I added an extra side quest around Budgewoi on today's ride, and a loop over the footbridge and around Dunkey Island.

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After many many days of rain, today's ride was full of:
fingers crossed that I'm remembering that the path shouldn't be too far underwater,
nope, not trying that,
turning around,
going back,
and
riding the long way around.
If some old(er) person on an e-bike made it through a body of water (surprising how many there were) then I followed, but the rest of the ride I was opting for safe and sensible.

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Detoured onto a couple of fire trails for today's ride.
Back on concrete, I had a stick stick 🤪 in my back wheel, and make a breaking kind of noise.
When I looked back, I saw a reflector on the path, so that obviously made the noise when the stick popped it off.
However, both my reflectors were still on, so my bike got some bonus bike bling 🚴

Finally, Rocko the community rock snake has grown so much that he's shedding the tip of his tail. Time for him to get a new one. 🐍

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From 1m long, when artist Jody Chatman started him on 24-Jun-2023, Rocko the Community Rock Snake measured 294m today!

I'm sure there are holiday spurts of activity, but that's over 1m per day.

So, I'm going to peg this to the ground in the next day or two.

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Rocko the community rock snake continues to grow!

After planning to take a tape measure & some stakes, I realised that my #bicycle has a built-in measuring facility 🤯
Just count the rotations of a wheel, then calculate circumference etc. once home.

Today, I measured Rocko at 98.5 m long. This is about 15-20 m growth in less than a week!

The pictures are from the tip of the tail, looking towards the head.

The red arrow is where the tail was last week, the green arrow points to the head.

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Update on Rocko the #Budgewoi community rock snake:

• its head has been returned (or has regrown)
• the top (3rd) eye is missing
• the tail has grown significantly!