Category: South Australia

  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…

    Thursday 16 November, 2017.  Wudinna to Lake Giles |123 km| [It’s all wheat country around here – gently rolling barren hills.  There was a strong wind from the starboard quarter, and it was surprisingly quite cold actually]. I charged up on the generator at a roadside stop with only 55 km travelled, and…

South Australia, November 2017, and I continue my ride around Eyre Peninsula.  This time up the remote and rugged west coast, then return to Adelaide via “the top”.

Adelaide, South Australia, November 2017, and I decide to ride off in the general direction of Perth across the Nullarbor Plain.  OK, so I didn’t quite make it as far as Perth in the end, and instead ended up just doing a quick 1,600 km (1,000 mile) loop of Eyre Peninsula and back to Adelaide. …

< There was a magical swirling mist rising off the unseen Basin Creek this morning (OK, call it a fog then, killjoy) when I poked my head out the tent at 06.00, all eager to pack up and get going, but I had to wait until 8.45 for the mist to clear before it was…

Day 110 Route Beachport to Mount Gambier When I woke up at Beachport I felt no urgency about my day’s riding, as I needed to wait in Mount Gambier until the Post Office opened on the Monday to collect my repaired phone anyway, and there was only 100km to cover in 2 days.  However, with…

Day 109 Route Kingston to Beachport It rained during the night and it was cold, wet and miserable with a strong breeze from the south in the morning, so I waited until 9.30 to see what the weather was going to do before making a move. It did clear up a bit and the tent…

Day 108 Route Parnka to Kingston I had a good sleep out there at Parnka, communing with nature in my little tent, and serenaded by the booming Southern Ocean surf on the other side of the Coorong all night. I was up and gone by 6.30 – and could have easily made it 5.30 –…

Day 107: Murray Bridge to Parnka route map [A very hot day in the high 30s on flat road with a poor shoulder and verge, little traffic] After taking my phone in to the Post Office to send to Adelaide to get the screen fixed once again, I didn’t get away from Murray Bridge until…