Bike SA Annual Tour - Day 6

Vivonne Bay to Kingscote - 25th October 2013

A somewhat rude awakening this morning. Unfortunately my cold hadn't got any better, and as an unfortunate side effect, I was snoring like there was no tomorrow. Miss V described it as "spectacular". I'm not sure that's a good thing. Up shot of this was that we were awoken a couple of times during by a fellow camper throwing shoes at our tent and then (apparently) standing outside our yelling at us. Seriously..  grow the fuck up and have your tantrum elsewhere. Maybe she could have used her earplugs that are on the suggested packing list? Anyway, we tried not to let one idiot ruin our day before it started!

The route for today was entirely on sealed roads, with no unsealed options. Pretty much a straight run from Vivonne Bay to the commercial centre of the island, Kingscote. There were a couple of places along the way that seemed worthy of a stop though, which we planned to take advantage of.

Our first stop was at Raptor Domain, which was also doubling as our morning tea stop. It was here that we also bid farewell to Rory from Let There Be Coffee, who was our awesome mobile coffee provider for the week. At Raptor Domain we were able to pat a six week old wedge tailed eagle which was very very cool.. and soft.. and fluffy :)   It was amazing to think that a bird that would easily measure two hand widths across its back was only six weeks old. She was already massive!

Only six weeks old! 

Our second stop was at KI Spirits where we tried a few of their delicious spirits. So delicious that we left with a bottle of Lime and Ginger Liqueur.  Our third stop was at Island Beehive where we sampled some of their produce. Once again, finding it delicious we walked out with three bottles of honey in our backpacks.

Look out Miss V! A giant Bee!

A short ride up the hill and we had arrived at our camp site for the evening. Lots of room for all of us. Despite this, Miss V (rightly) warned anyone that looked to be thinking about pitching their tent near us about my spectacular snoring efforts. In every case, they didn't care, but I guess they couldn't complain about not being warned.

Tent up, we went into the town centre to obtain cold and flu drugs and then later on to watch the pelicans being fed. For only five dollars, this is a great show, with lots of information about pelicans and seagulls. The guy presenting it is a laugh too. Highly recommended.

Tonight was to be our last dinner together as a group, so there was a band and a slide show from the previous days. Dinner was Roast Lamb and Roast Pork with gravy and an assortment of vegetables on the side. One new learning from this evening is that you can (apparently) reserve an entire ten seater table simply by leaving a single piece of clothing on the end of a table. Good to know. Thus endeth the sarcasm.

Camp Site at Kingscote

We were warned during the rider briefing that there were fairly strict time limitations on getting to Penneshaw tomorrow. Even though we figured that we could do it easily we set our alarm a bit earlier just to be sure. Everything packed and waiting, we headed off to bed in preparation to start our last day tomorrow.

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