With weather forecasts predicting storms and flooding for eastern Victoria, but not yet ready to return to reality, we decided to take a change of course – to transfer from tent to cabin and pick up our car so we can still continue exploring the local area without the combined risks of rain/traffic/roads. So a little sheepishly we set off for Fish Creek in driving rain, leaving all our panniers warm and dry in our tent.

Fortunately it was rail trail all the way, so we didn’t need to worry about visibility. However… we did need to negotiate the wet farm crossings where farmers move their cattle from one side of the trail to the other. Definitely the downside of being the stoker

Arrived in Fish Creek with the bike and us literally caked in mud. And starving, but too filthy and wet to show our faces in the local pub, so we picked up our car, turned the seat warmers on full and hot tailed it back to Toora. Now happily washed and nested in our cabin with the heating cranked up full, feeling only slightly guilty that we’ve ditched the tent.