Today, Sunday 6th September has been a rest day for the team. There has been far less activity than on the previous rest day at Streaky Bay. Being Sunday and because we are staying at the Burra Uniting Church, we went to the 11am service (the only one for the day). Mark and Luke (good Scriptural names!) spoke about what we are doing and why, and then Allan led in prayer. The message was a story pulled from the internet, a story about a taxi driver and an old lady – a nice story, but hardly an exposition of Scripture.Some of the riders are doing a bit of maintenance on their bikes as I write and others I suspect are sleeping or walking around town. Most of the clothes washing got done yesterday and the property has been decorated with all the colours of the rainbow ever since.
Tonight we are meant to be eating at the Burra Hotel. The sign outside it says something to the effect that it has “no pokies – everyone wins”. Good on the pub! Tomorrow we are off to Waikerie, a town on the Murray River. It is in the midst of one of the main fruit growing areas of the country but we are unlikely to be the recipients of any this time around because we are here a bit too early in the season I think. We went through Waikerie in 2006 on the Bike for Bibles Ride Across Australia and were given a case of oranges that were among the best we had ever eaten. Jim’s itinerary tells me the ride tomorrow is to be 123km.
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