Tuesday March 11, 2014

A short ride today.  We got started a little after 8:15 as we had a couple of rain-showers and were chatting to other people in the camp kitchen.

The route today was varied with a south-westerly wind.  We cycled the 5 km cycle path out of Kingston and then onto the B101.  The first part was typical scenery of bushland and pastoral land, grazing beef and sheep.  We then passed a managed forestry area about 10 kms of straight rows of pine trees.  We actually had some hills to go up today !! Mount Benson – on our Garmin\’s we had an elevation of 30 metres. No I haven’t missed a zero!

We arrived in Robe at about 11:30 settled into the camp site and headed into the historic downtown of Robe, along a shoreline path.

Robe is similar to Kingston a coastal Town.  Robe is more compact as most of its historic buildings are centred around the Bay.  The historic buildings all have historic plaques telling you the history of the building.  Kingston did not have the historic plaques. It is helpful to have the plaques on the buildings.

The shoreline near Robe is very rugged and was the cause of many shipwrecks.