Treadlies_ Victoria's North-Eastern RailTrails

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more to come....

 

[K1W1]

Same bridge different direction? Near Keotong?

 

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Same bridge different direction? Near Keotong?

Looks like the same.
Could be leftovers of a road-bridge (carpark just next to it) or a couple of ?water-tank platforms or such?

 

[K1W1]

I think it was a bridge across the rail line to a farm on the other side. You could see the old "road" on the other side although it does not show clearly in the photo. I parked the bike in the carpark and walked down to the main bridge further west.

 

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Some take aways after a week treadling Victoria's north-east RailTrails (and some other bits).


Trail souvenir

 

[K1W1]

Doubled the bicycle weight.

 

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Scenic Wodonga bypass (from Barnawartha), mostly sealed, steep single-lane!

Highlight #1

How I ever managed to keep missing a true gem (of the "serenity" kind) for decade after decade is beyond me.








The Upper Murray (-loop).
NOT a RailTrail.

Quiet, nearly too pretty to be real....and the Indi and Biggara bridges make for a very neat cruise along both sides of the Upper Murray River while bouncing across the NSW/ Vic border a few times along the way (as obvious by the roads width and quality ).

35k's (return loop ex B400 ) of hilly, undulating farmland with a dead-gorgeous pack of single-lane twisties (gasp!!) , a myriad of small lookout/ lunch spots, the free Indi Bridge Camp area on the bank of the Murray.
Took a lot of sweat and pushing up the steep sections, brake pads copped their first flame-out.

5 hours for us...but barely an hour of tootling along on a moto, all sealed. No Gmap streetview, no big signage....just solitary bliss in a fairytale landscape.


The "Young Murray"

The farm kids come out for a race....

Downhill, YEEHA!

Sorry you two "brownies"....we're not the guys with the matt-black rattle-can to make you part of the mob

 

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Side note:

The just-finished "camper-trailer" hung together perfectly, all worked out pretty well.

The tiny canvas-fart had the $200k-caravan/Ram1500 crowd in stitches, laughing tears watering the beer.


Come pack-up-time, they were still folding up chairs and tables before pulling down the awning ....as we were the first 80k's down the road.

 

[Williamson]

Much more civilised and comfortable than sleeping on the ground. I don't think that the good ole days were that good after all.

 

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Much more civilised and comfortable than sleeping on the ground. I don't think that the good ole days were that good after all.

It's rather the "getting the arse off the ground" over and over that takes an effort nowadays.