18.10.2002
to Cowes, Stony Point, Dromana
motorcycle San Remo
Many bikes on the road, really since Wednesday (today is Friday, Sunday is the motorcycle GP at Phillip Island). I stop in San Remo for lunch. Bikes, bikes, bikes.
Atrocious headwind - 10 km/h is all i can manage at times. Yet the wind is strangely warm, so not as loathsome and 'Victorian' as it has been. Not a long ride, but still a long day and tiring.
Arrive Cowes around 3pm. Ferry at 5:25, if it's not cancelled due to rough seas. Time for wandering, ice-cream, coffee and a couple of photos of my bike with the 'other' bikes on the island.
Japanese guys videoing each other feeding seagulls which hang bent-winged, strung like a nursery mobile in the onshore breeze.
I get a bit concerned by the increasing strength of the wind as ferry time approaches. Eventually the ferry approaches too, though it takes 5 minutes to dock (and not safely) in the rough sea. Very bumpy ride to Stony Point follows.
Welcoming party with balloons and streamers and things-that-make-noise waiting for me on the pier.
That's it, really. Except for the bay ride bit.
Lovely, lovely bath ends the day.