The road got progressively more corrugated the further it got from Warburton. The last 36 km in to Warakurna was appalling deep, close and continuous corrugations.
A car and caravan came past and called out ‘good day!’ – they were …
Day 23 4 May Warburton halfway to Warakuna 100 km
Left Warburton with an escort (briefly) of three primary school kids wagging school for a bit of motorbike riding up the GCR.
The road quickly deteriorates into a moderately rocky older style road as it heads up the Warburton Range. …
Day 22 3 May Rest day in Warburton
Given that, strictly speaking, non-community members can’t visit the Warburton community (although I gather this is not actually strictly enforced) all that is left to do in greater Warburton is to visit the community administration centre and art gallery. This …
Day 21 2 May Tjukayirla_Roadhouse to Warburton day 2 100 km
Made it to Warburton! Halfway!
Just more road but mostly in good condition. Not much traffic but again, those that did pass generally made sure that I was OK for water/health etc.
The last car to stop was a senior …
Day 20 1 May Tjukayirla_Roadhouse towards Warburton 100 km
Reluctantly said goodbye to the bitumen road/air strip at Tjukayirla (the most isolated roadhouse in Australia) and back on to variously sandy/corrugated/good road.
Interest this time was the appearance of camel tracks and even the sighting of three live camels.…
Day 19 30 April Hoffman Range to Tjukayirla roadhouse 75 km
Filled water bottles from the gnamma holes behind the White Cross, dosed ’em with tincture of iodine (3 drops/litre, leave at 20C for half an hour to kill most waterborne bugs) then headed to Tjukayirla roadhouse.
Stopped en route …
Day 18 29 April to the White Cross 100 km
More blandness on the GCR.
One horizontal dismount today because I didn’t watch the dust as I pulled in to the Surfers Paradise road side layby about midday (everybody sees it marked on the maps and goes to have a …
Day 17 28 April The Limestone Well is dead!!! Cosmo Newberry up toward Tjukayirla Roadhouse 100 km
Warning to cyclists: The famous Limestone Bore 20 km east of Cosmo Newberry is no more! Dead, non-functional. No water.
Don’t panic though – there is a stock water bore (Murrays bore) right on the road about 11 km east …
Day 17 28 April 2016 Laverton to Cosmo Newberry 80 km
A couple of hours checking emails and blogging at the Laverton community centre before hitting the frog_n_toad at about 11 am.
Ten kilometres of bitumen before the gravel and sand. The Great Central Road sees a surprising amount of mining …
Day 47 29 May Wangianna to Lyndhurst 114 km
Camping in abandoned fettler’s cottages has its issues: dingoes howling from near the front verandah being one.
Wangianna fettlers cottage
Seeing graffiti from Gunzel, a blogger on a Rail Page Australia forum, was also a surprise. The cottage is absolutely …