Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Day 19 Waikerie to Swan Reach

Woken very early this morning by two riders rummaging around in their tents as early as 5 am. I had one on each side of the truck and I was not a happy chappy. B1 had a tube he needed to change and apologised for the disturbance but he didn't want to be late or to hold the group up. I forgave him.

This wasn't the best start to the day. Poor old Julien, after his victory yesterday, ended up with a flat tyre early into the ride today. Annie stopped and assisted him with the changing of the tyre.
Morning tea was at Morgon where we had to go back and forth across on the Ferry. Gareth has been missing this morning but he turned up for morning tea. It was discovered later that where Collis said turn left out of the caravan park, Gareth turned right then left further down that road and ended up catching the ferry at Waikerie and riding on the opposite side of the Murray to everyone else. The result was the same but we could have been in trouble if he broke down and we didn't know where he was.

After morning tea, Julien was again found on the side of the road looking very forlorn and it turned out he had broken the bolt that holds his bike seat on. Could have been an uncomfortable ride if we hadn't turned up. We couldn't fix it so he had to ride the spare bike for the rest of the day. The spare bike isn't the greatest on hills due to the gearing and there were a few hills today. Poor Julien. It also didn't have all the gadgetry attached so he didn't have any idea how far or how fast he was travelling. Lunch was on the cliffs overlooking the Murray.

B1 & B2 decided to ride with Julien for the rest of the day as he was a bit distressed with everything that had occurred today. Arrived in Swan Reach just after 2 pm and all was good. Collis kept saying the toilets at the caravan park had been updated but he was wrong. They are still the same old toilets.

The murray here is lovely with a sandy beach and lots of jetties out into the river. It is getting wider as we travel down and it is also getting greener- the water that is.

The whole group went to the pub for dinner and most were pleased with the meals and all impressed with the scenery from the decking. Lovely mild night.


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