Well I am sitting on my bed at the bridport Hostel writing this blog tonight, I am a little stiff as I managed 363km of riding today, and what a great day I had, I wish all the roads in this country were as much fun as the ones in Tasmania and I enjoy the little country towns along the way and some of the old style buildings such as the one in the photo above.

The scenery along the roads is of such an interesting variety, on one hand today I saw Alpine type forest, and plantation pines and Marsh land and beach scrub all in the space of 60 miles on one part of the trip, unfortunately the only wildlife I saw where dead on the side of the road, lots of wombats and little wallabies sadly.

Today I road down through Scottsdale and went on to St Helens and did a big loop back up through Launceston and then back to Bridport and once again all great bike roads with plenty of challenging corners to keep most bike riders happy.

I stopped at a few interesting small roadside cafes along the way and had an interesting conversation with a Harley riding, logging truck contractor about the pros and cons of wood chipping and the dependence of a lot of the small towns in the North West of Tasmania on the forestry industry, a lot of what he said was valid, I didn't bother giving him a lecture regarding conservation and the environment because I figured that would only alienate him so I spent time to find out what his take was on the issues confronting the locals, we also talked about motorbikes of course.

Tomorrow I am having an off bike day and I am going to do some of the walking tracks around Bridport, beside which it will give my butt a rest for the day.

It's raining at the moment It managed to stay fine all day for my ride even though it was cloudy all day, I have been very blessed with good weather so I guess I will get some not so nice weather and I am not complaining, like most of Australia Tassie has been needing rain.