26th February A restful day in Robe

After moving on every day for a good while now this is an ideal opportunity to catch up with washing and just having a rest. It also gives us time for a calm adjustment for our next holiday phase. Tony, with the help of nearby campers, managed to sort of splint the broken spoke with a wire fence tensioner thing bought from the local hardware store. (You can really tell that Catherine is writing this due to the terminology) See photos. We don't really trust it to do serious cycling but we may be able to get about locally ok when we get to Adelaide tomorrow by bus. Tested the wheel on a 5 km trip around Robe and all successful on its initial test. We are not planning to bother with a full repair here in Aus As the spoke broke in the middle (rather unusual) and it's on the rear wheel gear side and we would rather get the whole wheel respoked when we get home. So we are about done with 2000km completed on our Bromptons with full camping gear we don't think that's too bad and on 53 days completed of our trip, it's now time for more rest and a slower pace.
Despite it being our rest day we could not resist a morning cycle around the headlands.Actually if we had only called in here for a mid day break we would have missed some really good coastal scenery.