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Perth to Adelaide

Day 40 - Cudlee Creek to Adelaide, The final day!!!
Distance travelled 35kms - (Grandtotal: 3,882kms)

Useful Resources
Cycling Nullarbor brochure
My observations re roadhouses
Useful info about the area across the Nullarbor
Lucky Bay ferry
Yesterday afternoon I cooked the remainder of my pasta. I am now free of pasta. Yeahhhh! For dinner I went up to the tavern and enjoyed a nice pub meal.

This morning I woke up to birds chirping. I'm going to miss my morning alarm clock. Feels surreal for this trip to be drawing to a close. I've been on the road for over five weeks, which is certainly the longest trip to date. Kind of excited that it is the final day. I've had such a blast, done/seen so many wonderful things and met so many great people. Now is time to enjoy my ride into glorious Adelaide.

Weather when I set off was a little overcast, but otherwise nice. Followed the gorge road until I could find a good route to the river and join the cycle path into the city. The gorge road is such a scenic ride on a bike. I can imagine there would be lots of cyclists coming out this way each weekend.

Lots of great stone cliffs in the gorge
About 15kms later I saw the bike path. The path follows the river all the way into Adelaide. Was great to be able to approach the city without seeing any cars. A couple of times I saw these buses on their own special track. Almost like a train, as the driver doesn't steer the vehicle, they go pretty fast. Interesting infrastructure. The rest of the ride was very quick and I was in the CBD by 9am.

A wanna be train?
A great way to come into the city via the river
Adelaide has a relatively small CBD compared to Sydney. So I had a walk through Rundle Mall. Whilst strolling through with the bike someone came over to say hi. Charles as been following my blog. I was so not expecting to be noticed once I got into town.

Oink, oink! Some pig art in Rundle Mall

Once I worked out where I was I headed to the YHA. The YHA is certainly big, but the staff are friendly. Checked in and did a big load of laundry. I then went looking for a busy coffee place. Found a place called the Coffee Branch which was pretty busy. Can see why, yummy coffee.

Later I visited the South Australia Museum. They have a great section on aboriginal cultures in the area. Also another big plus was it was free. I then had a look next door at the art gallery.

In the afternoon I ate my way around Adelaide Central Markets. Full of tasty fruit, nuts, coffee and much, much more. After almost 6 weeks without a great selection of food I was certainly overwhelmed here. For the rest of the afternoon I had a look around the town. Certainly a nice city to walk around.

Some of the yummy food from the markets

It was really good getting into Adelaide early this morning, as it gave me a bit of time to enjoy the city. I also really liked the route I took to get into town. As it is certainly a great way of riding in away from the traffic.

Tomorrow I get to meet lovely wifey (big thanks for letting me enjoy such a trip) at the airport in Adelaide. Then we get to spend a wonderful long weekend going around the Barossa and Clare Valleys. I was going to arrange a hire car, but there has been a slight change of plan (see picture below). I hope you approve :-)

Our new transport for our weekend around the Barossa Valley


Thanks to everyone who followed my trek across from Perth. Over the next few weeks I'll be updating this blog with some more pictures, maps of where I have been and reflecting on some of the things I really loved. TJ is going to have a well earned rest.







Just tricking re the car!!!

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  • Tours around Oz
    • Adelaide to Melbourne
    • Back to Lithgow
    • Bairnsdale to Canberra
    • Cairns to Darwin
    • Melbourne to Sydney
    • Mittagong to Dungog
    • Mount Victoria and around to Sydney
    • Perth to Adelaide
    • Port Augusta to Uluru
    • Tasmania
  • Rides around Sydney
    • Akuna Bay, West Head & Manly
    • A ride through Royal National Park
    • Southern Highlands to Kiama
  • Japan 2017
  • The equipment
    • The bikes
    • The luggage
    • The kitchen
    • The tent & sleeping bits
    • Location shots
  • Resources & Contact