A collection of long distance ride reports by Melvyn Yap
April 27th, 2011 Mount Gambier to Beachport Distance: 100km Total distance: 2030km After an awesome rest day at Mount Gambier, today I’m all set to bush camp at Beachport Conversation Park! I left the town fairly late at 8:45am. Wanted to leave earlier but the dew on my tent took up 30 mins of my […]
Continue ReadingApril 28th, 2011 Beachport to Kingston SE Distance: 103km Total distance: 2133km Woke up this morning to find that there was no dew on my tent. It was completely dry! Today I planned on riding to Kingston SE, so it’ll be another 100km ride, and weather forecasted north-easterly wind. I’m heading north-west and north some […]
Continue ReadingApril 29th, 2011 Kingston SE to 42 Mile Crossing Distance: 74km Total distance: 2207km Left pretty late this morning at 10am! Probably because I knew I was only going to do a 70km+ journey today so I just took my time getting ready. By the time I woke up, the sun was already high in […]
Continue ReadingApril 30th, 2011 42 Mile Crossing to Meningie Distance: 87km Total distance: 2294km Last night, I got the fright of my life a couple of times by the roos stomping. This morning, a small mouse crawls over the top of my tent. I could tell it’s a mouse judging from the depression made by the […]
Continue ReadingMay 1st, 2011 Meningie to Strathalbyn Distance: 104km Total distance: 2398km It was still raining when I woke up. Spent my morning checking on few sources of forecast on TV and online, all predicted its going to be raining all day. I had an internal debate on whether I should stay for another night at […]
Continue ReadingMay 2nd, 2011 Strathalbyn to Adelaide Distance: 72km Total distance: 2470km Only 70km to ride today but I have a feeling it’ll take a long time. Adelaide Hills will be the reason why. But on the bright side, the weather this morning looks promising. Looked like the rain has stopped for good. The road out […]
Continue ReadingMay 8th, 2011 Adelaide Distance: 33km Total distance: 2503km My supposedly 5 rest days becomes 6 when I found out yesterday that there’s gonna be showers later today. Although the sky was cloudy, there was no shower at all today. Sigh. Well, I miss my weekend to exit Adelaide, this means tomorrow I must ride […]
Continue ReadingMay 9th, 2011 Adelaide to Riverton Distance: 112km Total distance: 2615km Didn’t get much sleep last night, but at least manage to sleep for about 4 hours. Better than my other pre-tour nights! Started pedaling at about 6.40am after saying goodbye to MK. Riding out of Adelaide wasn’t as bad as I thought. For most […]
Continue ReadingMay 10th, 2011 Riverton to Clare Distance: 55km Total distance: 2670km A mouse spent the entire night resting between the floor of my tent and the lawn. What the heck? I only discovered this in the morning when I try to locate the source of the scratching sound. Saw something moving underneath the my tent […]
Continue ReadingMay 11th, 2011 Clare to Melrose Distance: 140km Total distance: 2810km Not going to have a rest day afterall and I’m glad I didn’t, as I had a couple of interesting encounters on the road. Woke up to a sky full of rain clouds. After a brief chat with Scott, a neighbour camper who invited […]
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