After a very rowdy night at Log Creek Crossing from all the animals around our campsite making animal noises all night and fighting between themselves we dragged ourselves out of bed and started the morning rituals. Looking out across to the Germans van suddenly two German heads popped up from nowhere. Not sure how 2 strapping lads fitted in that small van but we won’t dwell on that. I have to share part of my morning ritual with you, bare with me as I found the most stupidly designed toilet in all of the world. Parks Victoria you deserve a medal for this one.

Take a bow Parks Victoria the most stupid designed toilet in all the land

Now I am 6′ or 183cm tall and there is no way I could even get close to reaching the toilet paper on the other side of the shed while on the bowl! The other cubical built exactly the same but labeled disabled had the loo paper right next to the bowl. So the question is – because we are able bodied we can go back and forwards across the shed between wipes? I’ll let you ponder that predicament and how you would manage it. By the way I had skillfully taken my own paper as you never know what you will find in these outback long drops. The door also had no lock on it so it was freely accessable from the outside while you were on it and, it was even further to the door than the loo paper! That didn’t matter as the gap around the door was as big as your fist so everybody could see in anyway. There was also a very handy seat just in case you took friends in with you…..

Colquhoun trail head ready to rock

Smallest pump park in all of AUS?

We headed up the hill for the 5 minute drive to the trail head so we could do the tracks in the right order. They have setup the flow from the trail head so you can do almost all of the track in one big loop and arrive back at the trail head again. Sharon has watched a couple of YouTube videos of Colquhoun and it looked like a bit of fun. Straight up we were fanging downhill on the hard packed sandy base going over jump after jump. Soon we hit a dips and berms section and we thought that was good but it was only a taster of what’s to come. They have build a black diamond run through the length of a gully between hills going from one side to the other with hairpin turns at each side for what seemed like a couple of kilometres. The runs between the gully and up the other side were mostly steep and fast, how much fun can you have on one section of track?

Serious about Strava up here – even on trees

And you know when the Strava segment is finished so you can ride normally again!

There were lots of great little track side signs like ‘look ahead’, “new jumps ahead” and many others we can’t remember now

Once through all that we headed up on the loop to the back end of the park with a nice climb at 26% to sap our legs a bit with plenty of switch backs on the way up. Another nice berm section and some straight touring sections had us on the Pussy Log Track back to the car park. Pussy Log had excellent flow and it was fast with plenty of jumps. Back at the car park I put the GoPro on and went for another run through the Lollipop track but forgot to activate my Gamin for the first half. I was really flying with a couple of epic sideways moments on the fast switch backs between gullies but that’s the problem with Strava, 27th on the first run and ?? on the second. I was going for a third but decided to head over to the Southern Loop Track but it was rubbish. A motor bike track strewn with tree rubbish trying to break your derailer at every turn and I aborted at the first creek crossing and went back – it was that crap!

I made Sharon do it more than once so I could get a photo as proof

Plastic rakes dotted all around the track for a quick sweep as you ride through

WHAT! There was signal on that log to upload my Instagram!!!

http://youtu.be/j-jMJmFMk8c

We headed down the highway and got as far as Cann River and spotted a nice grassed camping area next to the river, $20 with plenty of hot water and power and a really angry woman you would not mess with taking our booking at the pub. The showers were not the cleanest, my cubical had a slug on the wall to keep me company, the water was hot and plentiful though and the plastic crocks kept me away from the nasties lurking in the crevices. About 10 campers here tonight from tenters to big caravans. The local shop run by an Indian couple sold everything except bread. Yep we got a couple of nice bottles of wine (covered in dust) but no bread. Heading to Tathra now skipping a few MTB parks in Victoria for a few days riding the Tathra trails and maybe some beach action as it was 26 degrees here today.