Julie and I were supposed to be hiking the 5,000km Continental Divide Trail in the US in 2020, but COVID-19 derailed that plan. Instead, we will have an adventure in Australia, circumnavigating the country on our bikes, a distance of about 16,500km taking approximately five and a half months. We will use minor roads where possible and occasionally catch ferries across rivers and inlets to avoid busier inland routes. We will camp some of the time and stay in motels, hotels, etc, at others. There will be stretches of up to five days with no accommodation or resupply available, so we will need to be self-sufficient.

Round Australia Bike Ride - Day 086 - Yulara

Day:  086

Date:  Friday, 25 September 2020

Start:  Yulara

Finish:  Yulara

Daily Kilometres:  0

Total Kilometres:  8744

Weather:  Cool early, then warm and sunny

Accommodation:  Tent 

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Donut/ , apple strudel

  Lunch:  Pie/Caesar salad, biscuits

  Dinner:  Macaroni cheese/Pasta carbonara, ice cream

Aches:  Nothing significant

Highlight:  Very lazy relaxing day

Lowlight:  None really

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

We decided to take up the Ayers Rock Campground's offer of "third night free" and have a relaxing day off amidst the excellent, but very unbusy, camp facilities and nearby good value supermarket.

Accordingly, there's not much to report.  There was some laundry done, some sunbathing by the pool, some reading, some phone calls, some social media, some shopping, some window-shopping, some tent patching, some preparation for returning to the road tomorrow, and I attended a short astronomical film presentation at the Yulara theatre, but no bike riding or hiking.  And all under clear blue skies in warm, but not hot, temperatures, with a cooling breeze.  Perfect.

We went to bed early, knowing we had a longish day tomorrow, probably with a headwind, and likely no internet access for a day or two.

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