2017 | Cycle Touring | Australia
Cycle Tour Australia
Sydney to Darwin by bike
5376
kilometres
23
Over 100km days
21
Zero days
30
Nights in my tent
81
Total days
Cycle Tour Australia in words
I thought transitioning from hiking to cycling would be easy. Here you can read about how wrong I was!
Sydney to Salisbury, the long way
It's all about the bike
Cycle Oz day 1 – Priscilla and I. Queens of the dessert
Cycle Oz day 2 – A mixed bag
Cycle Oz day 3 – Washout
Cycle Oz day 4 – All praise the weather gods
Cycle Oz day 5 – The weather gods are bastards
Cycle Oz day 6 – Rolling along
Cycle Oz day 7 – Crushed it
Cycle Oz day 8 – Hills are not my friend
Cycle Oz day 9 – Living to tell the tale
Cycle Oz day 10 – Hello Victoria
Cycle Oz day 11 – Bean bean are good for your heart
Cycle Oz day 12 – Getting off the highway
Cycle Oz day 13 – Claw hand
Cycle Oz day 14 – Are you taking the piss?
Cycle Oz days 15 & 16 – Priscilla gets a makeover
Cycle Oz day 17 – Winter solstice
Cycle Oz day 18 – Three reasons today was a good day
Cycle Oz day 19 – The great southern rail trail
Cycle Oz days 20 & 21 – 10 things I've learnt about cycle touring
Cycle Oz day 22 – Rainy days and Mondays...
Cycle Oz day 23 – Made it to Melbourne!
Cycle Oz days 24 & 25 – Melbourne
Cycle Oz day 26 – A bit of British class
Cycle Oz day 27 – Are you going round the twist?
Cycle Oz day 28 – The great ocean road?
Cycle Oz day 29 – Roads, rain and lumps of rock
Cycle Oz day 30 – Whale watching in warrnambool
Cycle Oz day 31 – Back on the Princes highway
Cycle Oz day 32 – South Straya
Cycle Oz day 33 – The boneshaker
Cycle Oz days 34 & 35 – More rain & a big lobster
Cycle Oz day 36 – 2000 kilometre slump
Cycle Oz day 37 – An easy 100k
Cycle Oz day 38 – Ups and downs
Cycle Oz days 39-44 – Radelaide
Cycle Oz day 45 – On the road again
Cycle Oz day 46 – Headwinds are not cool
Cycle Oz day 47 – The end of the Princes highway
Cycle Oz day 48 – The start of the Stuart Highway
Cycle Oz day 49 – Spud's roadhouse
Cycle Oz day 50 – Go West, where the skies are blue
Cycle Oz day 51 – 3000km!
Cycle Oz day 52 – Puncture
Cycle Oz day 53 – White man in a hole
Cycle Oz day 54 – Hot, dry and windy
Cycle Oz day 55 – Peloton
Cycle Oz day 56 – Water
Cycle Oz day 57 – Welcome to the Northern Territory
Cycle Oz day 58 – I spoke too soon
Cycle Oz day 59 – Alice Springs
Cycle Oz days 60-65 – Uluru, Kings Canyon and other big rocks
Cycle Oz day 66 – The tropics
Cycle Oz day 67 – 4000km
Cycle Oz day 68 – Too hot!
Cycle Oz day 69 – Aliens and Devils
Cycle Oz day 70 – Oh my god the flies!
Cycle Oz day 71 – The Grey Nomads
Cycle Oz day 72 – On the strugglebus
Cycle Oz day 73 – The heat though
Cycle Oz day 74 – Tourist trap
Cycle Oz day 75 – Have I mentioned the heat?
Cycle Oz day 76 – Cycle a bit, float a bit
Cycle Oz day 77 – Eating the miles for breakfast
Cycle Oz day 78 – Edith Falls
Cycle Oz day 79 – Sour mangos
Cycle Oz day 80 – So close!
Cycle Oz day 81 – Darwin!
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