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…
#36 The Top of Eyre Peninsula |578 km|
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…
#35 West Coast of Eyre Peninsula
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”.
#34 East Coast of Eyre Peninsula |807 km|
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. …
#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!