tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32523659363863011292024-03-19T20:54:32.273-07:00Salt to SummitLake Eyre to Mt. Kosciusko by bicycle.
Australia's lowest point to it's highest.
Two blokes, unsupported.
Three weeks riding 2,000km's, including 7,200 metres of climbing.Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-1243040729305178792015-10-06T01:32:00.000-07:002015-10-14T22:33:27.270-07:00Summary<div style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 1em;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were no epiphanies along the way. No sudden flashes of illumination. No becoming. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">No confronting fears. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">No need to find ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead this trip was a ruthless stripping back of the superfluous and inessential. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. It would be easier in a car</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. It would be easier if we weighed less</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. You don't need TV for entertainment. Go and talk to someone you don't know, it's a lot more interesting</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks everyone for the phone msgs, blog comments and text msgs of support - they were all very much appreciated.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, what's next? We are open to suggestions.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-17023005657599620552015-10-04T23:09:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:51:15.482-07:00Day 23 - Unfinished Business - Thredbo Village to Eagles Nest<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it turns out, the Merrit walking trail to Mt K is closed. Pity we didn't find this out until we got down from as high up as we could get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our bike ride has been book ended by warm weather, with cool weather in between. This has conspired against our quest for the summit. Some late season snow and the current warm temperatures have made the upper reaches slushy and impassable with our standard walking attire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We manfully gained the Eagle Nest after several aborted attempts. Fearing crevasses and after talking to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the girl behind the counter, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we reluctantly turned back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My comments on the Thredbo Villiage. I have no comment except to say that wandering around the ski fields for four hours I found 15 cents. If I'd stayed for another few weeks I could have found enough cash for an FUIC in any shop on SA. I would have had to stay an extra few months to buy one in the village bakery. 15 cents is also the change you get from $25 when you buy a pie and sausage roll.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-49809207889698931372015-10-04T20:25:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:35:53.960-07:00Week 3 summary<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 637 kms</span><br />
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-61322223235197946832015-10-04T18:24:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:36:55.118-07:00Day 22 - Won't need to buy ice for the beer tonight - Khancoban toThredbo<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the best days' riding I can remember. Divided into two parts. I had planned to say that we travelled at speeds ranging from 6 to 60kph but we did get as low as 4 at some points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first climb saw Tony dancing on the pedals like Alberto Contador after a visit from Dr Fuentes. We climbed 1000m in the first 20 K's only to lose 600 in a steep decent. I was a bit worried that I was going to run out of brake pads on the way down. We had started early (adjusted for daylight saving) <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">and the roads were quiet except for the odd snow plough. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end of the south section proved to be quite quick and we reached the Tom Groggin turn point brimming with confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last 15kms proved to be quite an emotional experience. Over 1000m of climbing with grades of 10% plus for much of the way. Tony got a bit messy in this afternoon's stage. We were out of mobile range so we couldn't place our own call to Dr Fuentes. The last part of the days ride was through snow covered slopes where we managed to secure a little ice for the eski. Makes for cold beer! Tony especially enjoyed the extra 10k's we had to do to find a campsite outside of Thredbo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a weird kind of way, that was fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We started at 200 metres elevation, rode 3 categorised climbs for 1237 metres but finished at only 300 metres at Khancoban.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day started cold and windy but ended up pretty hot. On the road at 6.30am. We took the High Country Rail Trail for about 10 kms, but it turned into a bit of a goat track so we returned to the Murray Valley Highway. There was very little traffic and it was all very civilised for the first 20 kms - lovely rolling hills following streams fed by snow melt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then the hills started. The first was about 8kms at 6% average with the odd sharp bit. Out with the granny gear. At the top it was a magnificent 7km freewheel down to the Murray Valley floor. Wonderful scenery, mountains either side and snow covered Alps could be seen in the distance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arrived in Corryong in pretty good nick - we shared a hamburger and chips for lunch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Murray Valley Highway gives way to the Alpine Way and the hills start again. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Arrived in Khancoban at about 2.30pm after a couple of sharp climbs, just in time to listen to the footy. We've scored again with a campsite overlooking Khancoban Resorvoir.