Day: |
012 |
Date: |
28 May 2008
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Start |
Croydon
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Finish |
Burke & Wills Roadhouse - 90km
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Daily
Distance: |
244km
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Daily Speed: |
n.a. |
Relative to Schedule: |
-271km
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Daily Podcasts: |
Here &
here |
GPS Track |
Here |
Journal: |
I got up at 6:30am and wandered across to the nearby café for
breakfast once I was packed and ready to go. Croydon seemed
like a neat and tidy outback town and I watched everybody getting
ready for their day while I ate my breakfast at an outside table.
I then went into the grocery section of the small store and
purchased enough food and fluid to get me to the next store, Burke &
Wills Roadhouse, 347km away. I left town shortly before 9am
and spent the next 155km cycling along a perfectly flat road through
the timbered savannah with a slight following wind. There were
a few cattle amongst the trees and I actually saw a herd of about
100 cattle being driven by authentic drovers who gave me a wave as I
passed. The road also paralleled a railway line used by the
Gulflander motor train once or twice a week and I actually saw the
two-carriage train trundling along with tourists hanging out of the
window through the trees. I reached a road junction just
south of Normanton around 3pm and turned south. I decided I
didn’t want to detour into Normanton, 7km from the junction, and set
out towards the Burke and Wills Roadhouse, 200km to the south.
The breeze became a headwind and my speed slowed. The
countryside became more undulating and the road descended to cross a
few rivers. The trees gradually cleared so the land became
vast brown paddocks with occasional Brahmin cattle. I was
treated to a beautiful red sunset and continued riding until just
before 9pm when I reached a roadside rest stop where quite a number
of caravans and campers were stopped for the night. I found a
sheltered concrete picnic table and spread out my swag on the
concrete floor and was quickly asleep. My hope for tomorrow
was to get to Cloncurry at a good hour so that I could get a shower
and have a good sleep.
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