6 March 2012 - Back on the bike

It was a cold night, more of the unseasonal cold weather. Today I headed out and cycled up the Gippsland Discovery Trail, which joins up with the East Gippsland Rail trail.

The Discovery trail follows an old tram line, used in the early 1900's to bring granite from a quarry about 15km inland down to the coast. The granite was used to shore up the entrance to Lakes Entrance as the wooden pylons were getting eating by worms. One of the highlights of the rail trail the Stony Creek trestle bridge near Nowa Nowa. The bridge is 276m long and 19m high and quite impressive, particularly given it was built in the 1800's.

I met up with Clare and the kids at the bridge. We spotted our first snake of the trip, sunning itself next to the trail. I rode the 3km from the bridge into Nowa Nowa, and we had lunch down beside Lake Tyers.

In the afternoon we headed to Tyers beach and had fun collecting pippis. There were thousands of them on the beach but none of legal size, so we had to throw them all back, much to Emily's disgust.