Vanderpants Oz Tour

85 clicks in the headwinds

howdy everyone – well another succesful day on the road and again, I am thinnking damn, when is going to get hard for alex hahaha. Don’t now why but we were singing Michael Jackons Black or White this morning – wtf hahaha

We went to the bakery in the morning and a bunch of cyclists were there on a ‘supported’ tour pfffft hahahaha and we had a good yarn, packed our panniers with pasties and rolls as we know we won’t be getting almost any chance for water or food in the next two days.

Onboard goes 8 litres of water and heaps of food and boy were we feeling it. Those pedals were pushing a bit harder into the wind today along that bloody coorong. It was a day filled with lots of mini adventures. Beaches, good lunches (pastie inside a bread roll mmmmmm), flying with pelicans (watch the vid at the end), a random story that i’ll talk about in a minute that got Alex and I talking ALL day about and ended in an awesome campsite at the end of the day with hardly any wind, bugs or rain – this isn’t touring I said to Alex -it’s HEEEAPS harder than this hahahaha

We saw a few bottles of pee today – yup you read that corretly haha – I think truckies or whoever must pee in a bottle then throw it out – like wtf peoples – cmon hahahaha

I got my drone out a few times today which was fun – i’m getting better at it and loving it – can’t wait for great ocen road or somewhere up top of Oz that’s going to be wild.

The drone ran out of battery chasing some pelicans though and ALMOST didn’t get home – was a setting issue – i’ve fixed that now! – we had to back track a bit to find it but luckily we did!

Alex was saying to me today that it feels like we have been on the road for 8 days – It’s like that because so many mini adventures occur. So many discussions. So many hikes. So many randoms. So many different stops and scenery changes – the list goes on – you’d think all ya do is cycle but its so much more than that. You wouldn’t think you’re in SA still for most of our days it’s nuts. All the nooks and crannies and different people you see and things you do is crazy. Not only that but weather changes, clothing changes, injuries to negotiate bla bla bla – losts of new things every day it’s wild and refreshing

OK so lunch came about AND I knew there was a pub up the road that has closed down it’s main pub area but was kind of a motel – has a table (from last time i was there a few years ago on ‘from take 1 round Oz) so there we were enjoying a bread roll and out came the owner and was super nice and said we can have water and chill and eat and THEN started to talk to us about how he was stabbed not too long ago – ummmmm ok tell me more 🙂

He then went on to say that his next door neighbour broke into his pub and stabbed him multiple times an then ran off and he showed us all the scars and told us in detail and then the news article about it. The sliding doors moment for me was last time i was cycling around Oz – I slept behind this guys house hahahaha that next door neighbour was living there at the time – as Alex and I thanked him and rode off, we were pretty silent for a while and then discussed it all IN LENGTH – it was a weird couple hours hahahaha talk about wtf. We talked, laugh, shook our heads, was in disbelief – it ws a hell of a ride away from there hahaha. Little did I know the lunch table we were eating on was part of the crime scene hahahaha……

Ok so that was excellent. Tonight will be a bit of a shorter blog sorry peeps- we are wild camping, it’s cold, I need to pack up my gear bla bla borrring

so to end it I will say the last half of the day was kind of a slog however, filled with amazing scenery, laughs and some awesome cycling. We went for a walk along the beach like lovers, got almost our 10,000 steps up too and then trundled back to our site for some tucker (dehy meal which went down pretty alright)

I tried to upload an awesome video tonight but damn it the 4g isn’t happening out here so you will have to wait until tomorrow sorry but here are some pics of the day

SIGNING OUT

85 kms

Avg Speed – 15

Total Distance – 243kms

Elevation – 250

signing out peeps

look out for that vid tomorrow……..