My mother always said if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all…

Okay I better say something about it. The day was delayed by my bearings in the rear hub of my bike. I had my peddles working intermittently. Luckily for us the extremely kind Aimee and Vaughan at Trail Adventures in town helped us out. Vaughan tried to help us fix it and ended up giving me a spare wheel and said to swap back on our way back through. He only charged us $20, extremely cheap! Finally on the move at 10.30am. From there it was pretty smooth to sailors cutting. We then turned away from the main road to follow the lake. The track got a bit hairy from there. I felt quite comfortable on it but I can see how others wouldn’t. There were spots where the rocks were so big, you just had to take it easy. The worst part about the day is we hadn’t mentally prepared ourselves for it. We thought it was going to be a groomed track around the lake. Well we were very wrong. The hills were pretty killer and the last incline was the worse. Not because it was so steep but it just kept going and it had a lot of false summits. The downhill was hard as you couldn’t go fast because of the track. It was also really windy which slowed us down further. Then when we got to the dam it was a steep down for 6km.

We made it to the pub around 5pm exhausted and ready for a beer! The day was only 35km but man it felt like more. Beer never tasted so good. I couldn’t help but have a sinking feeling with the knowledge of going back up that bloody hill to the dam for tomorrows journey. We ended up checking into our little place and enjoying some relaxing time after our showers then heading back to the pub for dinner. They had a good range of options and it was run by Indians. You can tell as all the food was well balanced and done extremely well. Joanne had a lot of vegetarian options and didn’t need to eat her cheese and crackers for dinner haha. Rowan was happy to have the $1 wings special and a burger. I had a roast lamb with vegetables it was great.