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is the penultimate day for the Salt to Summit and just the entree for the main course tomorrow, Khancoban to Thredbo Village. It's about 2/3rds the distance and double the climbing. Could be messy, maybe not the last day, see how we go. Wish us luck!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spent a great day in Rutherglen yesterday. Fantastic, friendly town. Reminds me of home. Kath also arrived last night to help out with the last few days of our adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stopped at a bike shop in Albury to buy some thin (and light) tyres. What a shop! Acres of bikes and even some spare parts. These tyres gave us a few extra kph on the ride out to Tallangatta. We followed a converted rail line. Can recommend this route. It follows the edge of the Hume reservoir. Bit rough on parts, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but we enjoyed the absence of trucks and caravans.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-76026491760612146952015-09-29T22:40:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:55:13.503-07:00Day 19 - Booze - Rutherglen Wine Tasting<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Links between cycling and wine go back for centuries. In fact, alcohol was the original performance enhancing drug. In early editions of the Tour de France, domestiques would stop at hotels and commandeer whatever alcohol they could for consumption by the team, while they raced. Even now, who hasn't raced their bike home from the pub after a few beers. It works!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First stop was Stanton & Killeen. What a fabulous lineup of wine and fortifieds, very ably promoted by cellar door guru, Joe Duncan. Joe is a wonderful ambassador for his organisation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While all the grog was of a high standard, the highlight was some of the age ports together with a side-by-side tasting of the muscats through regional, classic, grand and then rare. The Grand and the Rare muscats in particular had an intensity and complexity that is difficult to describe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then it was across the road to Campbells. They have a larger selection of white and red wines, and varieties that you don't see everywhere, which made for some additional interest. I thought their Cabernets were great, but the highlight was the Rare Muscat, which retails for $120 for 375 mls. The best Muscat I can remember in some time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to reality tomorrow, with three, maybe four, days to go. A little bit anxious about the amount of climbing to be done. 500 m over 100 kms tomorrow, then 1500 m over 90kms on Saturday and 2500 metres of climbing over only 75 kms on Sunday. That will be an intense day, I'm tired just thinking about it. </span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-24958938936550615532015-09-29T22:34:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:38:52.107-07:00Day 18 - Cobram to Rutherglen - Yabba-Dabba-Dooo<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 89 kms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just been to the happy hour at the Rutherglen CP and got the good oil that Shark and Tatties are the go at the "Poachers Paradise".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dead trees at lake Malwala (Yarrawonga) were the feature of the day. I have hypothesised that poor old SA may have a bit more water in the Murray if they could reduce the evaporation from this part of the system. Everything is nice and green though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the happy hour, we directed discussions towards fishing. We found out that the best bait for Murray Cod is golf balls and mozzarella cheese. Who'd have thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as cycling goes, we have just finished the pre-season. The real event happens this weekend. Another 4000m of climbing will see the job done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a brief discussion regarding towing the trailers to the top. The first few bumps at Rutherglen put paid to that idea.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-32551072581029455842015-09-29T01:07:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:41:32.868-07:00Day 17 - Lost - Echuca to Cobram<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 116 kms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An upside of exercising hard for seven hours a day is you get to eat whatever you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example, for breakfast I had a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on thick white bread, a doughnut and a coffee with extra chocolate. For my first morning tea I had a Magnum ice cream, for my second morning tea I had a sausage roll with sauce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No guilt whatsoever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another advantage of travelling out in the middle of nowhere is the people you meet. Every single day we have run into a character or two. For example, today we met Mac Nye while we were waiting for the Cobram caravan park manager to come back from whatever the fuck he was doing. Mac Nye is 89 years old and loves a chat. He was a very successful Murray Cod fisherman in his day that conveniently had a photo album of the monster fish that he'd caught over the years. It was actually very interesting, he is a ripper bloke and he is caught plenty of big cod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This all happened while we were waiting for the caravan park manager to turn up. I'm not quite sure how long that took but we were able to drink six beers in between the time we got at the park and when he arrived. And I'm not quite sure if Brian (the caravan park manager) gets much social interaction because he seemed to have a lot of stories he wished to share with us as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, back to today's ride. We decided to take some of the secondary roads because the main highways are pretty busy. The downside is you can get lost, which I managed to do. The result is I travelled 12 kilometres more than Brian and he is quite disturbed by that. I'm not sure why. He reckons it's not a competition, so why would it matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was another fabulous day for cycling - good quality roads, temps in the low 20s, no hills, low traffic, lovely scenery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, early next week this is all going to end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A shorter day tomorrow at about 90 kms into Rutherglen. We are going to have our only real rest day when we get there, preparing for 3 days of very big hills. But there will be no rest. There is plenty of plonk here that requires tasting. Look forward to our tasting notes and recommendations in tomorrow's blog.