Day 56: Bullara Station to Coral Bay

July 22, 2022

Start: 8:30 am
Distance: 74 km
Ride time: 4:46 hours
Average: 15 km/hr
Max: 28 km/hr
Finish: 3pm

Yesterday evening after I climbed into my tent it started raining lightly for an hour. I enjoyed listening to the pitter patter on the tent.

This morning I packed up my stuff and went to make my porridge for breakfast. Unfortunately I had left my lighter outside and it got wet. It wouldn't even make a spark to light the metho. A silly mistake.

I went to the cafe for breakfast.

Homemade sausage roll, scones, banana smoothie and a coffee. Breakfast of champions!

I'm still off the main hwy for a couple more days.

It's my first flat this year. And the second for my around Australia trip.

A pair of tweezers had magically penetrated my rear tyre by an inch.

I had to use my pliers to pull it out. What bad luck, the tweezers must have been pointing up at an angle to go into my tyre.

Anyway I shouldn't complain. Two flats in 10,000+ kms is pretty good I reckon.

To remove the tyre I have to remove the Rohloff rear mech. It changes the gears.

The big round screw is only done up finger tight without the use of a screwdriver.

The screw was already loose and would tighten up again. The thread must have worn away. I'm surprised the mech kept on working.

This means I will have to replace the cable tie everytime I remove the rear wheel. Hopefully I won't have to do it often.

This pretty flower shrub was next to where I stopped.

It persisted all day. It was annoying. The worst headwind of this trip.

Bill later identified this as a poison pea. Thanks Bill.

The scenery was mostly grass and termite mounds.

Today's ride: 74 km (46 miles)
Total: 3,371 km (2,093 miles)

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