Beaufort to Lismore

Beaufort to Lismore = 61km

Cummulative total = 1793km

It was a miserable day today for cycling - we woke up and it was cold and a misty rain hanging around. We decided to leave and to never return to this place as every time we come here it rains!

The light drizzle did not let up for most of the day - we thought that maybe the drizzle will cease by morning tea as we go lower down but no it was here for most of the day until 40km down the road or around 12.30pm where it was just every now and then. Kouta was not happy that his basket got wet I did manage to put a plastic bag under his shade cloth so that stopped alot of the rain and I also spread his polythene plastic under his basket so that the spray from the road won't come up and wet his basket even more. He doesn't like sitting in his basket when it is wet so he spent a great deal of today standing up! which makes it very sore for me with the constant movement of the trailer you tend to feel it on the lower part of the back - it was a little sore by the end of the day!

Every now and then we did get a break from the drizzle but the wind was coming from the south and it was a head wind and very cold. We both wore our rain coats all day - even when we got closer to Lismore where the weather cleared it was still too cold to take them off!

we had a cuppa at Skipton. The rest stop was next to Emu Creek and you could see where the floods had come through

if you look at the trees to the left you can see brown grass hanging off the trees - this is how high the creek was, so around 2.5-3 meters more than what it is in this photo. It did flood the town as the bridge going over it is at the base of a hill so anything that is in the dip where the hills are got flooded - the pub was being cleaned out when we were here - the lower floor got flooded.

Despite dropping 200m it didn't feel like any down hill today - it was so gradual that with a head wind you didn't really notice it - I thought there was a fair bit of undulations today but that could have been my imagination due to the solid headwind.

Tomorrow is another hard day to Colac - it looks to be very rolling and around 75km - at the moment everything is hanging of the bikes trying to dry!