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Day: |
012 |
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Date: |
Tuesday, 8 August 2006 |
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Summary |
Riding from Bourke to 60km south of
Cunnamulla. |
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Start: |
Bourke |
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Finish: |
60km south of Cunnamulla. |
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Daily
Kilometres: |
194 |
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Total
Kilometres: |
1495 |
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Weather: |
Cold early but mild and sunny for the rest
of the day with a light, mostly cross wind. |
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Accommodation: |
Camping by the road, 60km south of
Cunnamulla , Queensland . |
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Nutrition: |
Muffin and biscuits for breakfast, pie and
sausage roll for lunch, and peanut butter roll and apple for dinner. |
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Encounters: |
Saw kangaroos, feral goats and lots of very
aromatic road kill. |
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Highlights: |
Completing my ride across NSW in less than
five days with great weather, mostly flat roads, little traffic and
dinkum outback scenery. |
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Lowlights: |
My right ankle has been quite sore,
especially when I stand up on the pedals (as I do frequently to give
my butt a break), and my backpack was rubbing on a particular
vertebrae. |
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Journal: |
I decided to get going early, leaving town
via the nearby bakery at 6:30am, although I was unsure what my game
plan was going to be for the day. It would be a very long day to
Cunnamulla (~250km) or quite a short day to Barringun (136km). I
again made good time through flat mostly open arid grazing land.
There was virtually no traffic for the first couple of hours. I
reached Barringun on the Queensland border around 1:30pm and decided
to ride on another 60km and camp by the road rather than ride in the
dark all the way to Cunnamulla (I probably wouldn’t have got there
until after 8pm). Before continuing, I called the public library in
Cunnamulla to make sure they would be open tomorrow and that they
had internet access. I booked an hour from 3pm. I’ve decided that,
rather than have a full day off in Charleville, I’ll have a short
ride tomorrow and call my Cunnamulla day a rest stop. That will
give me two days up my sleeve on my schedule. I rode until about
5:30pm and found a spot just off the road to camp. It wasn’t great,
but OK, apart from the mosquitoes (no repellent!). I set up camp,
had a quick dinner and went to bed soon after 7pm with the goal of
getting an early start tomorrow so that I would be in Cunnamulla in
mid-morning. |
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