Day 53

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 53

The aim today was to cycle into another state. Job done ✔️

The seagull hit the trails this morning for a 14km trail run 🏃🏼

We then got on our bikes to ride the trails together 🚴🏻‍♀️🚴🏻, covering 16km.

And that’s when Justine had a close encounter of the slithery kind 🐍
Her second this trip 😳
She noticed the meter long snake just as it traversed the track in front of her and had to make a snap decision to either try to safely stop or ride over it and hope it didn’t bite.
She went for it.
It didn’t get her but she’s still recovering from the shock 🤣

Our ride took us to Gumbower Island, surrounded by the Murray River and Gumbower Creek it is the largest permanent inland island in the southern hemisphere and within it the Gumbower State Forest is full of trails and camping opportunities.
We initially went in search of new campsites but criss crossed the many tracks until the terrifying snake incident 🐍 sent us back into civilisation.
From there we headed across the Murray into NSW on the Barham - Koondrook Bridge, built in 1904. Unfortunately there were no paddle steamers 🛳️ on the river so we didn’t get to see it lift.

We tried our hand at fishing again 🎣, but no luck.

We had more success making our cosy home feel a little Christmassy 🎄Leggi altro