Day 10 and the home stretch! With breakfast on the shores of Swansea bay watching the sunrise, (following a brief sleep-in courtesy of daylight saving finishing), was a great way to mark a very special final day on tour. The … Continue reading
Clear skies and 6 degrees greeted us in Launceston for day 9, 150kms to the picturesque seaside village of Sawnsea …and another 1,600m of climbing, nothing flat around here! Being a weekend we had no school visits, so tradition with … Continue reading
Day 8 and we’ve arrived into our 3rd state – Tasmania. Passage across from Melbourne was a little rocky but no where near as bad as the Bass Strait could be. Most of the tour managed to get a good … Continue reading
Writing a blog on ship crossing the Bass Strait…and rolling all over the place adds another dimension to our challenge. Today we rode 160ks as headed from Eildon to Melbourne. Forecast was for intermittent showers and we weren’t disappointed…it rained … Continue reading
Today’s 200km stage lived up to its ‘epic’ prediction. Our longest stage of the tour, so everyone set off an hour earlier to get through a very long day in the saddle, with over 2,500 meters of climbing thrown in. … Continue reading
We have now travelled over 1/2 way to our destination of Hobart (1,577kms). For all doing the tour we talk about having a ‘hump day’, which typically occurs around day 4 or 5, and its when your body reacts to … Continue reading
Day 4 was listed as one of our really ‘big’ days as we had to tackle 2700m of climbing as we crossed over the Great Dividing Range and one of the highest points in Australia at 1500m elevation. So the … Continue reading
We woke to a very foggy morning for a big climbing day, 167kms @2300m. Breakfast kicked off at they new Woolworths ‘super’ supermarkets. Great to see such a good turnout of staff & family…on a cold autumn Canberra morning. All … Continue reading
Today greeted us with overcast skies…but no rain. The opportunity for a dry day had everyone buoyed with enthusiasm as we headed out of Bundanoon for 167ks and 1500m of elevation to Canberra. I must say the night at the … Continue reading
160kms in the rain adds another dimension to a 1,600km ride! Aside from being cold, wet, brakes, don’t work, hard to see and generally uncomfortable, wet weather also brings flat tyres…..over 15! Which provided for an exceptionally slow day with … Continue reading
