8.17km / 27:46 / 52m / 16.0°C

One of Bicycle Network’s annual bike counts, the “Super Sunday” count in late spring is looking at mostly recreational uses of the shared paths, the Tuesday one earlier in the year is around commuters. I couldn’t get the spot on the Djerring Trail near our house – they get grabbed up within an hour of being open to volunteers – so I picked the east end of Huntingdale wetlands. The ride was there and back, but with three hours of counting people in the middle

The weather over the past day has been bad so I had my fingers crossed, and took wet weather gear, an umbrella, and plastic bags for the survey sheet, luckily it stayed mostly fine and only misted on me for five or ten minutes around 11 o’clock

Short ride over there through Oakleigh and along the Scotchmans Creek Trail, then three hours counting; cyclists, e-bikes, walkers, runners, dog-walkers, e-scooters, “other”. I had no “other” and I had no e-scooters, but I did have people come in on one path, turn around and go back out the same way – an option that the tick sheet does not allow for!

An interesting enough way to spend a Sunday morning, surprisingly chaotic at times when multiple sets of people all arrive from different directions at once, take some time to cross through the Stanley Street area, then depart in their chosen directions

Overcast clouds, 12°C, Feels like 12°C, Humidity 86%, Wind 2m/s from E - by Klimat