Rosedale to Stratford

April 20, 2024

After yesterday exhausting ride I started the day with a bakery coffee plus egg and bacon roll. Yum!

It's a blue sky day!! Yay, first I've had this trip.

Blue sky and Angus beef cows. I think that's Hazelwood power plant on the left.

The ride to Cowwarr is pleasant, mixture of gravel roads and single lane sealed roads.

Local farmers art work in their front yard. Cute!

I attempted some landscape photography, just because, well the landscape was so inspiring. Enjoy!

More photos today because I'm not stressed about getting to my destination.

There are no coffee shops in Cowwarr but I can hear a Saturday footy game is in progress. I made use of a bus stop with a nice bench seat for an apple break.

One of the houses has some cute cows, seems to be a bit of theme in these parts.

Cow with roses. Merry Widow is a local catering company.

This is were I join the Gippsland Plans Rail Trail.

There are some nice bridges and places were a bridge once stood but the trail goes around, over the road and back up.

Can you see the old bridge parts up there?

They left the rails in the road. Love it.

Favourite photo for the day, I've changing my journal photo to this one.

I found my coffee at Hayfield. An interesting setup. A semipermanent van next to a fully automatic diesel only fuel station.

I chatted to a couple of local ladies while we drank coffee, oh ok I also had a locally made biscuit.

Here is a missed opportunity. Make electric car charging station dual purpose and add a e-bike charging option.

Electric car charging station. Where do I charge my e-bike?

Back onto the trail. Next stop Maffra and afternoon tea at the local park. I don't tend to stop for lunch, smaller breaks are my preference.

Beautiful park and lots of nature play for the kids.

Final stop for the day is Stratford. The River side caravan park is lovely but missing a very important part, a fridge in the camp kitchen. Apparently the people are new here, second day. Steve a cyclist, who I met briefly at Hayfield kindly offers to put my milk and yoghurt in his caravan fridge. Problem solved. Thanks Steve and Leanne.

Chips and Bundaberg Creaming Soda while I write my journal. Cheers 😎

Today's ride: 66 km (41 miles)
Total: 567 km (352 miles)

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