After the lockdown, and taking encouragement from government to get back to “COVID-normal” I test the waters again with some trips out of Melbourne.
Category: Victoria
Follow my blog as I go long-distance eBike touring to discover my new home-state of Victoria from its ocean vistas to the high country, bike paths and Rail Trails and along Australia’s longest river, the Murray.
#76 Melbourne in the year of COVID |4,624 km|
Melbourne was under serious lockdown for much of 2020; here’s what I got up to.
#53 The Great Victorian Rail Trail
This post covers a full-circle bike trip I made over 3 days and 2 nights in early Spring of 2018, from my apartment in Abbotsford, Melbourne, to Maryville via Tallarook and the Great Victorian Rail Trail, and then back to Melbourne via the Acheron Way and the Warburton – Lilydale Rail Trail.
#39 Rye to Melbourne via Point Leo
I stay 5 days in Rye with Boaz and Justine and their 3 boys, just a short walk through the bush from Blairgowrie back-beach in the National Park. Then I joined up with them and two other families with school-age boys, for their annual mid-December camping holiday at Point Leo on Westernport Bay. I came…
#38 Victoria’s West Coast |603 km|
Victoria: the second part of my ride from Adelaide to Melbourne – 7 days in early December, 2017. Early summer along the famous 250-km Great Ocean Road that all international touring cyclists have on their bucket list.
#33 Down the Lower Murray |634 km|
The second half of my long ride down the River Murray from Swan Hill to Blanchetown followed the same pattern as the first half from Tintaldra to Swan Hill. That is: monotonous and dangerous, and wondering why on earth I was so intent on doing it.
#32 Down the Upper Murray |763 km|
I start my long odyssey down the Murray River by first going upstream for 105 km. The designated ‘official’ jumping-off point for cyclists doing the “source-to-sea” Murray trip is the bridge at Towong, still 70-odd km further upstream, but I’m not quite that purist!
#31 Central Victoria |871 km|
The Great Victorian Rail Trail is “Australia’s longest continuous rail trail” – worth checking out, I thought. And the rail trail leads into Victoria’s so-called ‘High Country’ with it’s “stunning mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes […] perfect for relaxation and adventure”. Who could resist!
#30 Victoria’s East Coast |760 km|
A highlight of any cycling trip between Sydney and Melbourne are the Rail Trails in the east. Not to be missed!