Betten On Bike: DAY 121 - 8TH AUGUST 2013

Day 121 – 8 August 2013 – Casino to Kyogle

Cycling Stats: 35 kms

Cycling Average: km per hour – Walter said don’t worry about it so I won’t….

Change of plan – We took a walk down to Casino last night and had dinner and Walter said he would rather leave tomorrow and cycle the short distance to Kyogle.

When I asked him how the ride went Walter said he enjoyed a lovely leisurely ride through predominantly the flat countryside.

On this short journey to Kyogle we travelled along a nicely named road called Summerland Way. This provides a nice lead for me to mention some of the more interesting and memorable names of some of the places we visited during our 4 month around Australia trip. In no particular order I find these most noteworthy:

‘Useless Loop’ – a road in the mining town of Tom Price in WA (apparently it is aptly named)

‘Nameless Mountain’ – also in Tom Price

‘The Angry Lost Sock’ – a laundry in Harvey in The Margaret River (one of my favourites)

‘Ticklebelly Hill’ in Cleve

‘Tingle All Over Motel’ – in southern WA and a reference to the enormous Tingle Tree which grows here and nowhere else in the world

‘Lunatic Motel’ - in Drake New South Wales

We arrived here in Kyogle and it is a pleasant town flanked by mountains and we settled into The Showgrounds camping ground. It will be busy here over the weekend as there is a big event on – The Border Ranges Rally – ‘A rally for Classics and modern AWDs’. Tomorrow night there will be cars and we will see some action because according to the flyer ‘crews compete head to head around the oval’ at the Showgrounds so a bit of action to look forward to. We are experiencing some quite gusty westerly winds here and hopefully this will die down as the tent room is being blown about something fierce.

We met the manager of The Kyogle Visitors Centre, Malcolm, a very friendly man and he offered Walter an opportunity to take the microphone tomorrow evening to talk about our trip to the Rally crews & spectators, which could assist our fundraising. Malcolm also organized for Walter to make contact with ABC Radio and I spoke to an ABC staff member this afternoon and Walter will also most likely do a radio interview tomorrow morning. So a lovely way to get the word out for the last few days of our trip.