Half Day Cemeteries Ride (Saturday) 8:45am
8.45am - Briefing
9.00am - Depart McDonalds, St Peters
9.20am - Arrive Botany Cemetery, Matraville. Ride through only
Numerous graves of early settlers and Sydney personalities are located here.
9.40am - Arrive Coast Hospital Cemetery, La Perouse
This old cemetery is attached to Prince Henry Hospital and began life as the resting place of a number of lepers who lived in a nearby colony during the late 19th century.
10.00am - Depart Coast Cemetery, La Perouse
10.25am - Arrive Waverly Cemetery
Dramatically located on top of the cliffs above the Pacific Ocean at Bronte.
10.45am - Depart Waverly Cemetery
11.10am - Arrive South Head Cemetery. Grumpy Baker morning break
The unusual headstone of Maroubra Speedway racing champion Reginald Gordon "Phil" Garlick, at South Head Cemetery. He lost his life when he crashed his Alvis during a race on 8th January, 1927.
11.40am - Depart South Head Cemetery
12.15pm - Arrive Gore Hill Cemetery
The Gore Hill Memorial Cemetery was established on 19 May 1868 and is one of the oldest and most significant remaining cemeteries in metropolitan Sydney.
All the cemetery scenes for the movie STONE were shot here.
12.30pm - Depart Gore Hill Cemetery
1.00pm - Arrive Rookwood Cemetery. Lunch at the Village Café
Rookwood Cemetery was officially named The Necropolis (meaning "City of the Dead"). It is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere that documents the cultural and religious diversity of the Australian community.
2.00pm - Make your own way home from Rookwood
What a great day out amongst so much history.
Lead - Fred,
Shotty - Ches,
Sweep - Doug
The route: https://goo.gl/maps/8y2pKNTwFLaAC4978
75k - 2 hours 12 minutes saddle time, plus plenty of time to discover, take photos and chat
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