Day 2: Gold Coast to Sydney Road Trip on the Old Pacific Highway
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- I'm taking a Gold Coast to Sydney Road Trip to rediscover the towns of the Old Pacific Highway that have been bypassed. Today, you can leave the Gold Coast at sunrise, glide along a dual-carriageway freeway almost uninterrupted, and be in Sydney by mid-afternoon. But it wasn’t always that way.
This leg is from Yamba to Port Macquarie.
0:00 - Leaving Yamba
3:00 - Plan for today
4:13 - Maclean NSW
6:15 - Ulmarra NSW
9:28 - Woolgoolga NSW
13:50 - The last part to bypass
17:35 - Sawtell NSW
22:04 - Urunga NSW
25:05 - Nambucca Heads NSW
27:26 - Crash that changed everything
31:06 - Port Macquarie NSW
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Brought back a lot of memories. Travelled the Pacific between Grafton and Brisbane frequently in the 70's . Started travelling it most weeks between Sydney and the Gold Coast in trucks from the late 80's
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Happy birthday 🎉
Never do a big trip without my jump pack. I have only used it once but have helped a few others along the way
Revisiting all the places my family has been over the last 5 years or so (baring covid..) Yamba is a biggy for us, but also Woolgoolga (Woopi!) when we stayed at Arrawarra, Corindi and Red Rock. Many a night we've walked up the hill you were trying to jump start the bike after a very beery dinner with the kids. Loving the vids!
Awesome video mate. Loved the music too. A very pleasant change from Sh1tRock blasting eardrums. 😅
Thanks mate! I do enjoy selecting the music 😁
Really enjoyable mate, a lot of memories in that. Hard to think that it was not that long ago when large sections of those roads were the actual highway. The plane in the driveway south of Maclean belongs to a bloke named Sparksy who is a Minister that flies himself to remote areas doing church services.
I don't know if you rode the old section of the highway from Dirty Creek Range to Corindi Beach but at the bottom of the range is a road now named Dirty Creek Road. It is the original route of the highway up the range and is now a dead end but interestingly you can still that the road markings are yellow.
A bakers shop is much better than Macdonalds
Timely vid! Hope to be doing Old Pacific in March, nice chill hardtop ride through small towns. Sweet. And agree with the maccas. Consistent
Our Tarago which we had for 17 years could be perfect to drive home and then the battery could be completely dead an hour later when we wanted to go to the shops. There was never any warning beforehand. Over the 17 years each time it did it was exactly the same way.
There is an old section from Wells Crossing to Glenugie, but it is a pain to get on as you have to do u-turns on the southern end. There is an old billboard at Halfway Creek. The old road was located to the left but is now closed off. Hogbin Drive (In Coffs Harbour) was an old alignment, and James Small Drive is also an old alignment (but due to there being no shoulders, wouldn't recommend)
More interesting on video than in reality I think... i stopped riding/driving the Pacific Hwy back in the mid eighties both because it was so dangerous and latterly because it's so boring! I now take the Putty rd., Bucketts Way, Thunderbolts Way and whatever the road from Armidale through to Nymboida and Grafton is called. Or go up west of New England Hwy to Texas and into the back of Brissie from the Border Ranges. I just don't have your patience I fear!
Great vlog and happy birthday 🎉
Thanks mate 😄😀
Nambucca Heads was funny. You've ticked it off the list for me me too. Thanks
Hey nice vid. If you’re ever in Woolgoolga again keep riding up the same road towards the ocean, you’ll see an awesome ocean lookout.
Ahh, where the roadwork was? That would have been perfect. I'll add it to the list for the next road trip, for sure.
No instead of turning around in woolgoolga main drag just keep going up that steep hill.
Thanks for the magical mystery tour...... and thoughts and prayers for the dead battery.
It's gone to recycle heaven now 😜
Sorry to hear that you had a flat battery, atleast you weren't riding a R1150RT where you have disemble the enire bike well almost Glad to see that you are back on the bike with a minimal of fuss. It is amazing how things like that tests your knowledge of vocabulary. Stay upright.
Even just the lucky location of the Repco at the bottom of the unsuccessful clutch start hill. I got out of that one very conveniently.
At the Big Banana you'll see no parking signs. Still took at great shot with the bike out the front. Nanny state no parking.
I guess you could argue if you are taking a photo of your bike, it's technically not parking 😜
When at home you should run an OPTIMATE (or similar) battery conditioner on the bike, all the time. It will give you 3 to 5 x battery life.
You missed the honey shop at Urunga. You were looking for it in the first video but I reckon you were thinking of the old Macadamia nut castle near Byron.
I definitely missed the one at Urunga after going back and looking at the gpx and footage, but you might be right about the other being further up north. Now I'm doubting my memory!! 😜
@@MotoRidesAustralia my folks would never stop at the Macadamia Castle. I’m not sore about it 😜
Bonjour,like it. total excellent ,
G’day, thanks mate 😄
Three highways running side by side in a few places at valla (between Urunga and Nambucca) you missed most of it, apart from the main street at Nam. The reason all the speed cameras along there, on the second highway? well, its the crash capital of the old Pac Highway, as you can tell by the wreaths and memorials along there too.
see you out on the trails.
I reckon you could do that trip 3 or 4 times and take a different way each time. So many great roads to discover next time.
Birthday Battery. lol The good news you will know the install date.
I won't forget that one!
Battery, when they are dead, they are dead. And you can't run the bike on the alternator. Lucky with Repco nearby.
Hey would you please do a video on the old roads to miss and the old roads to not miss. Thanks.
You read my mind!! 👍😜
What recording camera are you using, Great clips I'm watching buddy.
Thanks mate. It's a GoPro Hero 9 and DJI Air 2S.
enjoyed your return ride back down the coast Vern, how are you finding the sadle seat on the tenere?
im getting a bit uncomfortable after abou 46 minutes.
I was thinking of replacing the seat so I'm not on the tips of my toes, but it's so bloody comfortable I don't think I can live without it!! 😜
Is there a drone rescue story coming up?
“On next week’s episode, Vern does something stupid” 😜
I'm wondering why bikes and hikes only take you one way and you have to fend for yourself on the way home. I don't think I'll do that ride with them because of that. 🤔
What is “spotto”?
Where can i find the route that you took? I couldn't find it on the moto rides aus website
Mate, you must have read my mind because I literally had that thought earlier today!!
www.motorides.com.au/rides/old-pacific-highway-qld-to-syd
I'm sorry, the dream of a dual carriage freeway is shattered as soon as you get to Newcastle, traffic lights, right hand turns, rickety one lane bridge. Just 2 has from Sydney. That's the biggest irony.
Very true!! Surely someone has a plan somewhere to bypass Hexham? Surely?
Timely vid! Hope to be doing Old Pacific in March, nice chill hardtop ride through small towns. Sweet.
@@MotoRidesAustralia began a couple of months ago inJanuary but….completion date by 2026 is forecast if no large delays. Which of course there always is.