Rail Trail - the journey continues

Today's start - Tiroiti bridge

Dry, yellow 'Central'

 

Me on another viaduct

 

Me about to go into a tunnel

Malcolm at Hyde - that's the pub/shop/everything (not a big place)

 

Hyde station - a couple of kms on - lots of old wagons...

...and a good lunch stop

Memorial to people killed in a trail crash in 1943

Me heading over the horizon

the end of the day's ride - bus in background

 

Today we woke to a clear day with not a cloud in the sky but by 8.00 there was no sky to be seen.  Thick grey clouds and drizzle - but we waited at Middlemarch till midday (heater on!) and were rewarded by a sunny clear afternoon - although the afternoon wind was blowing strongly.  This made it hard going on our longest day yet - 33kms.  Malcolm didn't find it so bad and he zoomed the last 16 kms getting back to the bus 1/2 hr before me.  Long enough to let some of the 33 degrees heat out!  What contrasts in the day - it was 5 degrees at 7.00 am.

The last bit of today's ride was fairly flat with long straights so not as interesting as some other parts of the trail.  We moved the bus back to Tiroiti (where we cycled from back down to Middlemarch) and tomorrow should take the car and bikes to Wedderburn and cycle the last bit of the trail.  This will be even longer than today.