Day 4… of rain

Day 3 & 4: Wollongong, NSW
Distance cycled: 25km

We have been on the road for 4 days and it has been showering for 4 days. It didn’t stop us, and sure not the Aussies! As we rode past town after town, we witnessed one crowd after another braving the waves surfing or rowing, walking their dogs and going for a run. It was an easy and fantastic ride literally along the coast, especially thanks to the bike path shortly after we left Coledale, starting from Thirroul.

When we first arrived in Wollongong yesterday, taking shelter by the promenade and contemplating whether to cycle further south to the Windang Beach Tourist Park or backtrack towards Towradgi, a friendly stranger came up to us and said “We couldn’t have picked a better time for our ride, could we?” Charlie, on his bike with 2 dogs on tow, chatted with us and shared his cycling trip around Europe, down Mount Kosciuszko and the surroundings of Wollongong. We have spoken to at least 5 people who cycle frequently for leisure. We decided to go back north again as it is the closest place to camp near Wollongong and the university, where Charlie said only 3 trees used to stand on the university’s ground. All 3 were knocked down by wind. The trees on campus now are all hand-planted and it is a forest!

So we took the rest of the day off, cleaning ourselves and our bikes (Sue made a promise to her bike she named Reed that she would clean her!). After another go at Scrabbles with Lukas getting better and coming up with ingenious words like “brr”, “moo”, “op”, “pic” etc (that are words according to the official Scrabbles dictionary), we hit the hay early and got almost 12 hours of good rest.


It still drizzles but it could have been worse. Having found our way to the University of Wollongong’s library, we will base ourselves here for the next 2 days for Lukas to work on his manuscript and for Sue to start learning R (if she doesn’t stop procrastinating) ;p
Ciao!

Locations: [NSW] North Sydney - Heathcote - Coledale - Wollongong