Southern Saturday Run

04 August 2012 / Adam Walker

It was a brisk early August morning when the roof down brigade started rolling in to Heathcote McDonalds for another BreakFast Run. As the sun started to rise, we could all see that it was going to be a fantastic day weather wise.

A bigger than expected turnout necessitated a change in breakfast destination to Chat's Café, Robertson. 7:30am rolled on and a group of 25 MX-5s made their way south via the old highway. It was quite a sight seeing almost 2km's of rugged up people in convoy behind you.

We finally hit some twisty bits heading through Broughton Pass and over the Cataract River. After a quick drive down the Hume it was then onto some serious "B" roads around Mt Gibraltar and behind Mittagong & Bowral.

We arrived in Robertson right on time for some socialising and a great feed. It seemed Chat's Café was a bit overwhelmed with a line quickly forming out the front door. The café was very accommodating and even had the combustion heater fired up to keep us warm. We were all very satisfied after a big feed (the big brekkie was tops!!) and headed out for some admiring of a certain Publicity Officer's supercharged NC. Some of us were lucky enough to be taken for a blast down the road.

From the cafe, we bypassed the famous Robertson Pie Shop and dropped down towards the coast via Macquarie Pass. A quick left turn at the bottom of the hill put us in water up to our wheel nuts on Mt Marshall Creek, and then through the dairy farms (complete with genuine odour) surrounding Yallah.

A run north up the highway had us at the base of Mt Keira. We couldn't resist a run up there with the final stop at the lookout way above Wollongong.

It was a great day out. Good to see some new club members as well as the usual faces. All in all 22 members along with 9 non-members turned out. Come September, Alan Voung will hopefully be a club member...finally!!