
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
By now, I thought I’d be writing about bicycle riding during the cooler months. Not so. June, our first month of winter, is over and the weather has been quite unusual. In fact, it’s been record setting. Across every state in Australia, averages for the month of June were warmer than long-term averages. In particular, Perth on the west coast experienced its warmest average daytime temperature for June in over 100 years… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability, Weather Tags: Cairns, Climate change, Coral Sea, Cyclone, Decisions, Great Barrier Reef, lifestyle change, Perth, Queensland, Rain, Statistics, Winter
This project shares stories from my cycling adventures. It is an urban adventure around my neighbourhood, my city and also includes my travels to other places. I invite you to share your stories too. My experiment to ride my bike for four seasons in everyday life has made it through its first season – summer! As you’d expect, some of my adventures over the summer involved meeting the weather like “Riding in… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Sustainability, Travel, Weather Tags: Active Travel, Bargara, Brisbane, Christmas, Climate change, Decisions, Great Barrier Reef, interesting people, lifestyle change, Lord Howe Island, Maintenance, Making choices, Rain, Resilience, Statistics, Summer, The Netherlands
Travelling over Christmas took me to Bargara. This small town hugs a coastline scattered with basalt rocks, remnants of a long extinct volcano, and nestles into the broader reach of the regional city of Bundaberg, which sits twelve kilometres inland. Two years ago, Bundaberg was a focal point of news services across the world because of the destruction and dislocation caused by floods. The city and its coastline is newsworthy for another… Read More
Category: Experiment, Sustainability, Travel Tags: Bargara, Bundaberg, Christmas, Coal mining, Coral Coast, Cycleways, Great Barrier Reef, Iain McCalman, Marine Conservation, Mon Repos, Penguin Books, Summer, The Hummock, Turtles
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons