22 October 2023

Wet, wet, wet.

Dry when I emerged from my lovely motel room but started to drizzle when I cycled up to the shops for a fried breakfast.

It stopped for a short while and then set in for the day.

So I headed off through some nice but soggy bush to the beach. Quick glimpse of the Southern Ocean and then headed off through more soggy bush to a loop around a river inlet. Spectacular scenery with really big trees but truly evil to cycle round as the road kept doing really steep ups and downs. So hard that it rather spoiled it for me.

Then a loop around the Valley of the Giants which is where the tourists see the big trees but did have some fun on a windy downhill bit through dripping forest. And then left and inland up countless miles of gravel and sandy road to, eventually, arrive at the hut rather later than planned.

Everything was soaking wet – I’d even used my tent groundsheet as an improvised rain cape. Fortunately it wasn’t too cold.

Grabbed some food and went to bed but not before I’d spotted…

Critter of the day! A tiny frog wandering around amongst the bikes.