9 June 2025
We enjoyed a week in Victoria filled with trail runs and mountain bike rides followed by a short break at home before heading to Brisbane for the Broadbeach Blues Festival. We are now down on the south coast enjoying rain, wind and the cold, perfect camping weather. It is winter after all.
The rides in Victorian included a landscaped mountain bike trail named the Indigo Epic Trail. It was steep and narrow and about 30kms long. We followed this with a Rail Trail return ride back to Beechworth. The good thing about rail trails is that they are built on old railway foundations, built for steam trains. This means the incline is never too steep. The inclines might be long but never ‘get off your bike and walk’ steep.
We also rode gravel trails. This seems to be the new challenge for trail riding. The gravel trails are typically gravel roads, forestry roads and fire trails. They are wide and can be ‘get off and walk’ steep. Great fun when you are on the down side of the hill. You do have to watch out for rocks and ruts that might interrupt your enjoyment.
All of these rides were rewarded with a stop at the Beechworth brewery. Pizza and beer tastes so good after a day in the saddle.
Our next trip is covered in the following instalment of my travel logs.
A Traveller's Tale 
Am I correct in thinking Ovens was an early explorer?
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It was named by Hume and Hovell after a chap, a major in fact who stayed home in Sydney. Seems Ovens wasn’t the exploring type.
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“Pizza and beer tastes so good after a day in the saddle.” – words of wisdom
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The Beechworth Brewery has a particularly excellent range of beers and their pizzas are very good. 😀
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Next time we are in the area (hmmm) we will give them a try.
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You wont be disappointed 😀
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