On the Road Again
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 1:15PM
Giller

I am now making my way up to Sydney along the coast. I decided to exit Melbourne via the Mornington Peninsula. This was the least busy and most scenic route out of town. From Stony Point I took the ferry to Cowes on Philip Island where the MotoGP and F1 track is located. Indeed, there is more than just little penguins on the island, there is a chocolate factory too so I had to take the tour on my way out. If you are particularly bored and want to check google maps you will see that I am making my way along the South Gippsland Highway, although 32k of the route today was a really nice rail-trail to the town of Foster. Old railway trails, which are covered with crushed gravel, to allow for biking and walking are reasonably common here. They are pretty much put together by volunteers. It's always pleasant to find such trails. Yesterday I had a 10k trail through the Perregrine reserve, which is effectively wetlands. This meant that I was riding over wetlands on a boardwalk, not exactly something I'll do too often. Tomorrow I'll be in Sale and the day after I'll be at Lakes Entrance where I may take a day-off to explore. There is an option of getting off the road further on and biking on dirt-track to Point Hicks. Apparently the largest sand dunes in the world are here but I'm a bit loath to believe any hype after the deception of last night's 'world famous' penguin parade. I can't believe I let mass euphoria get the better of my cynicism but hopefully that's the last time I waste four hours of my life. Of course, the crowd of morons proved far more interesting than the penguins (as you promised Sulli). At least the ride back in the pitch black was good fun ... and yes, I had my lights mom!

In any case I spent the day agonising over whether I would go into Wilson's Promontory or not. This is a beautiful headland off the coast of Victoria that weekenders flock too. It's really difficult to get accommodation in high season (even with a tent) and there are loads of scenic walks. It's a place that needs more than a couple of days to soak up and of course it's an extra 100k of biking out and back from here, so I thought it best to leave until I'm in Melbourne again at some point (yes, I like the place). In any case, the scenery has been really good and the roads are very calm so far. If it keeps up like this I won't regret the decision.

Enough of me rambling. I just logged on to post my picture-book of Melbourne. If you check the gallery you will see it alongside the recently posted Fixed Gear gallery (if you havn't already checked). I know you are all closet New York hipsters and so I don't have to explain the fixed gear scene. Melbourne is Fixer heaven by all accounts.

Happy weekend
giller 

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