45.01㎞ / 2:22:42 / 640m / 17.0℃
Lorne to Aireys Inlet and back along the Great Ocean Road, but the interesting bit was the exploratory loop at the Aireys / Moggs Creek end. Inland along the Old Coach Road then up Gentle Annie Track until I reached the single track turn off to Painkalac Reservoir. The Old Coach Road is badly corrugated due to too much traffic traveling too fast on the dirt, and one stand out reminder of this was the destroyed car wrapped around a tree … and wrapped in police tape … where someone had failed to stay on the road around a bend and driven straight into a big old gum tree
One steep walking section on Gentle Annie Track, once I’d got off the surface was too loose and sandy to get any sort of traction to start riding again, so I had to push the bike to the top, then turn off towards the reservoir. On the way down the track I passed a surprising number of families walking, of course being Australian one of them had decided to bring their dog into the National Park. Once at the reservoir I checked back old rides and found that I’d last been there in 2021, but almost exactly to the day – it was four years ago !
Across the dam and head around towards the Bambra Road, then some more enjoyable single track through the bush down to Distillery Creek picnic ground. From there it was mostly dirt roads gently down hill and down stream back into Aireys Inlet, and home along the GOR … pausing for an all important coffee and pastry at the Fairhaven SLSC
Overcast clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 58%, Wind 4m/s from S - by Klimat
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