June 10, 2024
Home Hill
A short ride planned for today so we were in no rush to get away.
The campground was between the pub and some farmland in which there were some cattle that seemed to be quite accustomed to being fed over the fence. Feeding them wasn't going to happen because we only had enough muesli for our own breakfast but that didn't stop them coming to beg.
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Coby came over as we were finishing breakfast and we had another long natter. He's done no research on his route and is heading down to Victoria into the prevailing headwinds and shorter winter days. Sometimes it helps to be young and enthusiastic.
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We eventually started cycling after ten but stopped within a few hundred meters to take in the Big Pumpkin and the Big (slice of) Watermelon.
After that it was forty kilometers of the busy Bruce with a few birding stops along the way. Home Hill is once again sugarcane country and we saw the sugarcane railway in action for the first time transporting harvested cane.
Once checked in at the municipal campground it was a case of shower, laundry, lunch and grocery shopping.
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Supper was enjoyed chatting to four young French speaking guys from New Caledonia, Madagascar and France. Really enjoyable because they were well traveled and broad thinking. They are traveling and working, currently picking passion fruit.
We've booked a couple of nights at a backpacker place on Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville starting Friday so we'll make our way there over the next couple of days.
Today's ride: 42 km (26 miles)
Total: 4,001 km (2,485 miles)
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