Distance travelled: 588 kms
Cumulative distance: 4843 kms
Got away relatively early at 7.30am so we could do some sightseeing round Esperance before heading to Albany. Headed for Cape Le Grand National Park which is southeast of Esperance. There was a beautiful white sandy beach located under the imposing headland of Cape Le Grand. We took a walk following a path up the headland hoping it would lead to the ocean side of the bay but it didn't so we returned to walk along the beach. The scenery was quite spectacular with sea bright blue contrasting with the white sand. We could only stay for an hour as we had to leave enough time to get to Albany before 6pm when Ulyssess AGM registrations finished for the day. If we had missed the deadline we would have had to look for alternate accommodation to the campsite we had booked. The ride from Esperance to Albany was fairly straight forward except the wind was still blowing hard making it that bit more difficult. We stopped to help a couple of riders having puncture trouble. One of them had repaired a puncture in Hay NSW about three thousand kms ago and it was just starting to leak air. They had tried several times to fix it but to no avail. Alan had a special puncture repair outfit with mushroom shaped plugs that could solve their problems so he lent it to them just to get them to Albany. In the end they didn't need it as they managed to make Albany without any more problems.
Albany is a pretty little town on the southwestern corner of Australia. It used to be a whaling town but is now mainly a tourist centre. There is some quite spectacular scenery in the area which we hope to sample in the next few days. The weather promises to warm up so it should be quite pleasant.
Cumulative distance: 4843 kms
Got away relatively early at 7.30am so we could do some sightseeing round Esperance before heading to Albany. Headed for Cape Le Grand National Park which is southeast of Esperance. There was a beautiful white sandy beach located under the imposing headland of Cape Le Grand. We took a walk following a path up the headland hoping it would lead to the ocean side of the bay but it didn't so we returned to walk along the beach. The scenery was quite spectacular with sea bright blue contrasting with the white sand. We could only stay for an hour as we had to leave enough time to get to Albany before 6pm when Ulyssess AGM registrations finished for the day. If we had missed the deadline we would have had to look for alternate accommodation to the campsite we had booked. The ride from Esperance to Albany was fairly straight forward except the wind was still blowing hard making it that bit more difficult. We stopped to help a couple of riders having puncture trouble. One of them had repaired a puncture in Hay NSW about three thousand kms ago and it was just starting to leak air. They had tried several times to fix it but to no avail. Alan had a special puncture repair outfit with mushroom shaped plugs that could solve their problems so he lent it to them just to get them to Albany. In the end they didn't need it as they managed to make Albany without any more problems.
Albany is a pretty little town on the southwestern corner of Australia. It used to be a whaling town but is now mainly a tourist centre. There is some quite spectacular scenery in the area which we hope to sample in the next few days. The weather promises to warm up so it should be quite pleasant.
Glad to hear the weather is warming up Al - at least you'll be able to dry out your mouldy underpants finally (thanks for that image in your last post BTW!)
ReplyDeleteHope you both have a whale of a time in Albany... fnar fnar.
Rob
Looks like fun Sam - do you think I would be able to talk Eiko into replicating in an MGA if i agreed to put the top up!
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