Sunshine Coast Run
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Forum Name: Meetings, and Events Info
Forum Description: What Happened at the Last Meeting/Drive, When's the Next Meeting or Drive?
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Topic: Sunshine Coast Run
Posted By: Dawg
Subject: Sunshine Coast Run
Date Posted: 16 November 2010 at 7:05pm
Here's the map for the run: The total distance is 224 Kms. Ideas? The Dawg ------------- You dream it up....I'll make it |
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Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 16 November 2010 at 8:30pm
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[EDIT] Just so my following post makes sense ----------------------------------------------------- When I suggested the Sunshine Coast Run, it was never my intention to include a second ferry trip and all go all the way to Powell River. In my opinion that doubles the cost for very little gain. It also adds to the time required which again I don't feel is warranted. The ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale costs $42.35 for the car and $12.60 for each adult. That's for return fare, which means it costs nothing further to return. It's about a half hour ferry ride each way. My original idea was to drive no farther north than Earls Cove. I'm not suggesting that Earls Cove itself should be a destination (there's nothing there except for a ferry terminal), but there are plenty of beautiful spots to visit all along the Sunshine Coast between Gibsons (where http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beachcombers - The Beachcombers was filmed) and Earls Cove. I've travelled this highway almost every summer for the last 20 years. It's a great road for cruising in a Fiero, although interestingly enough, I've never driven a Fiero on this highway! Driving all the way from Langdale at the south end of the Sunshine Coast to Earls Cove in the north takes about an hour and a half. So we'd be looking at three hours to go from one end of the Sunshine Coast to the other and back. That would give us lots of time to spend at a selected spot or two or three along the way, and still make it back in plenty of time to catch a ferry to return home later that same day. If there's any interest by club members to go on a one day journey such as this sometime next spring/summer, I can research further to see what spots we might like to visit. Suggestions would of course be welcome. It's a beautiful area, and I don't think we'd have any trouble finding spots we'd all enjoy seeing. Honestly though, just the drive itself would probably make it all worthwhile.
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Posted By: Dawg
Date Posted: 16 November 2010 at 11:38pm
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I was under the impression that the one fee got you on both ferries. Assuming that was true, then why not go to the end....:) OK, I'll change the map. The Dawg ------------- You dream it up....I'll make it |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 12:09am
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Afraid not. It would be another $41.30 for the car and another $12.30 for each adult to get on the second ferry.
Thanks.
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Dawg wrote:
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 8:13am
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Again, I'm good for this provided it's done when I have my license again. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: kharmata
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 11:13am
I like driving. I have license. 
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 12:19pm
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I like slashing the tires of people who meet all the following criteria:
Be afraid. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: kharmata
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 12:35pm
You got it all wrong Tristan. My name is not Kevin. 
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Posted By: beken
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 1:10pm
Uh Oh....I'm afraid.....I meet 50% of the criteria.  -------------  Beken (aka Ken) - bekentech@westcoastfieros.com Original and still the owner of an 85SE 2M6 4spd |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 17 November 2010 at 11:43pm
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Oh, I know who you are, Mr Kaublevin, with your little notchie Fiero. Victory will be mine! ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: kharmata
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 10:28am
How will you catch me and for that matter how can you win unless maybe on a bike or a foot race.? (Sorry I
had too) 
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 12:11pm
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I don't have a license. Doesn't mean I can't drive. Yeah, that backfired, didn't it? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 2:05pm
Careful now, young fella!
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 3:28pm
Laws are for sissies. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 6:59pm
Break enough laws and you'll be someone's "sissy" at the Crowbar Hotel.
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Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 23 November 2010 at 9:07pm
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We need to pic a date for this drive, and get it in motion, make sure that there are enough people willing to go. Often it turns out that the more a run is talked about and the more people that say they are coming the more "other" people come. (IE, Bob will go if Joe is going and so on) ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |