Cycle Sydney

Adelle I and 10,000 or so other punter did the Sydney spring cycle on the weekend.

It went well and despite having a gammy knee seemed easier than previous years. I also cycled home afterwards while Adelle got the train and despite taking it very easy at just over an hour to cycle home I still managed to beet Sydney's public transportation system quite easily.

Cape soleander

Managed to cycle from Marrickville to Cape Soleander and back on Saturday. Did not see any particularly interesting birds unfotunately but it was a reasonable ride none the less at just under 70 km. Which is next to nothing by Tour de France standards where most of the stages are nearly 200km long but it is a start and should help prepare us for the cycle Sydney which takes place on Sunday.

Barren Grounds

I went for a nice walk in the Barren Grounds Nature Reserve on the weekend. The park is very nice and rarely has an over-abundance of annoying tourists.



Also being spring the wild flowers were out.




I did the Griffiths trail and Kangaroo ridge walk which combine for a nice 20 km outing, but with wide grassy tracks where you only need to look down when snakes move from just in front of your feet it was a pleasant day out. That is if you don't count the 4 hours spent driving there and back.



Also to top it off I managed to flush 2 ground parrots (on the kangaroo ridge walk section) and got a photo of one, although it is a pretty poor photo as I lack the power of the bigma.