Monday March 3, 2014

After four days with Kathy and Mark it was time to say goodbye.  They made us feel so welcome, we came as strangers and are leaving as friends.

It took us a while to get going, my panniers were not sitting right and then we stopped and took photos of Glenelg as we were leaving along the beachfront cycle path.

We saw this exercise park and thought it was a kids play area.  It is an area set up with some exercise equipment and the City will set up an exercise program for you and \”coach\” you for 4 weeks.

I told my Dad not to bring his car to his workouts!!

We were eventually leaving Glenelg at around 9:00.  This was a mistake as the temperature rose to over 33 degrees by about 11:00 am.  I always struggle in the heat and by noon, we were considering finding a B&B to stay overnight.  Unfortunately, there was nothing available so we pushed on to our original destination of Normanville.

It was hilly and hot and absolutely no shade.  It was a long, hot and fairly hilly ride.

Today was the first time that we had to buy water as I had almost run-out.  Today was a bit of a wake-up call.  We have to get started earlier to beat the heat of the day.  We will have to be leaving by 7:30ish and then be done by noon.

On the good side, we saw the first road sign for Kangaroo crossing and saw our first Kangaroo.  However, the kangaroo was road-kill and rather smelly.

 After we had finished the ride we decided on a cabin and not a tent site, as it was still very hot – 31 degrees. On the good side we were very cautious with the sun and had put plenty of sun cream on and didn’t burn.