At 4⁰C it was a little hard to get out of bed this morning, but again there was no timetable to keep. We had breakfast and went for a walk along the lake, one of the signs had an ad for an old historical pub at Many Peaks that did lunches. After checking out the lookout we headed for the pub about 40km along the Boyne valley. The drive took us a number of small towns that did not appear on the maps we had. The Grand Hotel in Many Peaks was originally built in Gladstone in 1896 as the Railway hotel and when Many Peaks was established as a copper mining town the hotel was dismantled, transported by horse and dray 95 kms to Many Peaks, rebuilt and opened as the Grand Hotel in 1909.

Grand Hotel, Many Peaks

The lunch was good, quite a few weekend road warriors showed up lunch as it was a beautiful day for a ride.

Back at camp we relaxed, sorted out some of our winter clothing and put summer stuff up on the roof, I suspect there will be little opportunity for shorts & t-shirts from now on.

That night, all rugged up with beanies and gloves, we enjoyed a Skype session with our family back home. Jacky is starting to feel to pull of home and family and I suspect I will struggle to get her enthusiastic about sightseeing in the final home stretch.