Cycling around the eastern half of Australia
A dream and adventure all in one. Almost 5500 miles around the Eastern-half of the vast red continent evading the normality of everyday life for six months and concentrating solely on the "basics of life".
This Travel-CD tells the story of their daily toils and shared experiences underway, be it the extreme heat or huge distances between points. Enjoy the reports of people and places they meet along their chosen route, which takes them from Sydney heading north up the beautiful and very tropical "Goldcoast" to Townsville. After a wonderful and highly interesting snorkeling tour of the Great Barrier Reef, the route now turns inland through the barren, desolate and vastly uninhabited "Outback" regions of the big Red Center. Mt. Isa, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs and of course Ayers Rock are just some of the highlights underway.
Read how the authors catch the "Opal mining fever" in the dusty, rough and ready township of Coober Pedy in South Australia before reaching the southern coastline near Adelaide. Now, following the "Great Ocean Road", its all whale watching, sea-stacks and pounding surf until reaching their end destination in busy Melbourne.
Detailed diary reports and hundreds of specific photos give you an explicit insight into the daily challenge, as well as the ups and downs of such a unique bicycle tour. Whether, you actually intend cycling such a mega-tour or not, this product offers not only all the needed background info but also great reading entertainment.
Cycling across the top half allows you to now start realising just how vast and desolate the inner regions of this continent actually are! Distances are indeed of other dimensions here, however with a little determination and durance still good to cycle though.
Seemingly endless! The Flinders Highway in northern Queensland. Yet another two and a half cycling days until our next shopping possibility!
What a great feeling of triumph it is to reach the center by way of bicycle. The rugged, hilly southern coastline is indeed a treat after cycling through so much dry and dusty Outback!
"Uluru", better known as Ayers Rock in the heart of the vast Red Center. The "Great Ocean Road" offers spectacular cliff scenery on the last section of the route before reaching busy Melbourne.
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