The weather said lots and lots of rain today. I woke up with my fingers crossed, and cooked the last two eggs instead of eating disgusting cereal. We sorted our stuff and hit the trail. The rain was nowhere to be seen, thankfully, so we really enjoyed our ride along the Rattler, to Riverton. What a neat town. Great old stone buildings, parks and history. We stopped near the museum and had a snack and our coffees.
The Rattler trail. Great surface, gentle gradients, and NO traffic.
Wheat on the left, vines on the right.
The Riesling and Rattler trails make up part of The Mawson. Great signposts.
Checking out the Mawson trail info board in Riverton.
Morning tea stop in Riverton, with the lovely stone buildings.
Get that coffee into ya Willsie, then we can hit the trail.
All we had to do now, was locate the Mawson trail. It was our lucky day, as I spotted the trail marker just out of town. We took the turn off the highway onto Old Main road. Here we go, getting my nice clean shoes dirty again. The trail took us along some farm roads, it was quite hilly, and the wind was trying hard to help us. Sometimes we changed direction, twisting around the bigger hills, and into the wind. It was pretty enjoyable.
Lovely restored old pub. Too early to stop, bummer!
Nice firm gravel roads on this bit of the Mawson.
Put the spinnaker up, we've turned with the wind at our backs....
The trail is very well sign posted, and there was a couple of places we decided to divert temporarily, as the trail turned to goat track, and went over some bigger hills. We chose to stay on the good gravel roads, with the wind at our backs. We came out to the Tarlee road, turned left and rode the last 10kms into Kapunda. Again some good long hills, but the scenery was changing slightly, with more trees but still farms for as far as you could see.
We came across this old SA Water Corp dam in the middle of nowhere.
Look at those kids just lazing around in the trees.
I love the things the farmers keep and use as ornaments.
Wow, trees! These are very rare in this region.
Not a big entry to this very historic town.
Originally, we'd planned to head to Nurioopta, 20 kays away, but with the impending rain getting pretty close, and our extended lunch break, we decided to see if they had a cabin at the caravan park. We are not camping when there is definitely going to be rain, and probably lots of it. Luckily, there was just one cabin left at the caravan park, they have a conference on and are booked. It's supposed to pour all day tomorrow, but we can't stay here, they are full. I guess we'll sleep with our fingers crossed again.
Lunch stop. It is getting dark and the rain is definitely coming.
Last cabin, we'll take it!
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