Covid Blog 18

Today was a rest day from riding as I thought the wind would be up in the morning and I needed to pack for the trip back to Melbourne 

I awoke at about 7.00am and turned the tv on to brighter news about the number of Covid cases in Australia.... seems the measures that have been imposed by both state and federal government is really working and the infection rates are moving in the right direction. The big issue now is whether we ought to relax the current lockdown arrangements which are making life difficult from what we have become accustomed to for a long time.

The current thinking is that we should leave the lockdown arrangements in place to avoid a second rise in the infection rate. I am inclined to believe that the more conservative route is better to avoid a deeper problem.

After the review of the news and breakfast it was off to Blairgowrie for a coffee and look at the beach... lovely to be able to see the beach in the morning...

After returning home to Rye it was pack-up and clean-up time ahead of the trip home to Melbourne 

The plan was to pack the Ute with wood for the fire and get the gear in to the car... after the wood was loaded I was met with a flat tyre on the bike which involved a change of tube... wouldn’t you know it but the spare in the pouch was defective and luckily I had another spare to get the job done.... lucky I did not have a flat on the road or I would have been stuck!

The riding gods were shining on me for once... thanks!!!

I had a short break from packing duties to take a Zoom meeting with the Alkira folk. The whole world seems to be on Zoom for meetings now including many of the schools around Australia. Not sure whether our great national broadband network will handle all of this but it seems okay for now!

After a successful meeting and some “instant leftover “lunch I packed everything in the Ute for home and cleaned the house....

All very domesticated Peter!!!!

On the way home I picked up the bike for Nick which was being serviced by the Giant folk in Rosebud...they had a chuckle about the heritage of the bike which although having Giant decals is a fake!!

A new set of tyres, fixing of the gears and a general service makes a whole lot of difference to the riding on the fake bike

Driving home to Melbourne the roads were reasonably busy which was a surprise but I made good time to Nick and Catherine’s home in Camberwell.

Dropping off the bike was good as I could see Nicks family and see that Alice can now ride her bike without training wheels... a great effort for her!

After dropping the bike off it was home to Kenmare street to unpack the gear and stack the firewood 

Dinner was the normal Friday bbq with meat purchased from  the butcher in Rosebud 

It is good to be home and see the family after 4 days in isolation at Rye 

Although the wind did not get up the weather is starting to turn cooler as the winter weather patterns begin to arrive

Now for a couple of photos 

Early morning at the beach...

Bugger... a flat tyre needed changing!!!