' ll stop for a view at Werribee Gorge, and Pykes Creek Reservoir for pics.
The Greendale pub is a wonderful old thing. We'll have lunch there, but you must pre order your main meal so that it's ready for you when you arrive. Sunday is busy, and we can't afford to get bogged down time wise there. Your order will be phoned through from the stop at Bacchus Marsh. Here is the Menu - please decide what you want. Greendale Hotel Menu.pdf
Then to Greendale Sunflowers.
We've spoken to the farmer and, if its not too crowded, he'll let us take the bikes into the field for a photo shoot.
Secateurs essential if you are going to pick.
The way home will be Ballan and the wonderful Ironbark Rd to Bacchus Marsh, to thread our way back to Melbourne.
Suitable for all Vespa and rider experience. It's a back roads tour, but there is a short 1km unavoidable stretch on the Western Highway out of Bacchus Marsh. Your Vespa needs to do as close as possible to 100 kph, but we'll look after you!
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Lunch will be at the lovely old Greendale Pub. So we need you to register so that you have a seat.
We will pre order your main meal so that we don't get time bogged down on a busy pub day. We will phone through the order from our stop at Bacchus Marsh. It should be ready on arrival.
Here is the menu. Please order stuff that is quick to cook. Greendale Hotel Menu.pdf