Jase and Jess

Today we start off on our honeymoon, and as luck would have it it’s raining…..heavily…

So we don our highly attractive wet weather fashion statements and head towards the coast, we leave Canberra’s rainy weather in hope of better weather…to find ourselves riding in driving rain, low visibility and gusty wind, not the most pleasant start to a honeymoon.

Water has an innate ability to find its way into boots, socks, gloves and helmets, this meant that we experienced the kind of wet you’d feel if hoping under a shower full clothed wearing 3 kilos worth of gear….

Although starting off we felt trepidation and enthusiasm, two hours later we were feeling like angry drowned rats….

A stop off at Cooma brightened things considerably and chance to wring water from socks and gloves, a hot coffee, a steak sandwich and a chance to take stock….we decided that we were going to ride on though to brown mountain, where the rain eased into a slight coastal drizzle and made conditions quite a lot nicer to deal with, the mountain was beautiful after the rain, lush and green.

Finally we made it to our cabin, peeled off our gear and went about trying to dry it (with wildly varying degrees of success)

After a hot meal straight into an exhausted sleep ready for the next stretch.