OnYaBike Sydney to Perth 2008

Rest and recreation Norseman

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Great down hill runs from Fraser range to Norseman. Arrived Norseman about 3.30pm on the front of a good following wind.

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20 kms to Fraser Range Station - a sheep station with about 3000 sheep - downsizing because soon to be sold. Caravan park, shop camping etc. Stopped for water, washing, chocolate.
The view from top of the range is enough to take ya breath away but well beyond the capabilities of my little camera to capture.

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Up late, slept in due to my new very comfortable mat - thanks Judi again! Sunny warm morning no cloud N to NE breeze did 15kms before breakfast/lunch. Past dead forest must have had a very serious fire out here recently covering tens of thousands of hectares. Rolling country side like the manic depressive country […]

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Left Balladonia latish with a mild westerly blowing. Great museum with a display of events of interest including the fall to earth of Sky Lab during the Presidency of Billy Carter. Space junk fell over an area from Esperence to Balladonia. The US president personally rang the road house to apologise for dumping his countries […]

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Rest and recreation at Balladonia. Found the above graphic scratched into the paint on the front window of the backpackers. I cut off the ‘= stupid’ , presumably added later, to the right.

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Woke to a calm day - gentle breeze from the east with patchy morning cloud. Slept like a log. 1 Wedge Tail Eagle day.
Did the 50kms into Balladonia on a confused wind NW, W, SW - anything but from behind.
A few of rally of 200 2CV cars to Kalgoorlie and Kathrine stopped in to […]

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In the morning met Tony, a gold prospector and his mate Liz. He made me tea and toast for breakfast and showed me his most recent finds - 3 ounces, $3,000, found in one morning near Barridale in south west WA. His biggest nugget find was valued at $7,000. He wasn’t worried about telling me […]

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Have been making so little headway decided to try cycling at night to avoid the worst of the winds. Made about 20kms in relatively safety - can see the traffic miles and miles away but near froze waiting for night to fall before setting off and not sure I had sufficient batteries to make the […]

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15 kms in blustery north westerlies. Wind very uncomfortably cold and strong - difficult to find shelter from it. Extremely cold day even in the sun. No cloud in the morning but clouded over in the afternoon. Front coming?

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Wind calmed a little today allowing some headway.
So many roos it reminded me of a paragraph in the biography of a rabbit shooter featured in the museum at Eucla that quotes him as saying ‘In 1954 they were so thick on the ground you had to kick ‘em out of the way to […]

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Another shift in the wind to a strong westerly, 20 to 25 knots - so another day off at exciting Caiguna. So much night life I hardly know which club to go to. Heavy rain last night. Seems I’ve had rain about every second day.

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Ha - the wind has shifted again, gusting today from north-northeast to north, to north-northwest in the afternoon, allowing me to make some headway. I did 40 km before breakfast, had planned to do 30km but must have missed the 30km signpost - a good thing I did because after lunch the wind shifted more […]

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How fickle the wind. It did a 180° shift last night and the headwind today was so severe I chucked it in after 6 km. Not fair on body or soul. Close to a p.w. (personal worst). I was looking for somewhere to set up camp when I spied a rough track off to the […]

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Woke to a tail gale. It blew me all the way to the next roadhouse (Cocklebiddy) same day. A p.b. - 91 kms. It’s surprising what a difference a tailwind, 2 blocks of cadbury’s chocolate, 2 day’s rest and 60 PSI of air in my tyres makes, as opposed to the 25 PSI in the […]

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