Day 6: Up Mt Wellington, Hobart
Posted by Melissa on | March 9, 2008
Hobart – Sandy Bay > Kingston > Ferntree > Mt Wellington Summit
MC and BB 79kms
Back into city cycling - the lanes and lights and fumes are a bit of a shock after a week of wide horizons and clean air. We spin through bayside suburbs and along busy roads. Mt Wellington with its pale communications tower seems a long way off as we cycle the many undulating hills lined with homes with large leafy gardens. Our friend John starts feeling worse for wear and leaves us to return and rest in the city. It is unusual for a road leading up a mountain to have no switchbacks (turns), that snake back and forth and flatten out temporarily on the curve. The road up Mt Wellington offers no such respite and couples the 12-kilometres of straight incline with a heavy uneven road surface. Simon knows every trick in the book and points out to me that there are numbers on the road that count down the agony to the top. I become fixated on the numbers and somehow we all make it to the summit where it is chilly, our friends have gathered and there are fabulous 360-degree views of the Derwent River, the ocean, Bruny Island, Hobart city and its suburbs. A few tourists clap as we go past.
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March 9th, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
Thanks Melissa, what a ride! Love the photos too, the skies are spectacular.