Wednesday May 7, 2014

A lovely route today, undulating hills following the Tweed Coast Way for the most part.  We are staying at a warm showers tonight and they had emailed us about this route. After leaving Brunswick Heads we found the Old Pacific Highway and followed it for a short while before finding the Tweed Coast Way.  The Tweed Coast Way took us through some more sugar cane fields and rural farmland area, then followed the coastal road for about 45 kms.  The weather was perfect cycling weather and a bit of a tail wind.

They named a beach after my nephew!

We had to join the Highway for a short while into Tweed Heads and it was very busy with lots of interchanges to negotiate.  I came off the Highway at the first opportunity – Tweed Heads South.  Ralf punched the address into the Garmin and as usual I didn’t trust the route.  I popped into a bike shop for directions – he didn’t know the address because it was in Tweed Heads not Tweed Heads South.  So we followed the directions for the Garmin which turned out to be bang on, even taking us through the short cut to our warm showers host’s house.

We arrived just after 1:00 pm, we had some lunch and settled in.  Kevin and Robyn are experienced touring cyclists and have toured extensively in Europe.  They told us about cycling books that we could get while we were in England which had excellent maps and descriptions of the routes.  Definitely pick these books up when we are there.

We exchanged a lot of information about Canada and Europe, as Kevin and Robyn are going to Canada in June for five months.  We had a lovely time with them.

They took us for a drive before dinner and we walked along the coast path and saw Surfers Paradise from Tweed Heads.  I was expecting a Town similar to Byron Bay not a skyline of high-rises.