Then we were off again. It rained through the night but cleared in the morning so we pushed off. We had to go through the McQuarie pass which everyone kept warning us about, to get to the coast. It was lovely riding through farming territory, a light rain began mid morning and as we pulled into Robertson it started raining harder. We stopped for coffee and found out we were actually at the top of the pass, the rest was down - imagine our pleasant surprise! Now the down was hairpin and narrow but the rain let up enough to make it pretty good going and fun! We camped that night at Killalea State park. It cleared as we put up our tent but drizzled or rained most of the night and next day. It is a lovely spot cliffs to beautiful ocean beaches. Very hilly towns. Encountered the Australian equivalent of a raven which is a very chatty bird indeed. Also saw a kangaroo again alive. We have also been seeing kangaroo road kill :-(
Kiama
We stayed in a lovely campground at Tabourie Lake and these guys came in to see what we had to share with them - nothing of course but they took good photos. So we rode on weather has been great!

We decided this is a big country much like Canada and getting to Tasmania which is where we want to get will take longer than our leg power will allow us so we hopped a bus in Narrooma and are now in Melbourne. We have hooked up with the Bike Friday folks in oz. We may do a tour with them the end of March but in the mean time we are going to a bike shop that knows BF's for some tlc before we take the ferry to Tasmania.
Talks to you later.
Diana and Ian
Hallo hier uit holland.
ReplyDeleteWe have seen you impresive trip trueout the world, and i would love to meet you also in europe.....
When you arround just let us know...
Have a good time, Jan,Henny, and Colinda.
(from the Komejan Clan)
Hi you all ,
ReplyDeleteWE so would have loved to have made Europe part of the trip but for a lot of reasons we could not do it this year. It is on for a summer visit now probably 2012! We will visit Hollan and Jan in Spain too
glad you are able to keep up on our travels by the blog!
Till next
love and hugs to you
Diana