Day 14 donnybrook to lake wellington

Lots of tarmac for the first 20km today , then dirt roads and last 10 km was track. Some nasty hills hills through the ferguson valley but got thru them okay. Feel close to home now having just crossed pile road and into familiar territory near the pile road mountain bike track. Just a short ride from honeymoon pool. A few went for a spin down to honeymoon pool and a swim but the ride back was uphill. Pitched wet tents that dried with the afternoon sun and now all snug for another night in the wild at the hut. I had another puncture today but it resealed itself thanks to the goo i use, but had to add a bit of air. Dave also had a flat. Phil lost his rear suspension pinion on his scott so we had another mercy call to collie for repairs , Eric has been great at crankin cycles. I think there are quite a few bikes booked in for a service on monday during our rest day there.

Out in the wild doing it tough again tonight. Oh the beer and wine has just arrived. But I didnt hear it over the generator . Ahh the serenity!

The camp cook couldnt get very close to us today as the hut is in the bush and down some steep slopes so the meal was precooked at the top and delived down to us we were all starving by the time it arrived and there was feeding frenzy but the hunger pains were well satisfied.

The camp site was a bit of a squeeze and tents were pitched all over and in the bush. The temperature dropped to less than 10 degrees all of a sudden we know this because captain gadget produced a temperature gauge from somewhere showing both inside and outside temperature. We couldnt quite work out what was considered as Inside temperature because everything seemed to be outside. There were a few suggestions where the probe could go to measure inside temperature but we left that alone. Most skipped off to bed to snuggle up in their sleeping bags and read while a fews others finished off a bottle of red over a pack of cards. There are a lot of cards in this group thats for sure.

Tough climb into collie so i'm putting my head down. Week 3 of the tour de munda biddi about to commence.