A simple day – get a hundred metres onto the road and discover that the handlebar bag bouncing over the corrugations had worn through the gear cable covers over the front wheel. The gear cables couldn’t support compression so I …

No snakes overnight despite camping on deeply cracked grey soils on a shrubby creek bank! No rain either so all good.

A quick first 20 km on good road with a tailwind past the Davenport house to the boundary of …

Chris Mitchell the National Parks ranger told me how to get to the Diamantina Gates (a gorge through which the river surges when in flood) and saw me on my way. Thanks for the talk about the recovery in soil …

A quickish 16 km cross wind ride up the ‘Cork Jump Up’, a well known local mesa, to the dinosaur footprints at Lark Quarry. It is surprising to see how much effort is being put into developing the rich dinosaur …

Mud holes and headwinds for the first 50 km from Brighton Downs to Old Cork turnoff. Slow grinding work riding a bit, getting off the bike and push it around the bog hole, back on the bike and 500 m …

Whooo whooo!!! Made it to Winton and then on to the sheep station on the catchment divide between the Thompson River (becomes Cooper Creek into Lake Eyre) and the Diamentina River (goes down past Birdsville to Lake Eyre).

An earlyish …

Finally on the bike again.

A bit of a tailwind to get me over the rolling hills to Broad Arrow pub, all that is left of this mining town. A photo and onwards.

Nothing much to note about the day. …

Left Coolgardie for what seemed like an exceptionally hilly and long 37 kms in to Kalgoorlie.
I think it was the frequent traffic that put me off, lots of road trains going to mines and Toyotas and HiLux’s doing same. …