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 104 - Adelaide

Day:  104

Date:  Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Start:  Adelaide

Finish:  Adelaide

Daily Kilometres:  0 (click here and for Julie's Strava and photos of today's walks)

Total Kilometres:  10780

Weather:  Warm and sunny

Accommodation:  Apartment

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Scrambled eggs, rissoles & bacon

  Lunch:  Egg & salad roll/Tandoori chicken roll

  Dinner:  Rissoles & vegetables/Steak & vegetables, apple crumble & ice cream

Aches:  Nothing significant

Highlight:  Nothing in particular, but a very pleasant warm sunny day wandering around Adelaide

Lowlight:  Lukewarm showers in our apartment until a maintenance man found a previous tenant had turned off a valve (or so he said).

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

We had a slow start to the day and enjoyed a home-cooked breakfast, for a change, before going for a walk around the downtown area including paths along the River Torrens, the Adelaide Oval, Rundle Mall, Pilgrim Uniting Church (where my sister was minister for a number of years) and the lively and interesting Central Markets full of appetising food and fresh produce stalls (and where COVID-19 seemed to be a distant memory).

We bought some scrumptious rolls from one of the market vendors and took them to the very pleasant Victoria Square where we joined scores of office workers eating lunch on a beautiful spring day.  After lunch, we caught a tram to the city's main beachside suburb, Glenelg, and had a wander around before returning to the city and collecting our serviced bikes from the shop near our apartment.  No major problems were found, which is a testament to the quality of the bikes given the pounding they have received over the past 8,000 kilometres with virtually no maintenance.

We had another home-cooked meal for dinner and a quiet evening.  Back on the road tomorrow.

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