Day 3 - Rye to Anglesea

We were all up early for the short ride to the ferry at Sorrento. The departure time was 8 am and we needed to be at the ferry by about 7:30 am.

Packing up the Rye house, including cleaning of the sheets and towels was undertaken by Ian and myself whilst the others made there way to Sorrento. We also had to stay behind to sort out the pump on the house with a local plumber!!!! This was done in pretty quick time which allowed Ian and I to catch the 11 am ferry to Queenscliff. Boarding the ferry was quite simple however the ferry seemed quite full with cars and passenger traffic. The short one hour trip to Queenscliff was quite entertaining with many tour groups travelling to the BellarinePeninsula for golf and touring along the Great Ocean Road.

On arrival at Queenscliff we checked with the bike riders who had made good time and were at Torquay having lunch. They were happy to stay and wait for us to take the 40 minute road trip to meet them.

After having lunch it was great to begin the bike riding finally!

With fine weather and a coolish southerly breeze we toook off for the 20 km ride to Anglesea. This was along the coast much of which is part of the Cadel Evans Road race. It goes through the towns of Jan Juc and Bells Beach which renowned surfing areas.

The road and cycle paths were good and despite some busy traffic on the Great Ocean Road , the road shoulder was adequate.

We arrived at the caravan park at about 3.30 pm which was good timing to enable us to all have a shower and rest.

Steve Seymour is joining us later this afternoon after celebrating his father’s 94th birthday….congratulations to Fred! He was making his way from Melbourne via the train to Geelong and then riding to Anglesea. Be good to see Steve arriving safely.

Today was a good day to get out of the hustle and enjoy the scenery along the coast and have relaxed chats with the guys.

We are having dinner at the local pub tonight which should be fun.

The riders at the start of the day at Rye 

A ship on the Melbourne channel as we made our way on the ferry 

A view of the coast near Bells Beach

Home for the night in the caravan park…. Very comfortable 

My riding today…felt good to be back on the bike