GVBR Day 5

Rest day tomorrow and you can feel it in the air - everyone heading out keenly to get to Bendigo and do the washing or get to the motel they have booked or just get there.   Again a roundabout route to get us in through back roads, and to make sure that we don't take the shortest route.
We have been tipped off about the Bridgewater Bakehouse not very far along the route so that's the first stop. Pizza for breakfast with good coffee.

Then along a long flat closed road where several riders stretch out and go for it.  Sadly we passed a rider who had come down, a reminder that you need to keep your wits about you at all times with so many on the road together. Again the laps tell the story, slowing down as the wind turned to face us throughout the day.  The last part was hardest, until we turned into the OD (overdimension) route into town via Eaglehawk. Some lovely rollers protected by the houses a bit.

The destination is a welcome sight and we have given our number tags to Ian, who always arrives hours ahead of us, to pick out a couple of tents for us and he does well.  We have adjacent tents with two side windows each.  The big advantage there is tying up the window awnings to the next tent to create air and shade simultaneously.  There's a tip for all the future sleep easy Great Vic riders.
Lauren and I are in a tent each for a couple of days as Lesley has booked herself into a motel for the next couple of nights so now we talk to each other through the awning canopies.  We also take our washing into the machine at Lesley's motel - it is always who you know.

Areeba areeba - encouraging?