Bellarine Art, Wine & History Tour; 165 kms, Intermediate Grade

This is a long weekend event, starting on Friday morning. We will use the Port Phillip Ferry to get to Geelong. Meet at 9.00 am for coffee, before boarding the ferry to enjoy the bay cruise and scenery. We disembark to spend some time exploring Geelong, first to Little Malop St, then out to the Old Paper Mills at Fyansford where we can check out Provenance Wines and do lunch. After this we will follow the Barwon River bike-paths and cut across to the Bellarine Rail Trail to ride to Drysdale, then on quiet road across to St Leonards. We will stay here in an AirBnB or other booked accommodation.
Saturday will be a day to take a loop run to Queenscliff for the maritime museum and/or Fort Queenscliff Museum, then to Point Lonsdale to visit the lighthouse and view The Rip, and Marcus Hill for a winery, before returning to our accommodation.
On Sunday we will return to Drysdale to ride the rail-trail to Marcus Hill, then ride on to Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads for lunch. Our afternoon ride will return us to Waurn Ponds via Thirteenth Beach Road and Breamlea.

Route details are here:
Friday - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36625551
Saturday - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36625616
Sunday - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36625674

This is an INTERMEDIATE grade ride.

The Geelong Ferry needs to be booked; cost is $18 one way (bikes free, max of 20), journey time is 90 minutes. The plan is to book accommodation at St Leonards for about $50-70 per night. This ride is dependent upon booking available accommodation, which should not be too difficult with the lead-time, but will be restricted depending upon availability.

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