Fleurieu Peninsula: Victor Harbour to Normanville

Day one: Victor Harbour to Normanville 43 kms

(Plus 15 klms travelling to and from town twice)

Fleurieu Fun

It might not sound like much riding but when you add in all the steep hills, I think it was the equivalent of 1,000 kms. The maximum gradient was 12.2% and I did manage to ride up it without killing Ray (just). 

After the steep hills, he assured me that there would be no more steep bits. But then he had us turning into a road so awful that I was prepared to walk up it. Fortunately he misread the map and we could avoid the killer climb.

It was a slow and cold day (16 max). I thought we could avoid the 30 kph winds, but nuh. Finally arriving in the township, we discovered that the caravan park we had booked was not 600m from the town as advertised, but 3 kms into the wind. 

To rub insult into injury, the unavailable, cheaper and better caravan park is situated just across the road from our  of dinner destination, so instead of walking 50m we will be riding a round trip  of 7.4 kms. At least we will be able to enjoy the sun setting over the water as we dine.

And then, more hills tomorrow. 

Pics

I don't know where this is but it looks a little bit like the caravan park that we are staying in, except that this looks better

Get off the road you silly old bastard

Can I see a bald hill through there?

LIke I told Brenda, it was not all that steep

We were down in that valley.

...and that valley.

More broken dreams

Aaaaaagh! They're following us.

Who ate the fish?

We're riding up there tomorrow

Taken through the window from where we were sitting for dinner at the local surf club. Mighty fine meal and a great view.

Ride Notes

• A pretty short day of riding about 60/40, gravel/bitumen 
• The gravel was ok with a little bit of corrugations but ok.
• There were a couple of sharp climbs involved
• Unfortunately a couple fo the downhills has sharp curves at the bottom which prevented us from getting some speed up.