Posted by I was a little way ahead of them when I heard Zara burst out into a huge sobbing fit, declaring that she couldn’t possibly go on and that this was absolutely, positively, the worst day of her life … ever.
… and look, in her defense, at that point in time she was barely visible above the thick bracken as she tried gamely to push her very heavy bike up a fairly steep bush track …
and you also have to factor in that this was her first ever ‘off road’ ride in her life …
… and that on the way down she had had a fairly nasty crash straight into a log and had done quite a bit of damage to her foot … which didn’t stop us putting her to work searching for oysters …
Problem was that it was still only the first morning of our three days on Bruny Island, and this wasn’t a good start.