Distance 70km
I got going early and was on the road by 7:30am. I rode through a quiet Kapunda. Out the out side of Kapunda I joined the dirt roads of the Mawson trail. A few days earlier on Facebook a couple of New Zealanders ahead of me had suffered in the mud, having great difficulties getting through. However for me it had mostly dried out. I meandered through grape vines until eventually I got to the main Sturt Highway. It was a bit of a shock, road trains, lots of traffic, it was difficult to just cross. I stopped at the servo for a snack, then rode along the badly laid bitumen of the bike lane into Nurioopta . Eventually I got out of Nuri and joined the bike lane that runs along the main road, and turned north riding through the outskirts of Tanunda. The track then crossed the Little Para River and wound through farmland and grape vines until I got back to the highway at Rowlands Flat. That is where I left the Mawson Trail. There was about 75km of the Mawson trail to go that winds through the Adelaide Hills. I had done that section before, and accommodation is sparse in the Adelaide Hills. I had done 835km of the Mawson and I now was heading to the Gawler train station. It was 21km to Gawler along the Barossa Bikeway, which was very nice. I arrived at the station at 3pm in the afternoon to catch the train to Adelaide.
