Riding the island.....

Road bikes are out (or kept inside on their wind trainers). It's all about fatter tyres and suspension here. Gravel predominates over asphalt (although pot holes don't discriminate). But the riding here is GREAT! Plenty of hills to go up and down. Plenty of scenery. You just have to go out with a willingness to say 'morning' or 'apinoon' at least a hundred times as you pass the villages and people strolling home along the roads.

I've been getting out with some of the similarly minded girls on the weekend for a ride, in preparation for our goal of riding around the island soon. This will be a feat that will involve negotiating the day's humid heat (alleviated by the fine invention of the camelback) and a stop in the middle of the ride at the resort on the other side of the island for lunch.

  

    

Apart from the multiple hill climbs to plug away on, the current challenges to accomplish are 'the goat track', a steep short cut that gets you up from town to townsite (where our houses are) at the end of the ride, and managing to cross the creeks without falling in. Neither of which I've come close to achieving just yet.

It's not Beach Road, but the views are pretty good. And the road rage is non-existant. Or traffic lights (that could be because there aren't any on the island!).

      

   

   

On yesterday's ride we passed a big 'mumu' in full swing, involving the cooking of a very large pig. Here's one that was prepared earlier.

More stories of riding adventures to come soon.....