Sunrise Drive

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12) 07/14/2018 at 23:14 • Filed to: None

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I had the urge to get out of the city and try and catch the sunrise. This is my story.

A year ago I moved from the country to the city to get closer to work. The city is great but I’ve been starting to miss smashing down simple empty roads at 100km/hr with the roof off blasting tunes with nobody around. I only use my car for weekly shopping. I don’t get to enjoy it. So I resolved to do something about it.

I got up relatively early. Drove out west to a small mountain range called the You Yangs which I’d never been to. And then took a detour through Geelong to St Leonard’s beach, because there’s an album about it. I played the album on the way there. It was poetic. Also cold and windy.

Bloody Aussie bush mate

This is the sort of thing I’d role play in something like TDU or GTA V. Take a sports car and cruise down the coast. But I own a fucking sports car in real life, I live near a coast. I don’t need to role play it.

This is the first time I’ve been to Geelong since I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Oh, the memories.

As I was driving West I missed most of the sky lightening. But I snapped this looking Eastward in Richmond about 6:50am.

Things I saw:

A dead ‘roo. Not that interesting for where I am but when was the last time YOU saw a dead ‘roo? Was a big boi, glad I didn’t hit it

The Bayside Blue R34 with numberplate GR34T that I saw !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

A very, very old LHD Volvo, a PV 544 maybe

A nice S13 Silvia

A VE Commodore wagon with numberplate MUNTED

Made the actual sunrise around 7:40am

You Yangs aren’t massive. But they’ve always been visible from where I grew up on the far side of the bay. Cool to get there.

St Leonards. Not pictured: biting wind, horrid cold

Shout out to pip bip who’s gonna come in here and tell me all the cool stuff Geelong/Yangs has to offer that I missed.

Cool story about the area: a convict named William Buckley was shipped off to Australia but escaped custody with some buddies. Most of them tried to walk to Sydney (1000km away, lol), he kept on alone through the bush. Tired and dehydrated he eventually settled with a group of Aborigines and lived with them for 32 years. He was eventually pardoned and returned to Western society. He’s a likely source of the phrase “you’ve got Buckley’s or none”, meaning very little chance of succeeding.

WilliamsSW > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 00:27

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Very nice! Good on you for making it happen!

Nauraushaun > WilliamsSW 07/15/2018 at 00:31

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Thanks mate

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 00:42

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Glad you broke out of your routine to take advantage of what many can only wish they could have.

Nauraushaun > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 07/15/2018 at 00:51

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Same man. I needed it. Work has been nuts, the routine is getting to me, need to find inspiration elsewhere.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 03:27

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I tried to get up with the sunrise this morning to go for a short wander in the bush near Mudgee...but it was -10 degrees centigrade, still as a grave and the frost was making the eucalyptus leaves hang like icicles. I went back to bed...

Seven Footer > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 05:24

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Being a born & raised Californian, I’ve never seen a dead ‘roo... but I’ve held banana slugs in my hand , grown California Poppies in my yard & helped Bay Area Blond Tarantulas cross roads near Mt. Diablo during mating season. I’ve also watched the sunrise over the SF Bay after a long early morning drive & appreciate your story from a few thousand miles away. Cheers.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 06:06

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did you go past the Ford proving grounds?

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > Nauraushaun 07/15/2018 at 09:48

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Glad to see you making time for simpler things. Is it a far drive to get out of the city? I’ve never lived in a city only near them. I think it would drive me insane to not be able to escape the city from time to time. Though I think it would also drive me crazy to not have the city near as well!

Nauraushaun > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 07/15/2018 at 18:01

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Hey it sounds pretty. I'd do it. But I've never felt such cold, ever. What do I know

Nauraushaun > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 07/15/2018 at 18:03

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Nah not really. Depends which direction you go. But from my house it was 1hr to the peak, and most of that driving was out of the city.

Haha yes its best to strike a mix as well as you can

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/15/2018 at 18:03

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Haha, no. I read it's on the north, didn't do the north. If I'd seen a sign I probably would have followed it.

Nauraushaun > Seven Footer 07/15/2018 at 18:07

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I had to look those things up but it sounds awesome. I gotta get up there some day!

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > Nauraushaun 07/16/2018 at 09:28

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An hour isn’t too bad, just means it’s more of an occasion!

Seven Footer > Nauraushaun 07/16/2018 at 12:19

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Haven’t seen your neck of the woods yet either but it’s on the list. The world’s a big place with so many awesome things to see. W ish I had the time (& money) to see it all but that's why it's important to see the awesome where you live. Most people in the world will never get the chance to see the things you see every day.

Nauraushaun > Seven Footer 07/16/2018 at 23:00

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Woah man.

Nauraushaun > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 07/16/2018 at 23:01

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I’m from the country. It’s fine. Any shorter and I’d still be in the city ;)