Today Distance :51.6km Total: 341.3km
Today weather : 20 - 30c sunny no rain
Time on Bike :3 hr 50 min
Ave speed : 13.4kmh Max : 42.0
Ave Climb : 2% Max : 11%
Trip Altitude :255m Max :142m
Today spend : 1944 yen Total :24874 yen
What a great day to start with the sun already up as earlier as 6am,a total contrast of whole day rain yesterday.After a light breakfast,we were ready to roll at 7ish.Ominachi town centre is another 7km , not much of a traffic at this early hour,but many school boys and girls were cycling to school.We are about to ride thru a series of beautiful islands,connected by magnificent bridges built with the bicycle friendly lane.One of the school boy we asked and he show us the direction to cross the 1st bridge to Mukashima island,once into the island,there is many signage that direct us to the nice bicycle path all the way to Imabari which is about 68km to the main Shikoku Island.Many Japanese retiree were fishing around the lake to past time in such beautiful and relaxing environment.At one of the rest hut, one japanese couple on their motorbikes approached to talk to us and provided useful informations. Soon ,the 2nd bridge,Innoshima Bridge to cross to the other island.Here we met with a japanese cyclist Ryusei , a university student in Tokyo, we cycled together aftercrossing the 3rd bridge of Tatara Bridge and we can only setup our tent after 5pm when all the shops were closed in the RnR park. We had to pay toll for our bikes in crossing the bridge by honasty cos nobody there to man the toll.Nice park with all the facilities around eg:sitting table,toilets and stores,while waiting for time to setup the tents ,we throw out our smelly wet stuffs to dry under a hot sun.At night we cooked our dinner with comfortable tables and we shared the dinner with Ryusei.
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| Primary school children going to school, note no mammy and daddy escort |
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| Secondary boys and girls cycle to school |
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| Innoshima Bridge connecting Onomichi to Mukashima island in Shikoku |
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| Very scenic as we took our time to ride and take pictures |
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| The bridge ain't heavy |
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| Local angler |
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| The red bridge under view |
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| Small gradually uphill bike path brought us to the 2nd bridge |
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| Rest hut along the way |
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| Back to back and we can make it - Gambate !!! |
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| With detail mapping |
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| Bautiful japanese lady ,a biker herself is interested in our tour |
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| Innoshima Bridge |
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| Blue line indicate bike path |
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| Car runs on top while bikes and pedestrains under |
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| Nice isn't |
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| Mostly make of steel |
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| Stone sculptures |
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| Briyani fried chicken for lunch 550 yen |
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| View of the road from the bridge |
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| Honesty toll gate for bikes 50 yen |
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| Bonsai-home to Japan |
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| Ryusei,japanese cyclist we met |
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| Tatara Bridge |
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| Drying our stuffs in the park |
You have a great day, lets hope it will be same for the rest of the ride ahead.
ReplyDeleteWhen you said secondary boys and girls it really confuse me...are you referring to Sherco? :)
I am only focusing on the girls,there are boys too of course.
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