A change of plan

G and T go south!
To the Gong.

The original plan was to ride our bikes in the company of our lovely daughter A to Gerringong.

However.....the day looked a bit like this....

Doesn't look too bad you say?
It also looked like this....

So, discretion being the better part of valour....or something, we walked instead.....from Kiama towards Gerringong.
Along the coastal path.

Some of us walked all the way to Gerringong....some of walked back and got the car and drove to Gerringong.

When we got to Gerringong, we did this.....

...at The Perfect Break Cafe.
Well deserved I'd say!

Plan B turned out rather well after all.

Huts and the High Country

There's something about huts.
Is it the the stories they tell, their history, the remote spots, the vernacular architecture, the flimsiness, the way they laugh in the face of nature?
What is it?

The high country has more then it's fair share of huts that can be visited and appreciated and used if need be.

We've visited quite a few in the New South Wales alps, we have used them as emergency shelters sometimes.
We have also stayed in the old huts along the Overland Track in Tassie.
We even joined the Kosciusko Huts Association at one stage.

So it was nice to visit some huts in the high country of Victoria and take some snaps!

 Howards Hut, built in 1962 for use by cattlemen.

JB Plain Hut, built in 1971 by scouts and venturers 

using material from two other houses.

 Wallace's Hut, built in 1889 by the three Wallace brothers, 

cattlemen of the high country.

 Cope Hut, built in 1929 as a ski refuge.

Great, eh?

In which we take to the railtrails

Northern Victoria is a great place for bike riding.
The old railway lines were removed at some stage and nice even flat or gently graded bike and walking tracks were installed.
What a brilliant idea!

I must admit that this was one of the reasons for choosing this part of the world to visit, that and because it is somewhere that we'd never been before.


It is all very civilised - you can ride from town to town, from cafe to cafe, from winery to winery.
And if you don't want to ride back you can arrange for the nice bike collection people to get you (or in my case the adorable and ever-dependable G)

Ride #1.
From Bright to Myrtleford.

See - nice and flat!

Ride # 2.
From Everton station to Myrtleford.
(It would have been more convenient to start at Myrtleford but we were unsure about the lunching options at Everton, so had a longer drive to start at Everton)

This is where I ended up - at Gapsted wines!
I couldn't push another pedal.

Ride #3
From Milawa, to Milawa cheese factory then to Oxley and back.

Then I fell off!

We have just rewarded ourselves with new bikes!
I love mine.
And I have got a spiffy new helmet - that fits!

G couldn't resist this one - it was a bargain.