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: eBiking Australia
eBiking Australia covers my blogs about touring around Australia on an electric-assist bicycle. Find out how I am able to cover long distances in a country where power outlets might be 3 or 4 days apart. Share in the highs and lows of the road and marvel at the diverse landscapes from the beaches to the mountains and the arid interior.
#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.
#43 West Coast of Tasmania |406 km|
And now for the really good bit – a challenging ride in an environment that is remote and rewarding in its natural beauty – this is what cycle touring is all about.
#42 Tasmania’s Central Highlands |497 km|
After getting both battery chargers fried, I had to hang around in Swansea for new ones to be sent to me and then took off to cross Tasmania from east to west.
#41 South-east Tasmania |601 km|
It was under threatening skies and with a chill wind that I left Hobart at 11am on Tuesday, 2 January, bound for Bruny Island after 5 days in Hobart that were always windy and often wet.
#40 Tasmania’s East Coast |579 km|
There was no longer that lurching tension between wind, wave, swell and propeller, so I knew the good ship Spirit of Tasmania had delivered us safely to Davenport, even though I thought I was still asleep.
#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.
#37 South Australia’s East Coast |502 km|
South Australia, December 2017, and I ride the coastal route from Adelaide to Melbourne via the Coorong and the Great Ocean Road that features prominently in the world cycle touring atlas. People come from all over the world to experience it, but…