New Lotus Elise

I’m lucky to have bought my 3rd Lotus 2 months ago, just haven’t remembered to put some photos up. After my old Blue 2007 Elise R and my brief ownership of a Black 2007 Exige S, this one is a Daytona Blue 2015 Elise S Club Racer.

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Here we are picking up the new car, how exciting to unwrap a new car, very exciting and very lucky we are.

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All shiny and new and so Blue looking.

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This is the current quickest Elise model with a mid mounted1.8 litre supercharged Toyota engine. Power is  approx 260hp which isn’t a huge amount, (my Audi has 420hp) but weighing about 900kg’s it has a very quick acceleration of 0-100kph (0-60mph) in around 4.3 seconds.

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The Daytona Blue paint looks quiet different in person to the photos, it is kind of a half matt/half shiny look. The colour receives a lot of compliments from passers by. We were going to go for Red but chose the Blue as soon as we saw it in the showroom.

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Sanna and I are both very happy to own a Lotus again. They are a really fun car. THey can be a bit expensive to buy but after the inital purchase they are very cheap for petrol due to the small engine, and the parts are quite cheap, servicing is just a little bit more than a everyday car.

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Thanks to my mum for the ‘Petrol head’ t-shirt 🙂 suits me.

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As you can see the Elise is a real hit with friends kids 🙂

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Now if only my friend Cam could sit in the car, he’s so tall he can’t even see out haha.

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Sanna and I look forwards to some Lotus driving adventures before the baby comes early Feb.

2 day ‘6 foot track’ trek

Now this was a real challenge! I was invited to do a 44km overland trek from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains to Jenolan caves carrying all equipment, 14kg each with 6 Frenchies 🙂

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Ben was the organiser and he packed food for us all, as light as possible for two days of hard trekking.

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Ready to go 5 Frenchies  and 1 english man.

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All looking confident at the entry gate, we didn’t know how difficult it would be.

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First it was a very steep downloads path.

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It soon got to flat sections but it was very varied in the terrain.

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Grassy rolling hills lead to a…

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Winery that we were not expecting, so of course being lots of Frenchies we decided to make a 1 hour stop for wine tasting and a cheese platter. Of course we bought a bottle of white and bottle of red wine to take with us, we didn’t care it was more kilos to carry.

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Some Aussie Bush wildlife and echidna .

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Here we come to the famous Six Foot Track swing Bridge you have to cross to get across a river.

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The bridge Rocked around a lot when you crossed and swayed  as you walked, the view was excellent on the bridge though.

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It was really hot around 30 degrees and carrying so much weight we really needed to cool down, so we had to strip down and jump in the water and have a swim, it was a really refreshing.

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As I got back to my bag to get changed back into clothes, just 1 metre next to my bag was this snake . We weren’t sure what it was but later after the trip discovered it was a brown snake, which is the second most poisonous snake in the world.

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It was not afraid of us at all, it kept slowly slipping it’s way towards us as if it was the boss of the land.

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Hooray we reached the overnight camp site after a really hot days walk.

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The campsite was in a little valley, really cooled down nicely which was really good after such a hot day, and as you can see was very remote, quiet and peaceful.

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This is what the locals call a ‘lazy wombat’, basically a dead womat being attacked by a thousand flies, slowly being eaten. it stunk so bad!

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Dinner consisted of wine from the earlier winery, plus 3 othwr wines and French sausage, plus lots of other alcohol types including Johnnie Walker Black Label and bourbon and re-hydrated food which wasn’t that bad.

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Beginning of the day 2 trek. Day 1 was 20 km’s, day 2 would be 24 approx km’s.

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There is some beautiful green and bushy scenery that beginning of day 2. It was nice to prepare for a very long uphill most of the morning of day 2.

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Beautiful flower Meadow out in the middle of nowhere.

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Lunch stop day 2, there was a freshwater tank here which is excellent for us to fill up. Day 2 was just as hot as day one, 30 degrees, very hard to carry a 15 kg backpack.

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The final downward track to the end, only 1 kilometre to go at this point.

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So close now we could almost taste the beer.

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We made it! 44 km’s over 2 days of very rough ground carrying a lot of weight, we should all be proud of ourselves!

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A really well deserved beer at the end tasted like Liquid Gold.

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Thank you to Ben for organising the trek, it was very well organised with all the supplies, thank you to everyone I shared this experience with.