Distance Travelled: 664
Cumulative Distance: 7828
Woke up to a beautiful sunny day, then noticed big black clouds over the Indian Ocean. Luckily they stayed out there. Loaded up, had breakfast and left at 9am. We are now getting into the Pilbara region of Western Australia (iron ore country). The scenery has change and we rode through hills and valleys where the vegetation was a lot more interesting than before. Saw my first Emu of the trip ... luckily it ran away from me rather than to me. Also saw a Dingo disappearing off into the bush. We stopped to take pictures at various places on the way. One of these was a pile of rocks like a mini Olgas.
we climbed to the top and could see all around the beautiful countryside. Stopped at the Nanatura roadhouse where we bought the most expensive fuel so far$1.88/litre and meat pie at $7!!! We also filled our 5 litre fuel containers in case we need them in Karajini. We get about 330kms from our fuel tanks and the 5 litres gives us an extra 80 - 90 kms. 
We arrived at Paraburdoo at 2.30pm and refuelled. Not as expensive as Nanatura. Paraburdoo is a small mining town and there is not much to it. We headed for Tom Price and reached the turn off for Karajini at 3.30pm. The scenery on this bit of road was quite spectacular as we rode through passes between the hills. 
The dirt road to the Eco Retreat we were camping at was heavily corrugated and our bikes were shaken quite a bit. Colin did well to keep his bike upright. Tomorrow We are going to set them up for dirt road riding ie low tyre pressure, off road foot pegs etc. We arrived at the Eco retreat at 5pm as we were only doing around 30kph on the dirt road. The sun was low in the sky and it was hard to see the ruts etc. Lesson one make sure you arrive at your destination in the mid-afternoon at the latest. I was still struggling to set up my tent as the sun went down. We dined at the restaurant which as very pleasant. The weather is warm and sunny and which is great. Tomorrow we are going to explore some of the gorges. There is no mobile reception only slow internet and a payphone so I am not sure when I will be able to post this entry., We have only just arrived back in civilisation so it will take a few days to get our blog up to date.
Cumulative Distance: 7828
Woke up to a beautiful sunny day, then noticed big black clouds over the Indian Ocean. Luckily they stayed out there. Loaded up, had breakfast and left at 9am. We are now getting into the Pilbara region of Western Australia (iron ore country). The scenery has change and we rode through hills and valleys where the vegetation was a lot more interesting than before. Saw my first Emu of the trip ... luckily it ran away from me rather than to me. Also saw a Dingo disappearing off into the bush. We stopped to take pictures at various places on the way. One of these was a pile of rocks like a mini Olgas.
we climbed to the top and could see all around the beautiful countryside. Stopped at the Nanatura roadhouse where we bought the most expensive fuel so far$1.88/litre and meat pie at $7!!! We also filled our 5 litre fuel containers in case we need them in Karajini. We get about 330kms from our fuel tanks and the 5 litres gives us an extra 80 - 90 kms. 
We arrived at Paraburdoo at 2.30pm and refuelled. Not as expensive as Nanatura. Paraburdoo is a small mining town and there is not much to it. We headed for Tom Price and reached the turn off for Karajini at 3.30pm. The scenery on this bit of road was quite spectacular as we rode through passes between the hills. 
The dirt road to the Eco Retreat we were camping at was heavily corrugated and our bikes were shaken quite a bit. Colin did well to keep his bike upright. Tomorrow We are going to set them up for dirt road riding ie low tyre pressure, off road foot pegs etc. We arrived at the Eco retreat at 5pm as we were only doing around 30kph on the dirt road. The sun was low in the sky and it was hard to see the ruts etc. Lesson one make sure you arrive at your destination in the mid-afternoon at the latest. I was still struggling to set up my tent as the sun went down. We dined at the restaurant which as very pleasant. The weather is warm and sunny and which is great. Tomorrow we are going to explore some of the gorges. There is no mobile reception only slow internet and a payphone so I am not sure when I will be able to post this entry., We have only just arrived back in civilisation so it will take a few days to get our blog up to date.
Baby girl born to Jackie and Luke Durack on Sat 22nd May at 11.01am, chubby cherub at just over 9 lbs - mother and babe home now and doing well. Grandparents besotted. Think they will call her Ava Norali Dura.ck
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