Cycle Tour

Day 1 Monday 8Th March

We have been introduced today to the rules of the camping part of the Wambana trip. I ended up having some mini pizzas with some cheese in them. I had to cut back on the ingredients but they were still quite nice. I was planning on cooking mac and cheese but my partner had to use the Trangia to cook his meal that night and we ended up running out of time for me to cook mine. I ended up having to have them cold. Its stuff like that which makes me miss home already.

Day 2 Tuesday 9Th March

Today we did two bike rides. One was a trip from Wambana to West Cowie Return and the other was the Warooka loop. On the trip for Wambana to West Cowie Return we travelled a distance of 20K's. It started off really nice and it was an easy run with the coast running along our right and the houses with their amazing gardens running along our left. We were introduced to the rock which we would be turning back at on the 3.4 km morning runs. However when we turned off into a dirt road it got really bumpy and the scenery was reduced to mostly just grass with some sparse trees. Soon after going on this road i fell off my bike and badly grazed my right hand and both my elbows.

My hand after 6 days of healing




We stopped around halfway through the ride to check out an abandoned single classroom school. It occurred to me how awkward it would have been and upon asking how it worked i was told that all of the kids were taught by one teacher. I found out that there are still some schools run without teachers. (i wish i had brought my camera there).
The Warooka loop ran for a total of 23K's and was far more "interesting" a ride. The scenery showcased all the beauty of the plants near the sea and the road itself was simply a trail that felt amazing to ride on yet looked as if it should be way more bumpy then it was. It feels amazing having done this much in one day yet i know that Ive still got another 80K's to go.
Tonight yet again my partner was cooking with the trangia so i had to have my vege sausages cold. For those who don't know I'm a vegetarian so any products that would normally be meat will be vege products. I don't eat fish so don't ask me if i do and i said vegetarian; not vegan; so i do eat animal products. The flies here are really bugging me and the march flies here are really fast. For some reason they seem to have picked my ears as a target.

Day 3 Wednesday 10Th

Today we rode around the Innes National Park. During this run we rode for 37K's. The entire ride was through a nice bitumen road with constant trees running along both sides of the road. The ride was from a small information area which had a weird giant rusted hollowed-out wheel-shaped thing to a small stub of a lighthouse. We made it to the lighthouse from where i took a picture of how far we were to go next.

The next stop is to the far right of the picture below



We then stopped at a beach where one of the kids on our camp (Ian) ran out onto the beach. He then started running around the waves before walking as close as he could to them with out getting wet. After coming back he said the he had run out there thinking that everyone was coming and then got disappointed when he found that nobody was there. While i was out there i took a photo of the lighthouse we had stopped by earlier.

Ian walking out to the ocean

The lighthouse which we had rode from


Tonight i used my Trangia to cook some mac and cheese which was probably the best Ive cooked on a Trangia.

Day 4 Thursday 11Th March
Today's bike ride was from the central Southern Yorke Peninsula to Edithburgh. The ride there took a total of 48K's. The scenery was amazing for all but a stretch of dirt road which was so samey that it seemed to go on forever. All of the ride except for the last 2K's was bumpy or dirt road. At one point we went completely off the road and used a trail that was nothing more then an area which had been set aside for road construction but had never had the road been built. During the last part of the road before Edithburgh we came across a wind farm. As we passed the wind farm i rode into a bush and sent myself sprawling across the dirt road. I got up as fast as i could and kept on riding and was able to catch up and get ahead of them just before we rode into Edithburgh. I felt so happy that id finally completed the bike run but it soon occured to me that the morning runs would be the hard part.