meander

unfortunately last night's dinner missed a key ingredient - carbohydrates. somebody (who shall remain nameless) forgot to buy rice along with the rest of the other contents when we stopped at the shops. this error made itself known 20 minutes into the ride (while still on the flat) by our inability to get out of the small chain ring. we made straight for the willunga bakery (7km down the road) and gorged ourselves!

from there we headed south and tried to avoid the main highway by choosing all the back roads. unfortunately the back roads included the hills that the highway went around. first up was old sellicks hill road, which the friendly guy in the bike shop said would be "epic". it was only 5km long, but the first half went up about 250m and then straight down again - all on dirt and rocks. so 4km/h up and not much faster on the way down.

we then jumped over the highway and took another back road which went straight up the side of a hill for about 1km at almost 20%. fortunately kai was awake by now so we were able to stop a couple of times (when he's asleep we dare not stop in case he wakes up!). again, the bike shop guy had said this would also be "epic". from there the road continued up and above a reservoir via a lookout that appeared to be a timewarp into the 1960s.

a screaming downhill brought us back to the coast and a caravan park in normanville beach. while eating dinner (take away as we were too tired to cook) we met another adventurer. this guy is walking around SA in particular the heysen trail which is training for the appalachian trail. wow!

53km, 4h05m, 13.0km/h avg, 952m climbing, 128km total