Almost the City

On our third bike excursion we ambitiously intended to reach the city. This time instead of biking along the Ring Road bike track we took the path under the freeway, following the biking map that Kelli had loaned us. Kelli had also loaned her bike for Peter to ride, because our old bike had reached its use by date.

The map was invaluable even though it misled us once or twice. Some of the tracks in the map were hardly bike tracks in reality! We were persistent though. The romance of reaching the highly popular city bike tracks drove us forward.

Peter suggested we follow the Yarra River once we joined it. It seemed a good idea at the time but soon proved to dangerous to ride. The pictures show the state of this track before we decided to retrace our steps and take the map's recommended route. We would have been trapped on it for hours on it if we had persisted.

We eventually arrived at the Studly Park Boat House and had our obligatorily coffee at such a place. It was nice to sit under the trees by the river with the odd boat rowing past. We had a meat pie each as our 'late' lunch.

We had taken three and a half hours to reach this spot and we realised that we should cut our excursion to the city short and conclude it at Collingwood (Victoria Park Station) and return by train. The city would have to wait. It had been a good ride and we need not overdo it. There will be many other chances, God willing.