Bike Ride to the Hume Highway

Last week the girls had a curriculum day (ie. pupil free day at school), it was a bright sunny day so we decided to head north on our bikes. We rode about 12 or 13 km along the creek until we got to the Hume Highway, or at least where the ring road intersects with the Hume. The bike path travels along the ring road, the noise of the traffic was horrible, something not noticed from within a car. Next time we will ride further and try and get to Cooper St Grasslands.

To the left of this picture is Jukes Rd Grassland behind the fence. It is a strange juxtaposition next to the mown lawn to its right. A boggy area of the mown section was noisy with frogs on the way out, quiet on the way home. (Aphra and Romy are the two little figures in the distance, I was very glad the home run was 'downhill'.)
Grasslands (I am told) are harder to mobilise public awareness and action around, because they are not trees, they don't look dramatic and so on. Invisible.
Looking forward to the Imaging Nature conference in Tasmania.