The Inaugural Blue, Super Blood Moon Ride!
Put down your salt lamps and lock up your goats because it’s time to get our pagan on folks! I just can’t believe the Blue, Super, Blood Moon has come around again, that 150 years just flew by.
A Blood Moon caused by the earth being between the sun and the moon.
I’ll explain this upcoming cosmic event quickly. Wednesday’s moon is blue (meaning the full moon has happen twice in one month – not actually blue), it’s a blood moon (that means it’s red) and it’s big (that means it’s close). Now all these things happening at once is pretty rare and according to my 30 seconds of dodgy googling the last time was in the USA back in 1866. So pencil the next one on your calendars now folks – sometime around 2168 – I’ll ask Toby to lead it.
We will be parking at Landsborough near the pub (the railway carpark should be empty). We will ride into Dularcha National Park and go through the old railway tunnel and hopefully see all the little bats doing their thing. We then climb up Rose Road and then down Ford Road into the Ewan Maddock Dam trails. We follow these trails and hopefully get to the causeways to get a uninterrupted view of the moon over the water. Then back to Landsborough pub for a beer/shandy/fluffy duck.
Ride Details:
- Day: Wednesday 31/01/2018
- Start time: Ride off is a 6pm
- Start Location: Landsborough Train Station
- Ride Grade: Grade 3 – Nothing too technical but there is a good climb and lots of loose surfaces and it’ll be dark… with bats, spiders and gnar rabbits.
- Distance: 14km
- Requirements: Bike and helmet lights, bug repellant, water, helmet, bike, legs etc