Rutherglen Adventure Day 5 Thursday 29 March 2012

Today was declared a familiarisation day and the rides were short and followed walking and cycling  trails around Corowa.  Corowa is a lovely lively town and is the starting point for all our rides which either cross the John Foord Bridge or the new Federation bridge in Victoria where Rutherglen is located.  See the following link for its interesting history  http://www.murrayriver.com.au/corowa/ .

I was lucky enough to attach myself to a group lead by a Bike Friday Club member Graham, who has lived in Rutherglen for many years and was the Principal of the Corowa High School for a long time.  We took several trails over the next four hours but only covered 30Km as we stopped numerous times while Graham pointed out areas of interest and related tales about the Corowa/ Rutherglen area.  It was a fun ride.

In the afternoon I had a rest, caught up with Wednesday's blog and had a beer with other riders  In the evening we had a barbecue and sat around to about 10.00pm talking Bike Fridays and weird and outstanding things they get up to.

There was one shadow on the proceedings as our founder, Margaret Day, and her husband, Graham, were not present.  Graham has cancer and is suffering from severe dementia.  He wont re able to attend future get togethers.  I was friends with Graham and Margaret in South Australia and rode with them regularly.  Margaret encouraged me to get back into cycling by buying on of her loved Bike Fridays.

Views of the River Murray around Corowa

 Margaret and Graham