Distance 31km
It rained a fair bit of the night. Plus there were so many people camped that some people had to party on until midnight. I cooked breakfast and packed up the wet tent. I hit the road at 8:10am. I went up to the servo to see if they had some duct tape – they didn’t, but they had huge queue of campers waiting for their coffee fix. I rode the steep grade out of Melrose, and at the top it started to rain. It rained on and off, until 7km out of Melrose I broke spoke number 7. So in the rain I replaced the spoke and another random spoke, and kept going, because I was getting cold. I kept hitting patches of mud that really slowed me down. I originally wanted to get to Laura but there was no way I was going to make that. I Set on making it to Wirrabara Ippinitchie campground. About 10km from the campground I decided maybe it would be a good idea to see if there were any vacancies online. Of course it was fully booked, so I started looking for stealth camping spots while I was still in the forest. I found one at 3pm, so I finished very early
