Cycle Tour

Day 3 Edithburg wind farm

Day 3 near the finish

Day 2 lunch break Below- Day 3 near the finish

Day 2 at innes

Cycle tour- Day 1
On the first day of the cycle tour, we rode in the morning and than in the afternoon. The morning stared with a 20 kilometre ride from the Wambana to West Cowie and back. Just before with left the bitumen Ben had a huge crash. This was a result of ben stopping really quickly as everyone around in did, although he put on the front brake and flew over the handle bars. And then hussey ran over him, hussey was ok although a slight cut on the hand, but Ben did something to his wrist and arm and a week latter he got his cast on as he broke his arm. For most this was a long ride as know one had rode that far before but this was a nice ride as the weather was nice and sunny. The flies were so bad and they really annoyed me, sandow killed 30 in like 20 minutes . We passed an old school with a car in it and Moff found an old book on baterica, his favourite subject. It was hard because the road was sandy, and roads were bumpy.

We came back for lunch were I had a wrap tuna and some pea-nut paste. We posted a few letters, mine went to my parents and my brother.The afternoon was where we headed in a long route around to Warooka to post the first batch of letters. We rode on the main road out of pt Turton, some boys carried there bikes as they were late to the meeting place. We took a really fun dirt track called Tuckokoowie, this was fun as we got to charge in head and it was bumpy and sandy. This was another 20 kilometre ride on a road with more dirt than concrete. This was also hard because near the end there were two rather large hills. My bum was a bit soar and I had no mental pain. That night we had to cooked plain pasta on a trangia, that wasn’t that hard to cook and as a bonus Charlie cleaned. It was a really fun day and we all went to bed very tried and with soar bottoms.


Cycle tour-Day 2
On the second day we got up and drove too Innes National park, the instructors said that this would be a 52 kilometre ride with a break at the true bridge lighthouse. The ride started by going up a big hill, but going up a hill means we get to go all the way down. We got up to around 40 kilometres per hour with a head wind. I noticed that my bottom wasn’t as sore that dad. The views were really good, of the ocean and they kept my going. My mental strength was fine as I was at the back helping the slower ones. Lunch was a good lunch with me speeding through my letter. The lunch was the same as yesterday and was the same for the rest of the week. Before lunch we went a long hill, which really made lunch feel worth it. Going down hill was fun and I went really fast. We stopped at the bottom and Paul introduced the 2 8 challenge, we I put my hand up for. My bottom didn’t feel that sore during the day as I didn’t have time to think about it. The challenge was the 2 8 challenge and I overcame them by the encouragement of others. The 2 8 challenge is where you have to stay in 2 on the front gear and 8 on the back gear, it was really hard and a great achievement

Cycle tour- Day 3
For the last day there was relief for some and sadness for others. We started just out of Warooka, the ride was mend to be longer than all the other days and I was ready for it. I was leader for that day so for most of the I rode at the back and helped the others. Andrew was the other leader and he was in charge of the navigation, which he did well. I got on the bike with a bit of a wince. The lunch spot was suicide point and was enjoyable and again I sped out my letter again. I rallied up the troops early and we got going early. As we rode we rode past pepper point and then past a really cool, massive wind farm. And I was really impressed with the size and the height of the wind farm, I was pretty impressed. We rode on into the town of Edinburgh, we rode through to the tidal pool. Which was very refreshing and cold.

The bikes were all the same as this