Day 11 (48 km), Northcliffe to Yarra Kartta hut. This was a day of big skies and green paddocks. And flowers and rain showers. I think it was about at this point where my bottom bracket decided to join Paul’s in making a loud creaking sound. It was a competition on whose bike was making…
Day 6 (62 km). After a relaxing evening, a great sleep, a casual morning drinking coffee in the sunshine while our gear dried out, talking to Dale and Ken, and meeting all the animals at Crystal Valley Outcamp, we prepared to set off. As we pedaled up the hill towards the farm gate, I tried…
In mid-October we set off on our Munda Biddi Trail bike-packing adventure. The Munda Biddi is about 1018 km long and runs from the hills above Perth, Western Australia, to Albany on the south coast. It’s a mixture of (pea) gravel, dirt, sand, mud puddles, single track, paved and dirt roads, shared paths and snakes.…
We’re nearly done our tour. The last two days were spent around Mullewa, Barnong Nature reserve, Canna Dam & Big Rock, Toodjay, York and the Perth Hills. If you haven’t spent time in York, it’s a great little town with a very comprehensive and interesting motor museum (old cars, motorbikes, bikes, carts & buggies). These…
It’s been a while since my last post–been busy with various things like work, gardening, and training to ride the 1000+ km long off-road Munda Biddi Trail, which we did over the last two weeks of October. I’ll post about that fantastic adventure in a bit, but I thought I’d better finish up the last…
We spent the night in Gascoyne Junction–a tiny town with a caravan park / pub / cafe / restaurant / roadhouse all rolled into one–and that was it. We set up our tent, did 2 loads of laundry and played cribbage while the sheets dried on the line (I think I skunked Paul twice…hee hee).…
The other destination that has been on our list for a while is the Kennedy Ranges National Park. It is an eroded plateau located about 160 km from the coast. It was a shallow ocean basin a mere 250 million years ago, hence has a lot of marine fossils in the sandstone strata. Well, this…
We were planning on staying one more night at Burringurrah, but we met a fellow on the trail that recommended staying on the Lyons River about an hour and a half towards the Kennedy Ranges where we were heading next. He made it sound so good that we packed up and headed off with a…
Mount Augustus, or Burringurra, was one of those places we’ve been talking about going to for years. It rises 715 meters out of the alluvial plain and has a 49 km circuit drive that allows for access to different areas. It was a meeting place for the Wajarri People, who came here for the natural…
After leaving Cue-night #2 and triple checking that we’d not forgotten anything, we drove back to Meekatharra where we stocked up on food and found a proper flat white and a lemon pastry. We also had the privledge of using “The best public toilets in Australia as voted in 2017” by I’d like to know…
We woke up to a very chilly sub-zero morning, with ice sitting on the little flowers and spider webs. It was nice to see the sun rise and start to warm things up. We wandered around the bluffs for a while, then drove to Cue, which is a tidy little historic town with an interesting…
We drove from Watheroo National Park to just north of Mount Magnet, following the wildflower route from Latham to Mullewa. There were endless paddocks of beautiful bright yellow canola and deep green wheat along the way. But in between the farmland were a few interesting sights, such as War Rock and Bilya Rock. At War…
What a fantastic time of year to get up north of Perth on a driving and camping tour. It’s the best wildflower season in decades and it was spectacular! We are still leaving the dream here in Western Australia (WA) a with no COVID cases. It can’t last forever, but due to our isolated location,…
Well, 2020 was definitely not the year anyone had envisioned. Shortly after we arrived back home from our Japan ski and snowboard trip, the world went sideways. We found ourselves hunkering down in Dunsborough, and at one point were unable to travel outside of our region. We were allowed to exercise with members of our…
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Coffee, cake and kangaroos 