https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/nsw-cyclist-lachlan-morton-sets-around-australia-record-30-days/104426998
Imagine being so totally alone (except for the dude following you in a car so you don't cheat) like that. Just you, your bike, and the beautiful country all around you (and a dude following you in a car to make sure you don't cheat)
Must've been great.
You can't drive around the coast there, let alone ride a bike.
Here are the existing roads which are impassable half the year during the wet season.
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The real cop out is riding the inland route between Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, instead of going up the south eastern coast.
Still 500 km / 300 miles every day for 30 days is pretty impressive.
That peninsula has a name, you know.
...I mean, I couldn't say it off the top of my head, but it does have a name!
(it's the Cape York Peninsula, apparently. Apparently the population there is still 60% Indigenous, and they've successfully won native title rights to 45% of the land. The peninsula is largely coterminous with the traditional extent of the Paman languages, one of the two main branches of Pama-Nyungan, the largest language family in Australia — and among the Paman languages is Guugu Yimithirr, the language the word "kangaroo" is from. The Cape York Peninsula is also home to a number of Indigenous sign languages, and there is even a dialect of Auslan heavily borrowing from these, spoken by Deaf Indigenous people on the peninsula. Way cool!)
You may as well try to ride a bike through the Darien Gap. That shit gives First Nations scouts trouble.
Far north Queensland is a whole thing. Can't really ride a bike the whole way around I'd think.
Huh, funny coincidence, I just watched a documentary with this guy in it last night. These ultra distance cyclists are wild.
Just you, your bike, the beautiful country, and the most dangerous fauna on earth.
Sorry, I live in a tiny island where the most hostile animal outside of man is a fire ant. Australia seems nice, just wildly unpredictable.
The Australian wildlife thing is pretty exaggerated. If you stick to the roads you'd probably only rarely get close to a wild animal, and it'll just be vibing along and leave you be.
Except in far north Queensland and parts of the NT which were avoided for a reason.
The Australian wildlife thing is pretty exaggerated
Oh but if you want to live do not enter the crocodile kingdom
