May 13, 2023
Day 13 - to Charleville
The lightest rain greeted the morning. I lit a fire and then jumped in the Warrego mainly to remove yesterday's salt. Back in town I took advantage of the free phone and then did a quick tour. A tour of Wyandra will always be quick!
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I was on my way in country that was much more pleasant than yesterday's, thanks to the tree- lined highway. Within minutes I saw emus, wedgetail eagles and pink cockatoos.
There was tremendous variety in the forest. Callitris reappeared and with it apostlebirds.
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The diversity gave me some fine wildlife sightings - echidna, Western grey kangaroos, flocks of cockatiel, to name but a few. But there were also many signs of prickly pear, a plant that once covered swathes of inland eastern Australia.
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The cycling was a bit like yesterday with the onset of headwinds. Again, I had lunch early and had just eaten when Mark, a member of a seismic team, offered me a couple of salad rolls and a vanilla slice, excess to their needs. I had the lot for dessert, with coffee!
Soon after lunch I was eying an object a few hundred metres away when a car overtook me and ran over said object - a gorgeous bearded dragon. Unbelievable!
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http://reptilesofaustralia.com/lizards/agamids/pvitticep.htm
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I had not gone much further when I came to the scene of Australia's worst traffic explosion at Angellala, where a truck carrying ammonium nitrate went bang.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disasters
Lots of info about them on the internet, most recently Beirut. Learned about them first back in ammo school in the early 1970s.
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About 15 km from Charleville I was amused to see a sign indicating cyclists. Really, out here?
And after a fine day's cycling I arrived in Charleville where I hope to regroup, do some media and get the blog up to date which I've now done.
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Or after some other random Charlie such as that Chaplin fellow?
As you probably know Charles I was decimated by decapitation. His son, the popular Charles II, was decimated by something else and left no heirs, despite having 10 or more surviving kids.
Charles III is a work in progress.
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Today's ride: 104 km (65 miles)
Total: 1,354 km (841 miles)
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