Tour Day 6 - 18 October 2011 - A boat ride with a short bike ride at the end.

We packed up camp early on Tuesday morning as all our gear was being taken to Goolwa for our next camp site.  There were several ride groups for the day. The fast (also mad) were riding 130Km to Goolwa and set off early.   Another group took a bus with their bikes on a trailer behind to meet up with the mad ones and ride 50Km to Goolwa.  The rest of us were split into two groups. The first left on a bus to catch the boat a 7.00am with their bicycles going of on a truck to Hindmarsh Island to meet them after the cruise.  The rest, including me, had to hang around until 11.00am for our bus and we had to leave our bikes behind.

We arrived at the  departure point for the cruise to find that the boat had not arrived and the bus left us there.  There were sixty of us with no bikes or other transport in the middle of nowhere.  After about 20 minutes the two boats arrived and we commenced our cruise of the Coorong (see http://www.thecoorong.com/ ) During the cruise we were3 given a great lunch and the Captain gave us a running comm entry on the topography and wild life.  We took a forty five minute walk to the Southern Ocean and the boat took us to the Murray Mouth and the barrages (see http://www.murrayriver.com.au/river-towns/barrages/ ).

At the end of the cruise we were left on Hindmarsh Island but our bikes hadn't arrived yet and we had to wait a few minutes for them.  The it was a short thirteen kilometre ride over the imfamous Hindmarsh Bridge to our camp site in Goolwa. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindmarsh_Island_Royal_Commission

We had good dinner and settled in for a three night stay.

 Where are our bikes?

 The boats arrive

 Exploring