35.64 ㎞ / 2:06:55 / 345 m / 13.0 ℃

Family duties over in Wheelers Hill so the plan was to ride over there for the 10㏂ start then later go off for an extra ride. I’d intended to ride via Scotchmans Creek Trail and Dandenong Creek Trail, but time intruded so it was straight down Wellington Road – although I did serendipitously find a vacant block that allows a shortcut into the suburb

On leaving, and with a tummy full of soup, a leisurely ride up the creek to Jells Park and a meander around the ponds – dodging, of course, the dogs brought illegally into the nature reserve. Plenty of birdlife to be seen, Black swans and pelicans, swamphens and coots, ducks and the raucously loud Ibis colony. I even met a mob of kangaroos that had moved up to near one of the picnic areas from the scrub, they stood and watched me watching them until a loud woman with a dog approached, and at her yelling into her phone “Fuck! There’s a shit-ton of kangaroos here!” unsurprisingly they bolted back into the safety of the trees

Then a cold and slow ride up through the suburbs to home, half-heartedly and unsuccessfully looking for a Sunday afternoon coffee

Mainly clear, 11°C, Feels like 8°C, Humidity 78%, Wind 5m/s from NW - by Klimat