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-35174029857539866182015-09-28T01:17:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:41:42.118-07:00Day 16 - Does the cycling God have a conscience? - Swan Hill to Echuca<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the cycling God gave us a pasting north of the Murray, he/she has finally shown us some compassion. He/she might be playing tricks?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have ridden this particular stretch of the Murray Valley highway at least 7 times, during my participation in the Port to Port ride with the Tasco team from Mildura. Never with conditions so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We felt violated by the experience at the Big 4 Riverside Park at Swan Hill, so we had planned a shorter day and spend the night out in the sticks camped at the Gunbower caravan park. We were also keen to sample the wares of the Gunny pub. On arrival however, not wishing to offend the gods, we pressed on to Echuca. We lucked on the happy hour schooners and the $12 pot and parmi deal at the Shamrock Hotel. Had to eat broccoli and cauliflower however. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broke another Kracka LFL record with the flat terrain suiting our level of fitness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tony, with suitable Mangina care, is proving to be the cycling powerhouse under these conditions. We cracked 33kph going through Torrumbarry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had a few interested punters in our journey today. A lawyer from Melbourne and a Sydney to Hobart sailor from Tassie.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-11439034528419543352015-09-27T01:13:00.000-07:002015-10-05T22:08:02.061-07:00Week 2 summaryDistance - 613 kms<br />
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-13142444907655828022015-09-26T23:21:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:59:57.414-07:00Day 15 - Big Chain Rings - Robinvale to Swan Hill<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fabulous day for cycling - light winds, blue skies, temps in the mid 20s, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no hills and bitumen roads. When conditions are like this, you grab the big chainring and turn as hard as you can for as long as you can. For us, that meant 135 km in about 6 1/2 hours at an average of better than 20 km/h. I've never travelled that far towing before, neither has Brian. Of course it was a pleasure to be towing the Kracka Adventure Series Looking for Ludwich Lychardt model bike trailer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robinvale is a top place. There are many first and second generation Australians here which makes it interesting. The road out of Robinvale has vineyards and orchards either side, all meticulously maintained. Seems to be a lot of money here. </span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-32104037703846293462015-09-25T23:02:00.001-07:002015-10-14T23:04:50.199-07:00Day 14 - Walking the Line - Mildura to Robinvale<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 5.30am roll call revealed that the sun gets up later in NSW. I packed in the dark whilst brother Tony made himself beautiful for the day ahead (you never know we might run into).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A slight breeze over the left shoulder allowed us to take our first fuel break at 40 out and enter Robinvale over the Murray at <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">12.30.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a windmill admirer from way back, I'm pleased to announce that Robinvale has "the largest windmill in the Southern Hemisphere"</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-77812302883004995282015-09-25T00:00:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:42:21.928-07:00Day 13 - Rest and Repair - Wentworth to Hudacks Bakery (Mildura)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 30 kms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a quick blast to Mildura today, for breakfast at houdacks bakery amongst other things. Today we would get some rest, sort through gear, get rid of everything no longer needed (since we're now on bitumen) and do a bit of bike repair. My bottom bracket has had some movement for several days now so Tracie has sent a new one from home to the Mildura post office for me to pick and get fitted somewhere in town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mildura is boot scooten' central with the Country Music Festival in full swing. There was some dude yodelling in the mall, there were thousands of people there to 'enjoy' it. We are tempted to ride back to Wentworth tonight to see the line dancing competition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were lucky to walk in to THE BEST bike shop in Mildura, Cycling Mythology, run by Richard Hale. Richard is just not running a bike shop, he is part of the cycling family. He dropped what he was doing to help us out. As it turns out I have lost a self extracting bolt somewhere between here and Timbuctu making it impossible to remove the crank. Thanks Richard for your help, he gave the bike a bit of a tune anyway pro bono. Much appreciated Richard. Cycling Mythology website is at: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">http://www.cyclingmythology.cc</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then off to Brians mates place, Evan Newell, to sort through all of our crap. