Rest Day

Left: Steve Warden, we're not really sure what he was up to!

Below: The group having some down time.

Left: Ken West plays master chef.

Kevin Garrett and Jake Thomas of Werris Creek

Jake and Kevin again!

It's a rest day here in Mildura. Some of the riders are going for look around town, some are heading out to the Mungo National Park, some were paddle steaming up and down the Murray River and three or four were on a day trip to Wentworth for a look around in a hire car.
Some of us needed it too before we head off to Robinvale tomorrow.
That route has now changed. We were to ride through the National Park but the recent rain has made it too wet. Now it's a 140km trek around on bitumen.
For Werris Creek pair Jake Thomas and Kevin Garrett it's just part of the fun of the marathon 20-day ride.
Jake is on his fifth ride and Kevin his first.
Jake, 62, started on the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service charity bike rides in 2006.
He's been a source of one-line amusements ever since.
At breakfast this morning he had us crying with his assertion about Greg Davis' medication.
As Goog popped some of his tablets Jake said: "It's light viagra - no fat".
He and Kevin Garrett are retired railwaymen who were completing between 150-200 kilometres a week in preparation for this ride.
While it is Jake's fifth charity ride it is Kevin's first.
He was told by his family he was mad and if he was going to ride one why didn't he pick an easy one.
"In for a penny in for a pound," was Kevin's laughing reply.
There might not be much laughing when they begin tomorrow's 140km day at 6am.
PS "Hi Helen and the children," Jake said.