Wow, and we thought culling the pictures from Western Australia was difficult, South Australia proved even harder!!! SA definitely gave us some of our most treasured memories of the whole trip and some of the big milestones. Perhaps it struck a cord because we were getting closer to family, or maybe it’s because we are both born and bred in this...
Busily trying to prepare for our next adventure in Vietnam but not wanting to lose the glow of achievement after completing our 7000 km cycling tour across Australia we thought we’d try and do a best of pics collection. Not going to happen. Just too many to choose from…so now we’ll try and give you the top ten memories for...
After resting??? up in Port Macquarie for three nights we planned in an extra long ride for our first day back on the bikes, 115km through to Nambucca Heads would be the longest ride since the Nullarbor, so many months ago. Thankfully the road was pretty flat and we had good winds. When we hit the awesome surface of the...
We thought once we’d made it through the South East of Victoria that we’d be hill fit and ready to roll. I had high hopes of making Sydney by the end of January, averaging just over 70km a day. Surely after almost 6000km we were bike fit….How naïve was I. The hills of the South Coast of NSW were ready...
With mended legs from our day off in Warragul, a tailwind and a huge shoulder on the highway, the 56km ride to Traralgon couldn’t have been more different to the one to Warragul just two days before. There were a couple of hills to get out of town but then it was flat and fast all the way. The big...
Viewpoint at 13th Beach – Victoria With the Great Ocean Road behind us we were on the next major leg of our cycling tour across Australia to the Pacific Coast. After taking the coastal road track from Torquay via the very beautiful 13th Beach, we arrived in a compact and very pretty Queenscliffe on the Western inlet of Port Phillip...
Views early morning on the Great Ocean Road After our big climb up Lavers Hill, a rest day in Apollo Bay was exactly what we needed, (the copious beverages were probably not) so the 6am wake-up call wasn’t all that welcome, but we wanted to miss the bulk of the tourist traffic on our ride through to Lorne, 47km away....
Ahhh yes…the wonderful post Xmas and New Years bulge. After almost 3 weeks off the bikes getting stuck right into all the goodies of the festive season we were feeling decidedly heavier and cycling across Australia seemed like another world away. We finally made it out of Melbourne on New Year’s day. Crowded public transport options meant we couldn’t be...
Heading into the Xmas period the pressure to be places and fit in with other people’s schedules started to mount. We’d made a promise to be home in Broken Hill for Xmas but really had had no idea where we would be when the time came to abandon the bikes and find a way back. We figured Melbourne but bad...
As well as our Bikes and Bike Bits, we’re carrying a lot of other things on this ride, most of which add to our comfort or provide convenient solutions to situations we experience along the way. (Click here to see what many of them are.) Here are our TOP TEN things we wouldn’t do without on our trip cycling across...
Mirissa: More Than Just A Beach
2 Nov, 2018
