On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:16 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: > I looked at the photos before I read the text. As I looked at them I thought, > "Nice ride, no hills."
I did think about going up the Mt John access road... would have been a punishing climb but it looked like the descent would have been scary bordering on dangerous. I'm glad I got to ride the canals... the first canal section was closed for repairs and the weather wasn't looking good early in the morning, so I thought I may have to use my backup plan. That was to spend 2 hours doing laps along the side road that goes to Lake Alexandrina, so if the weather did go bad I wouldn't be too far out. But the dark clouds dissipated and it warmed up a little so I went ahead with plan A. > Don't much like climbing. Only do it so I can get to the descent. :-) I love climbing. One of my favourite routes here has about 1,000 metres worth spread across two largish climbs and some rolling hills. I should take some photos next time I do it as the views are pretty good. But I also feel privileged that our city was built on flat land which makes for easy commuting. It's nice to be able to choose my terrain for a ride. > Very nice photos. Really does look like a lovely ride. Thanks... I'd have liked to stop on the highway a couple of times as that was pretty scenic as well. We were a couple of weeks too early to catch the lupins at their best, but what was there was very nice. I must get around to processing the rest of my photos from the trip. Don't think I mentioned that I punctured at the halfway point just as I was leaving to go back. Normally I'd be annoyed but I figured I'd changed tubes in much worse places than that so I took my time and enjoyed it :) But I have since added a CO2 inflator to my Xmas list. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
