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Tasmania: it's a bit damp
But first: bloody hell. As ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uon said when sending me the link: maybe we do actually live in the future now. I am v impressed indeed.
Today & yesterday I have CHEATED & forked out to live in the indoors rather than the outdoors. This is because the weather is being absolutely foul. Particularly yesterday, when I had an exciting 65km of riding into rain and a strong headwind, in 15deg temps. Up mountains. (Well. Big hills.). It reminded me v much of Wales, except more so. (Ideal preparation for future BCMs: a couple of weeks of touring somewhere hilly.) Anyway: on arrival at Triabunna campsite, the nice owner-person noted that for an extra $5 I could have an indoor bed in their bunkhouse. We both looked at the rain lashing not so much down as *across*, outside. "You know," I said, "that actually sounds like quite a good idea."
She gave me a duvet and a blanket and I spent the next 2 hrs on the sofa in their camp kitchen, tucked up under the blanket with a nice cup of tea and a trashy novel from their swap-bookshelf, warming myself backup.
Today I was going to go to Maria Island, but the ferry almost certainly wasn't going to run (because of the weather), and anyway I don't have with me hiking kit suitable for strong winds and rain. So instead I set off up the coast to Swansea - a far better ride than yesterday due to the fact that a) it hardly really rained at all, & b) the wind was behind me. Whoosh! I should however by now know better than to believe the routesheet when it says "pancake flat": their reference for "pancake flat" is obviously something a bit bumpier than the marshes out near Rye.
Spent the afternoon pottering round Swansea, which is v nice even in storm conditions. Hoping that things die down tomorrow. (BBC weather indicates that it will be nicer in Hobart, anyway, so maybe this will extend 100k north.)
uon said when sending me the link: maybe we do actually live in the future now. I am v impressed indeed.Today & yesterday I have CHEATED & forked out to live in the indoors rather than the outdoors. This is because the weather is being absolutely foul. Particularly yesterday, when I had an exciting 65km of riding into rain and a strong headwind, in 15deg temps. Up mountains. (Well. Big hills.). It reminded me v much of Wales, except more so. (Ideal preparation for future BCMs: a couple of weeks of touring somewhere hilly.) Anyway: on arrival at Triabunna campsite, the nice owner-person noted that for an extra $5 I could have an indoor bed in their bunkhouse. We both looked at the rain lashing not so much down as *across*, outside. "You know," I said, "that actually sounds like quite a good idea."
She gave me a duvet and a blanket and I spent the next 2 hrs on the sofa in their camp kitchen, tucked up under the blanket with a nice cup of tea and a trashy novel from their swap-bookshelf, warming myself backup.
Today I was going to go to Maria Island, but the ferry almost certainly wasn't going to run (because of the weather), and anyway I don't have with me hiking kit suitable for strong winds and rain. So instead I set off up the coast to Swansea - a far better ride than yesterday due to the fact that a) it hardly really rained at all, & b) the wind was behind me. Whoosh! I should however by now know better than to believe the routesheet when it says "pancake flat": their reference for "pancake flat" is obviously something a bit bumpier than the marshes out near Rye.
Spent the afternoon pottering round Swansea, which is v nice even in storm conditions. Hoping that things die down tomorrow. (BBC weather indicates that it will be nicer in Hobart, anyway, so maybe this will extend 100k north.)