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NE Vic Rail Trail - Bright (09 to 11-Mar-21)

Highly recommended by my mate, Kevin Ellwood, we are doing a cycle tour of NE Victoria; our first since 2019. The tour consists of 6 stages of varying distances starting in Bright - Mount Beauty - Yackandandah - Wodonga - Wangaratta - Beechworth ending back in Bright where we will meet up with our friends, Bruce and Rosemary from Melbourne. To view more phots of this blog, click on this link https://photos.app.goo.gl/B7hkcHq96sYKSaTG6 in the 3 bars on the top right right.

Day 1 - Bright

Got into Bright around 2pm after a long shared drive from Sydney. Greeted by a beautiful day and a warm welcome from our host in a centrally located motel. After a tour of the town and buying the necessary groceries we went for a (quite steep) walk to Higgins Lookout to get an aerial view of Bright and surrounding region with some trees already in beautiful autumn colours.





Day 2 Bright

After a leisurely breakfast, which included catching up on emails, news and current affairs, it was time for some exercise . After an hour or so of walking along the mighty Ovens River (more like a creek but the locals call it the mighty river), 




we came to a Rail Trail (a shared bicycle and pedestrian path) which brought us back into town. Much to our delight we sighted a couple of black cockatoos showing off on top of couple of trees.



After a quick change of clothing into our bicycle gear, we were off to Wandiligong on lovely shared bike/walking paths (Wandi for short). There we came across a couple of local characters who shared the town’s history. 




Day 3

A happy start of my day as I watched live my beloved Liverpool finally win a game in the European Champions League against Leipzig. Happy days! Then we were off to Mount Buffalo with good intentions of spending the day there but only got as far as 1350 meters up the mountain as the weather was closing in. Couldn't believe the number of cyclists of both genders doing the climb, something we will be doing tomorrow on stage 1 of our tour. The views from up there would have been spectacular on a sunny day.



Not feeling well, had a bit of a nap before going on a 5km walk along the mighty Ovens River; this time in the other direction. At the furthest point of our walk, we got rained on as you do. Back to the hotel to start packing for the start of tomorrow's tour. Easy dinner, BBQ chicken, bread rolls and avocado of course.


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