Distance - 98 kms
Climbing - 104 metres
View the ride here:
There are advantages to riding in sand:
1. If you fall off, it is softer than for example, bitumen
2. It is generally easier on the backside than corrogations
3. There is a certain level of excitement as you gain speed down a sand dune trying to avoid Point 1. from happening
4. It makes you appreciate how good harder surfaces are
5. It makes you stronger
Today is what it's all about. Pulling a fully loaded "Kracka" trailer through sandhills for a day is something everyone should experience at least once in their lives.
Anticipating the hardest days riding of the trip, we were away early. The roads out here have been generally great but the landscape has turned in to a parallel dune structure, which we had to get up and over. There's no easy way other than to grind it out. No spills thankfully, we pulled in to camp after 6.5 hours riding and 100 kms weary but satisfied with the result.
Not a sole out here. Danggali is an internationally recognised wilderness mallee woodland and a fabulous place. Compare this with the mallee used by pastoralists - hard to believe they were the same a couple of hundred years ago. No time to check it out though, off to Lake Victoria tomorrow, shorter day at 80kms, might even sleep in.
A bit of variation with the diet tonight, little boys with rice, plus a sweet and sour simmer sauce with pineapple and carrots. Tasty!! The little boys turned a funny colour though.
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| Camp for the night, was actually an excellent camp site |
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| Too many options |
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| Changing over to sand tyres |
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| Good fun, I think |
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| A fully loaded Kracka |
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| Just arrived |
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| Home for the night |
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| Another variation on little boys |
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