{"id":54,"date":"2007-03-14T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-08-30T06:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T11:38:49","slug":"great-ocean-road-day-4-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"GOR – Day 4: GR SOUTHERN OCEAN (K to Beachport, SA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a *great* day – for me anyway. <\/p>\n

A 96k day, of which I rode 65 (40+ miles), average speed 13.2mph. For the first time this tour we got a chilly early morning start, and were rewarded with a tailwind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a cyclist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best friend. \"beach<\/a>This was Irena’s longest ride ever – she hopped on about 1\/3 of the way through our 90k (58 miles?), while Patricia drove. We took a lunch stop in the delightful and really lovely tourist town of Robe, right on the ocean at a beautiful sweeping inlet point, with towering Norfolk Island pines everywhere along the shoreline. Then I FINALLY got my first crack at driving on the left-hand side of the road. It only took me 15 minutes to figure out how to get the truck\/jeep (manual shift) in reverse , and after that I had no problems (we have been here now over 3 weeks, so it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem so strange any more).<\/p>\n

I drove on into Beachport, a small, sleepy, seaside town that straddles a cape point out into the ocean. After finding our lodgings, I parked the car and headed back along a lovely beach toward the other 3 riders, and met up with them after only about 7 miles. It was a*very* hot day, though, so we hung around, posing on the beach! Our cabin, high on the hill with a great ocean view and nice breeze, was so welcome.\"Beachport<\/a><\/p>\n

We took an evening drive around the peninsula and saw fantastic ocean views; unfortunately, Irena got sick (too much heat), and had a rough time for a bit. Our total distance so far including Adelaide is about 270 miles, and I have ridden 225 of it \ud83d\ude42<\/grins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a *great* day – for me anyway. A 96k day, of which I rode 65 (40+ miles), average speed 13.2mph. For the first time this tour we got a chilly early morning start, and were rewarded with a tailwind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a cyclist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best friend. This was Irena’s longest ride ever – she hopped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-2007","category-cycling","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}