June 29th - Sydney to Kincumber

Distance	Overall Total
75 km	1299 km

Headed north out of sydney CBD, across the harbour bridge. Eventually find Manly beach and work my way up the coast, getting to Palm beach eventually.



Use the ferry to cross the channel. The late start and ferry delay, means i have to stop in Kilcumber to the night.

June 24th - 28th - Sydney

June 24th - Sydney 1

Wake up about 7ish, with some auld dude snoring into my ear, an accidental
of movement woken him - punk. So we seem to be close to sydney, i think we
must be ahead of schedule. We hit the sydney subarbs and the train like
slows to waking pace - completly ridiculose. The old dude has started snoring
again,, get me of this train..

Eventually get into sydney main station. At last a proper city. Anyway, sort
of somewhere to stay. Ireland play the aussies tonight, so arrange to meet a
friend of my sisters. The irish mafia are everywhere. Watch the match in coogee,
the bar has this special on once the game that all scooner beers are free until
the first point is scored. We had a scare after 5 min when ireland looked liked
kicking a point, but our man o'gara went for the line. Someone scores after about
15 mins, and ther must be about 20 beers of the table in front of us. Needless to
say these where all drank, the result of the game was forgotten, and of course we
have to head back into the city for some dodgy irish pub.

June 25th - Sydney 2

Think i got home about 4ish, with the biggest collection of aussie coins in
my pockets that anyone has ever gathered.

I woke up about 4ish (pm). Small tour of the town, various promises of never
drinking again.

June 23th - Adelaide to Sydney

10.00am

Left adelaide on a 24 hour train journey to sydney.

4.00pm

I know why the train takes 24 hours, because its only going about
30kmph - i reckon i'd cycle quicker. Seems every OAP in austalia is
afraid of flyling or else they gets a free ticket, because the average
age on the train has to be in the triple figures. Train stops for a
hour at broken hill, maybe there's a retirment village there.

7.00pm

Broken Hill - having been stuck on the train for 8 hours i was looking
forward to this stop, to strech my legs for an hour. I was back in my
seat after 15 minutes - absolutly NOTHING to do in this town.

23.00pm

Two dudes have got on from somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I now know how
to track, kill and a render various native and ferial animals of the austalian
outback. Seems shooting is the main leisure activity of the two dudes. Kangeroos,
foxes, emu's, wild boars, rabbits, cats and many more animals are on the nightly
hit list for these boys. Beers and four wheel drive vechicals are also needed.

00.43pm

All the beer has been drunk and the bar's closed. The track seems to have been built over every bump.

June 20th - Kangaroo Island Bus Tour

Seal Bay



Remarkable Rock





At last, they have found some thing that will fit on my head. Might be a bit heavy for the bike but..





Another cool aussie sun set

June 21th - Cape Jervis to Adelaide

Distance	Time	Overall Total
101 km	4h	1224 km

Always going to a boring day with a return leg back to adelaide. Had to get the
8.30 ferry which was as choppy as the irish sea in winter. Was feeling a little
bit green when we arrived.



A nasty 350m climb for the 5 km was tough, and not cleaning the chain after the dirty roads on monday was not the best idea. Had a strong head wind all the way, which made the going hard, and you know your up against it when you have to peddle to keep the bike going downhill.

June 19th - Kangaroo Island Cycle

Distance	Time	Overall Total
101 km	4h	1224 km

Another really well setup YHA hostel, just 5 mins from the port in penneshaw.



Having booked myself on a bus tour tomorrow, i took the bike and did some
off road touring, around the davids penisula end of the island.


The dirt roads are fine to cycle on, but alot of concentration is need to avoid
holes and stones. I found cycling in the middle of the road the best, as the road
edges tended to contain patches of soft sand that the front wheel would stick in.



The town of penneshaw from above, with the main land in the back ground.

June 18th - Adelaide to Cape Jervis

Distance	Time	Overall Total
113 km	4h 52m	1123 km

Started about 9am and meet a lot of sunday cycle groups leaving from adelaide
for the hills as i made my way out of the city.

I worked my way down the feriuer penninsula

The sea link ferry covered the 12km strech between kangeroo island and the main
land in 45 minutes.

Since i arrived at the ferry at 3, and the next sailing wasn't until 6, i was about i capture this neat sun set across st vincents bay.

A day had a couple of a small climbs, with the last 20km a constant rise. The decent to the ferry from 350m was quick.