Munda Biddi, here we come !
It has been around 12 months since my last reasonable ride, the Monaro Prologue, so it is time to hit the road again. Phil, a fellow Brisbane-ite I had met…
Aurora
Going to see the Aurora has been a bucket list item for years, as has the Rockies, with the peak in Solar Maximum around this year it was a perfect…
Stradbroke Island – A Short Paddle Away
One of my favourite trips, a weekend’s paddle to Stradbroke Island. Leaving from Jacob’s Well means it is pretty close and an easy, beautiful paddle. The water was calm, the…
Yatsugatake 2025
Inspired by a failed attempt at Iodake and Akadake in 2018 where I was forced off the mountain by bad weather. I was pretty nervous planning this trip, Japan had…
Cloudride Prologue 500km Gravel Race
The Cloudride Prologue is In summary, a good but very hard race - I scratched, wrongly, here's what happened and why for others information and so that I hopefully I…
Warburton Rail Trail
January in Aus means it is time for the annual pilgramige to Meblourne to watch the Australian Open. This time there was a little more on the agenda, I knew…
Gorgeous sunset colours
Western Australia – It’s a BIG place…
A couple of years ago a group of people I had known in Sydney, who were now spread all over Australia, decided it would be good to visit someone we…
Minyon Falls were pretty cool, a long way down
Minyon Falls, a few hot pools and some beaches
The end of some studies triggered a need for a short break away; Northern NSW fit the bill with lush rainforest, some hiking, great beaches, nice food and hot pools.…
The 2024 Audax Oppy, it was wet!
Yesterday, another year had rolled around so it was time for the Audax Flèche Opperman., an annual ride celebrating Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman. The 'Oppys' are unusual for Audax rides…
A big drop
Greenes Falls at Mount Glorious
While I have been away riding Tour Aotearoa M has been inside and has seen almost no nature for a month. The weather has been cool and drizzling, both making…
The Tour Aotearoa, 2024 Edition
I recently took part in my biggest, and most enjoyable, ride yet - riding the length of New Zealand with around five or six hundred others. the Tour Aoteroa, 2024…
Mount Barney from the bike.
I had been down Barney View Road a few years ago as part of an Audax ride, I've been wanting to go back; now that it's winter and not just…