GVRT: Yea to Mansfield
Day 3: Yea to Mansfield 85 kms
I woke this morning to the sound of heavy rain. Nothing fills me with more dread than the thought of rain, wind and hills combined with riding a bicycle. Well maybe if you added fast traffic, that would be absolutely dreadful. Try as I might to talk Ray into catching a shuttle, he would not entertain the thought.
So we rode in the rain to the cafe and after a disappointing coffee, we set off. The rain had eased and Ray assured me that the "likely thunderstorms" would not eventuate because he is an expert in all things, especially the weather. Damn him - he was right and the BOM site was not.
We made it to the halfway point at 42 kms, where we knew there was a shelter shed. Just as we reached it, the rain came. Is there anyone more annoyingly lucky about predicting the weather? After sheltering and lunching for about twenty minutes, the rain obligingly stopped and we finished the journey completely dry.
We met a fellow traveller on a recumbent bike, who told us that he had ridden the Mawson trail earlier in the year. I was astonished, until he went to move on and I discovered that his bike was electric.
Our return to Mansfield marked the end of our Victorian sojourn. We completed over 500 kms on rail trails. We have decided to cancel the Lavender Trail in SA because of logistics, but Ray is designing a very hilly expedition on the Fleurieu peninsula instead. I can't wait.
Pics
All of a sudden it was blue. A local who was passing said it had just happened, but possibly not in the past hour or so when we had previously passed it going the other way. It is an anti depresson message..
We might get wet.
Do your worst flies.And they did.
The bridge over Lake Eildon.
Just about to go over for the second time in three days. It isthe old railway bridge repurposed as a bike, pedestrian bridge.
More is coming to fill Lake EIldon.
This is the full artwork that we did not get in, in a previous blog.
We've just completed the rail trail twice in a total of three days. About 250 klms.
A couple of goths have just escaped from the old people's home. Could someone tell me why the camera takes the shot in mirror image?
So apparently I even get blamed for missing the rain.
So we made it to beach side Adelaide.
Ride Notes
- A rail trail
- Obvioulsy a little bit harder than going the other way as it was overall, going uphill.