Oz87 c- 5/12 cycling summary

place	arrival	miles          kms
Cape York	Sep 15
Cairns	Sep 20	vehicle
Rockhampton	Oct 4	704		1132
Brisbane	Oct 17	1218		1960
most eastern cape	Oct 21	1364		2271
Sydney	Oct 29	1887		3036
South point	Nov 15	2520		4056
Melbourne	Nov 19	2658		4278
N Tasmania	Nov 22	ferry
Hobart	Nov 29	3001		4832

For northern hemisphere people:
equivalent latitudes:  
Cape York to South Point = Addis Ababa to Athens or Costa Rica to Denver
cycling distance:  
Cairns to Hobart = Paris-Moscow-Paris or Halifax Nova Scotia to San Diego

10 punctures, 5 non-serious spills, 3 broken wheels, 9 tubs (large) of Vaseline, 48 pies and probably as many bananas, a million acts of helpfullness from local people, 7 gloves, getting on for a bottle of Oz wine an evening (and 1 Rioja), 6 good glasses of beer, an average of 50miles or 80kms a day, 3 time zones/changes, 3 sets of reading glasses, 4 drivers towing caravans which almost knocked me off the road, hundreds of truckers who didn't come close, 1 motel with cold showers, 99% of bridges with expansion gaps more than 1cm, the wettest spring since records began, joyful arrivals in Sydney, Blackburn (Melbourne), and especially Hobart.