We reached Port Macquarie - 87km today, with an average speed of 21.4km (not bad with a trailer). Now preparing for a series of training events we have planned in the coming 2 weeks.
Distance so far: 1956km
Weather: Temperature: 32 degrees. Sunny and hot. Rapidly descending to 20 degrees, and 12 degrees at evening.
Terrain: Freeway – gentle inclines for first 40km. Then hilly, with narrow roads and less room for cyclists.
In Taree, the health food shop gave us 30 discount on nuts and raisins. Thank you!
43km from Taree, we entered the village of Kew. Cut off now by the new freeway, rather like Bulahdela will be within the year. The village is having to reinvent itself. At the Keward a redoubtable entrepreneur offered s some great coffee, sturdy wooden tables for sharing, and some gentle jazz. Worth trying it out.
Now in Port Macquarie. Checked into the Caravan Park to camp. But they offered us a backpackers room for free, with free wifi.
Room given for FREE. Free wifi. Neighbouring room for bikes. Linen etc.
GREAT location! Chris
I have to say that the staff at the Sundowner Holiday Park in Port Macquarie have been some of the most helpful, open, supportive and customer focused hospitality people we have met. All of them have gone out of their way to help us and make our stay a great experience! :-)
Also the ride to Port Mac was great. We covered a good distance and maintained a great speed. Its rewarding on days like this as it makes us feel like our fitness is improving.
We are both starting to get tans (amazing for me) on our exposed skin so we are starting to get the cyclist look of brown arms, legs, neck & faces above and below our bike shorts and Tshirts! Not really the best look when swimming but at least when we are in our cycle gear we're starting to look lean, tanned & fit cyclist!
The next few days could be rain (10mm was forecast yesterday for tomorrow!) so we may get a bit wet! As it has now warmed up a lot this hopefully will mean that we wont be too cold, although the temperature is set to drop as well. It was plenty warm enough for me this morning to do my yoga in a Tshirt & fisherman trousers & bare feet on the grass by the beach & go for a swim and body surf for a short while. way longer than the few dips we have had which was great. I am looking forward to when (like maybe tomorrow) when the water is warmer than the ambient temperature.
Looking forward to visiting Bellingen & connecting with the community there as we have a lot of contacts & know that it is a area active and empowered to be more sustainable just and healthy.
Roland
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