No one else was at Haddon Corner last night so very peaceful.
A slow retrace of the corrugated, gibber strewn, dusty track out to the Arrabury Road starting with push/pulling the loaded bike over the soft sand track over the …
Day 61 11 June Betoota to Diamantina Development Road 84 km
Hard work today.
The road is a minor road short-cutting from Winton down to the Birdsville road. It is basically the old stock route following the Farrars Creek down towards the Sturt’s Stoney Desert. As such, much of the road …
Day 62 12 June Diamantina Development Road to Davenport Downs 115 km
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 …
Day 63 13 June Davenport Downs to Diamantina Lakes 60 km
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 …
Day 64 4 June Diamantina Lakes National Park to Brighton Downs 80 km
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 …
Day 66 16 June Cork Station nearly to Winton 105 km
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 …
Day 65 15 June Brighton Downs to new Cork Station 108 km
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 …
Day 67 17 June 2016 – Winton and that beer with the brother!!
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 …
Day 16. 27 April 2016 Leonora to Laverton. 124 km
A straight run on a magnificent bitumen highway to arrive at Laverton at 15:30. Apparently the road was built as part of the Posiedon nickel boom of the 1970’s. The miners wanted a railway but Charlie Court apparently would only …
Day 15. 26 April 2016 Menzies to Leonora. 103 km
Slow out of Menzies. 9:00 am before finally took last pictures of the Achievable Cafe (must be a contender for most remote cappucino in WA) and a statue referring to the Lake Ballard sculptures (not going 50 km out along …