Love my sleeping bag but at some point during the night my airbed went “bang” and the baffles are now buggered but I was back to sleep again soon.
Gags & Hackle were leaving earlier than us but it really doesn’t matter, you start hearing bikes start from about 5am and I just stirred and nodded back to sleep. See Gags off and the boys and I are ready to head out before 9am SA time.
It’s another nice morning, the sun is high and not too much of a drama for visibility.
And on the return leg, you must get the other sign.
Cruisey ride with strong crosswinds and we all pull in for breaky at Nullarbor Roadhouse. Thankfully we are in early and order quickly cos after us the wait was atrocious. Good ham & cheese toasty here if you’re looking for one. As you do on the road you chat to everyone, doesn’t matter they ride a bike, you have that link and I must say that everyone has been absolutely wonderful to chat too.
The road on the return seems somehow to be shorter that it was on the way over, don’t ask me how, I know it’s the same distance must have something to do with the turnaround.
The cross winds are getting stronger and with the oncoming road trains, it’s certainly a workout to keep stable.
About 20km west of Penong Captain Plod is out, has a customer but Fergus and I are being well behaved. Into Penong for fuel and I wait for the boys to arrive. Check Fergus over and discover the oiler has let loose and the rear wheel is covered in oil, will fix that when we get into Ceduna. It’s starting to get warm and not having the camelbak, I actually felt it this morning, downed a bottle of water to get me through the last 75km.
A long way down the road, sitting on the opposite side of the road way ahead is another Captain Plod. A caravan in front of me (quite a distance) goes past him and he does a u-turn and sits on the vans bum for ages. Fergus is sitting on the limit not 1km under or over and we just cruise along steadily. Eventually the copper overtakes the van and is miles in front, then I take the van and just cruise into the quarantine station at Ceduna. Nothing to declare and into the OTR for a splash and dash, degreaser and wipes so I can do a little service on Fergus when we check-in.
More flash accommodation with good parking and I get to work cleaning the wheel and underneath off before making the necessary adjustments to the oiler so this doesn’t happen again.
The cross winds today have me feeling like I have sea-legs and I’m a bit wobbling and a bit dehydrated and salt deprived. Chippies and my go to Blue Powerade (which Macca has called Kimmie’s Kerosine) and I’m feeling much better.
A little afternoon stroll down the jetty and time to chill….literally the wind has a but of a bite to it.
Benefits of staying here is the club is attached and it’s an easy walk for an awesome feed – Roast Pork with veggies….yum yum. Then it’s off to get ice-cream for dessert.
Hopefully get a good nights sleep.
Missing Karl and the furbabies immensely but also having a time of my life.
