Pyramid Hill to Boort

Pyramid Hill to Boort = 42km
Cummulative total = 251km

It was a very nice restful day at Pyramid Hill yesterday, a little chully in the shade but a little too warm in the sun .... I could never get it "just" right!  We did have a little visitor in the part yesterday, actually Neil spotted it as he was going to the toilet - a small snake about 25cm long (so a bubba but just as lethal as its mumma!!!) sunning itself on the corner of the toilet block, it sensed Neil and ducked into one of the many holes - we were very cautious when going to the toilet - don't think it could get in any of the toilets but definitely it could be hanging around outside!
We left to a bright sunny day but the wind is blowing predominantly from the south so it is a little cool - in fact it is blowing from the south for the remaining days that we are cycling so that means cooler weather and headwinds!!!
We are in the town of Boort which todays ride was predominantly west so it was a cross head wind for us - the legs held up pretty well and it was on 42km to get here.  The road was quiet to the Loddon Valley highway and we were on that for around 1km and that had more cars and truckls pass us in that short distance than what has passed us over the past week!  Glad to get of this road and take a quieter road to Boort - although that wasn't as quiet as what I thought it would be - but ridable and everyone was patient with us!
We did cross of the Loddon River Dad and this is was it is like ...

 at this point it looks ok but not sure on the situation with trees down blocking your way.
We got to Boort around lunchtime and this is our 3rd time here but this time we have wikicamps and we decided to give the showgrounds a go.  Previously we stayed at the caravan park on the lake and the first time he stuck us at the far end of the park right next to the ski club and we basically had to get our touring gear together just to the toilet as we were so far away from it and to top it all off he charged us a fortune!  The second time he still charged us a fortune but put us at the other end of the park but closer to toilets.  On both occassions I never really thought much of Boort - so this time they have opended the showgrounds and we arrive and it is really quite desolate and the notice says you are to be fully self contained but wikicamps says tents are ok and it has toilets and shower - we see the toilets and find the shower (more on that later .. you are going to love it Sharon!!!).  So we are not sure if we can stay here so we cycle into town to ask at the tourist info ... while waiting for Neil I take a photo of the 2 bikes

 so apparently it is ok for us so we come back and another couple in a caravan has rocked up so we decide to pitch not far from them ...

 as you can see from our outlook it ain't flash but you put a donation in the box - since we aren't using electricity I think we will pop in $5 - but once you see the shower you might think $2 or $0!!!  Our outlook ...

 So after lunch another caravan turns up so we think there might be a crowd here (later another van turned up!)  so we should hit the one and only shower ... well first the toilets - I have always thought it strange as we have cycled over the past 9 years and through some very dry spells that the small towns don't adopted water saving measures - the Australian need to have green grass in such an arid environment is really bizarre and so sprinklers are constantly going but the toilet cisterns are just out of this world - they are massive and don't have half flushes so you have to do a full and that goes on forever and uses around 100 litres of water per flush - no exaggeration there!  So the toilets here have the biggest cisterns I have ever seen - this is why Little Boort lake is dry!
Onto the shower ... Sharon brace yourself for this ... the change area (it was ok)

 inside the shower!

I can hear you scream Sharon - LOL it was a little on the grubby side but it had really hot water and is probably the worst we have encountered but we still had showers in it!

So clean and refreshed we walked into town and there are a few more spanner art works in town (and no we didn't visit him as he lives to far out to ride there and back) a seat around a tree ...

 and something that had seats on them

 other works from other artists - a fish

 and a shag

 here is Lake Boort itself

 while in town the museum was open so we went in there and look what I found!

So tomorrow we are heading to Wedderburn.