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Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.ml to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months ago

Did you know it takes around 30 days 9 hours and 59 minutes to ride around Australia?

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Did you know it takes around 30 days 9 hours and 59 minutes to ride around Australia?

Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.ml to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months ago
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/nsw-cyclist-lachlan-morton-sets-around-australia-record-30-days/104426998

Imagine being so totally alone (except for the dude following you in a car so you don’t cheat) like that. Just you, your bike, and the beautiful country all around you (and a dude following you in a car to make sure you don’t cheat)

Must’ve been great.

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  • Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    skipping that peninsula in the north feels like cheating tho

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      Removed by mod

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        Dude cheated the cliffs around Wollongong 0/10

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      That peninsula has a name, you know.

      …I mean, I couldn’t say it off the top of my head, but it does have a name!

      (it’s the Cape York Peninsula, apparently. Apparently the population there is still 60% Indigenous, and they’ve successfully won native title rights to 45% of the land. The peninsula is largely coterminous with the traditional extent of the Paman languages, one of the two main branches of Pama-Nyungan, the largest language family in Australia — and among the Paman languages is Guugu Yimithirr, the language the word “kangaroo” is from. The Cape York Peninsula is also home to a number of Indigenous sign languages, and there is even a dialect of Auslan heavily borrowing from these, spoken by Deaf Indigenous people on the peninsula. Way cool!)

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      9 months ago

      You may as well try to ride a bike through the Darien Gap. That shit gives First Nations scouts trouble.

    • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      Far north Queensland is a whole thing. Can’t really ride a bike the whole way around I’d think.

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    9 months ago

    Huh, funny coincidence, I just watched a documentary with this guy in it last night. These ultra distance cyclists are wild.

  • gueybana [any]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Just you, your bike, the beautiful country, and the most dangerous fauna on earth.

    Sorry, I live in a tiny island where the most hostile animal outside of man is a fire ant. Australia seems nice, just wildly unpredictable.

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      The Australian wildlife thing is pretty exaggerated. If you stick to the roads you’d probably only rarely get close to a wild animal, and it’ll just be vibing along and leave you be.

      Except in far north Queensland and parts of the NT which were avoided for a reason.

      • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        What’s up there they avoided it for?

        • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlOP
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          9 months ago

          Big ol crocs

          • kittin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            The Australian wildlife thing is pretty exaggerated

            Oh but if you want to live do not enter the crocodile kingdom

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              Hey, look, the crocs beat us here. Dibs is a powerful tool

  • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    How long would it take to walk?

    • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlOP
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      A while

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