April - Mazda MX-5 Club of Victoria & Tasmania

Chapter chatter ...
Summer’s last blast!
With our members spread
throughout the northwest,
northeast and the midnorthern
parts of the top half
of Tasmania, the Blueberry Barn
Café has always been a favourite of our
Northern Tasmania Chapter owing to
its location roughly in the middle of the
spread. Another reason is that, to get
there, everyone has an interesting drive
through a choice of Tasmania’s excellent
secondary road network.
Black must be the new red as there were
no fewer than four of the highly-polished
examples in the car park, so it was
fortunate that we had some silvers, golds,
coppers, reds and yellows to break up the
“zoom”.
Attending his very first run was new
member Bill Morgan who had only
just taken delivery of his very smart
Evolution Gold NB the day before. We
also welcomed Robert Humphries, whose
black NC has not seen the sun much
because of business commitments as well
as Tony and Louise Hewitt who had come
for the day in their 35th Anniversary
Nissan 350Z. After coffee and chit-chat
on the deck at the cafe, instructions were
issued, drivers and passengers were
belted in and we set off.
The first section of road was the Holwell
Gorge that leads to Beaconsfield. This is a
very popular Targa stage and although we
were running it in the reverse direction;
many feel that it is more challenging that
way than the Targa direction used by the
competitors.
Once into Beaconsfield we turned left off
the main street for another reverse Targa
stage, namely Kayena. This brought us
out at the Batman Bridge from where we
turned right back towards Beaconsfield
and the next stage through Flowery Gully
and Winkleigh to bring us to Exeter and a
comfort break.
From Exeter the “zoom” headed out on
the B72 through Glengarry and thence on
to the Birralee Road. It was at this point
we were only about 5km from where we
had started at Frankford, but we had had
a lot of fun traversing the circle to get to
this point!
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