Day 8 – Urunga to Sandy Beach. Home.
57 km +517m The advertised 'breakfast included' (on website, and on signs upstairs in the pub) was nowhere to be seen, so it was a cafe breakfast, and raised eyebrows at what you got for the $90 a night tariff.Not a soul to be seen as we reversed the tandem-carry out and down the back …
Day 7 – Nambucca to Urunga
24k + 230m Shortest tour day ever. What the heck, we're on holidays. So the accommodation last night was pretty nice. It was more or less a B&B that I'd found on booking.com, at the back of a house, and overlooking the bush. It was well-provisioned with coffee, tea, and breakfast cereal (including a generous …
Day 6 – Hat Head to Nambucca
80 km + 370m (or +551 according to his GPS - felt more like that of course!) 1 magpie swoop (on the Hat Head side of Gladstone - totally unexpected as it didn't swoop us the other day, what's with that?!) We got away just after 8am, which was an improvement on other days! A …
Rest day at Hat Head
Unsurprisingly we had a bit of a sleep-in! Mind you, that was interrupted by bird noise pandemonium at around 6.30am. We found out later that the next-door neighbour feeds the birds at about that time. Great. Well, I suppose it will count as the alarm tomorrow.I *extra* deserved that sleep in, having done some *extra* …
Day 5 – Willawarrin to Hat Head
68 km+ 717m1 magpie swoop1 horn-blowing dickhead An 'interesting' night. The less said about my naivety (and anxiety about breaking 'rules') the better. Spent much too much time worrying about the security of the bike. I've learnt from it. It was also yet another night of trying to find somewhere (in these covid distancing times) …
Day 4 – Taylors Arm to Willawarrin
33km. +707m or +854m (Felt like 854 to me) 0 maggies Another pretty good meal at the pub last night. We were the accidental beneficiaries of a local history lesson through listening in to the RSL sub-branch meeting in the dining room. Historical Pub ambience, albeit Covid style: Well the forecast for today wasn't good. …
Day 3 – Macksville to Taylors Arm
28k. +488m No magpies Short day because we've got some tough climbs on dirt tomorrow. We took a bit of a back road detour a few k's out of Macksville. Again it's a dirt vs traffic thing. Then the chain broke just as we hit the gravel (and a climb) about 10k in. Bummer. Lucky …
Day 2 – Mylestom to Macksville via Bowraville
60km + 692m or +837m depending on whose Strava is right 1 magpie swoop * * same one outside the caravan park as yesterday afternoon, but I'm counting attacks not individual birds 1 dickhead in a ute (90% of the time it's a ute). No mate, you do not blow your horn to order us …
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