Fantastic ride heading south from Melrose. Diverse land use: sheep, wheat, vines etc. Undulating but nothing too steep, and practically no traffic.
After a while the trail headed into Wirrabara forest - a mix of pines and remnant native forest. Good tracks but still a bit soft from the last of the rain yesterday. Am glad I wasn't here 24 hours earlier. Stopped to brew up a coffee on the veranda of the empty Wirrabara YHA hut.
Dropped out of the forest on a rough muddy track, perfectly timed for lunch at the Stone Hut bakery (had to detour off the trail for a couple of kilometers for this - well worth it). As I arrived, all of the bakery staff were out the back persuading a brown snake to come out of the toilet. A few minutes later a lady came out with the now headless snake draped over the end of a rake. Snake pie anyone?
Had a good chat with a couple who were staying in Clare, and had driven up for lunch. He raced pushies in the veterans club each Sunday at Outer Harbour so was pretty interested in what I was doing. But I had to drag myself away from them because I could feel a change in the weather coming - as forecast - that was about to turn my strong tailwind into a stronger headwind. So I pushed off out of Stone Hut for a quick blast to Laura and booked into a very good cabin in the caravan park.
I had been having a bit of trouble with an ear ache after something crawled into my ear a few nights ago in my tent. As I rolled into Laura I spotted a local hospital...come back at 6:15 to see the doc they said. So in the meantime I had a wander about the place. Nice town with some good old buildings and a well cared for feel in the place. The verdict at 6:15: not infected, irritation should go away by itself. A relief because the last thing I wanted was to bail out on the trip due to illness.
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