DAY 42
I didn't have to be up early but I was..blast it! I had slept well with the heating off but it was bloody cold outside this morning! I put on every layer I had and wheeled the Twin out of it's little holiday hut where it had sheltered for the night, backing it up to my door so I could load her up.
DAY 41
It had rained pretty heavily at times overnight. I was hoping to incorporate some dirt roads today after advice from the ranger at the Head of The Bight visitors centre and the gent I chatted to last night. But what would the roads be like?
Well, there was only one way to find out!
DAY 40
40 days on the road! 40 amazing days of riding since I first left home, heading southbound waaaay back in early February! N.S.W., Victoria, Tasmania and now South Australia, here I was on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain!
DAY 39
The alarm went off but it was still dark. WTF? Looking out of my room to the east I could see that it was still quite overcast.
Bugger.
I was hoping to get some 'golden hour" shots of the port bit of Port Lincoln. I got up, rugged up and went for a wander, making the best of what I had. I think I did ok....
DAY 38
That run of days off came around pretty quickly! Looking at the weather forecast and it looked pretty good with a big high pressure system centering itself over the continent for the bulk of my days off. That would make for some pretty decent weather if I were to head west - so, it was go west, young man!
Leaving Adelaide I actually had clear blue skies for the first time since having the bike down here. It was cool but that beats being rained upon before even leaving town.
I headed straight up Port Wakefield road as that was the quickest way out of Dodge and the most direct way to Port Augusta at the head of the Spencer Gulf and hence, Port Lincoln, my intended destination for tonight. The catch with getting to Port Lincoln, which is only 280 kilometres from Adelaide in a straight line is that one has to circumnavigate the Gulf of St Vincent and the Spencer Gulf to get there - so some 650 kilometres by road!
The road up to Port Wakefield is pretty straight dual lane carriageway but is marred by being cursed with "average speed" cameras. This made the ride tedious as I needed to keep a hawk eye on my speedo to avoid any "creep" that would see me paying extra taxes to the South Aussie Garment. (so far, so good though...)
Just south of the Port Wakefield township (and just north of the last average speed camera) is the Port Wakefield Proof and Experimental Establishment. Here, the army and navy test fire artillery into the Gulf of St Vincent. Interesting stuff!
