Day 23 (117)

Sunny with high 34 ⛅️

🚴🏼‍♀️13km MTB ride
🤸🏼Pilates and strength sesh

👍🏻 Silo at sunset 🌅
👎🏻 Life’s admin has to be done even in the road 💻

We jumped on the bikes and headed to Company Dam (Comps Dam to locals), completed 1867 and originally constructed to supply water to gold claims ⛏️then for the steam engines 🚂
There are a number of fire trails in the area and we took the Showground Fire Trail, a 7km trail through eucalyptus, pine and iron bark trees. The trail was often sandy, rocky and very rutted which the Seagull found a breeze and which tested Justine’s limited MTB skills 🚴🚴🏼‍♀️

From the dam we headed through town to O'Brien's Hill, the site where gold was first discovered in 1866 by a shepherd and where remnants of the mining past remain including a stamper and poppet head⛏️
Total 13km and 138m elevation

Managed to get a pilates & strength session in before it got too hot, then spent a quiet afternoon at camp catching up with life admin 💻

Friday night cocktails 🍹and a game of Rummy before walking to the Grenfell Painted Silo as the sun was setting to see the evening light display 🌅Read more