Cycling in New South Wales

The Fernleigh Track Rail Trail

Ride - The Fernleigh Track Rail Trail.
Distance - 30 km (return).
Terrain - Sealed for the full distance.
Difficulty - Easy - a perfect family cycle. The track slopes gently uphill from both ends with the high point at Whitebridge.
Highlights - Hearing the bell-birds sing.
Website and map - Click here.

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Griffith, Narrandera, koalas and the destruction of David's bike.

We started the morning innocently enough. We are at Griffith, the first stop on our much delayed trip to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This is third time lucky territory, if we don't make it this time we will give up forever.

Griffith and its neighbours Leeton and Narrandera are the three large towns of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (the 'MIA'). The MIA extends across 1,600,000 acres of land in central New South Wales and has made the area green and fertile - a welcome change from the barren countryside and red dirt of so much of central and 

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How to wreck a bike!

You might remember from my last post (click - here to read it):-

1. We went looking for koalas,
2. cycled through a patch of devil thorns,
3. got four flat tyres in rapid succession, and 
4. struggled to get David's rear wheel seated back into it's cradle.

Tired and stressed and finally  back at our hotel, we decided to deal with the flat tyres the next day. In the morning we woke to discover my rear tyre had joined the party and also gone flat. This brought our puncture count to five.

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Cycling at Port Macquarie

Ride - Port Macquarie
Distance - 34.5 km
Terrain - Mostly on road, very light traffic.
Difficulty - Easy.
Highlights - The ferry ride across the Hastings River.

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