Friday March 28, 2014

We followed Ken’s route to the rail trail and joined the trail in the small Village of Buffalo.  It was a great trail and we were riding quickly doing a comfortable speed of 20 kph.  Doing 20 kph on a rail trail is quite unusual, usually you have to deal with odd surfaces and generally have to go a little slower.

We caught up with two cyclists and discussed where we were going, well unfortunately we were going in the wrong direction.  We had cycled 10 ks in the wrong direction.  No idea why, Ken had given us good directions, it felt as if we were going the right way!!  The cyclists had a good map of the trail and told us if we turned around we would get to Foster (25 ks).  Or if we continued we could pick up the South Gippsland Highway (16 ks).  I wanted to turn around because I knew the highway would be hillier.

It was shorter on the highway, so we carried on along the road.  It was hillier, much hillier, but beautiful views and great downhills.

We called our warm showers host, who said he lived up another big hill and if we liked he would pick us up.  Yes please, we would like that option.  David and Deb picked us up.  The bikes went in the back of David’s car and I went in the car with Deb, who is not cycling.  It would have been a very steep climb.

We had a wonderful evening with them and stayed up very late chatting until 11:30 pm.

David and Deb have a beautiful house in the hills with stunning scenery.  David built it himself absolutely beautiful.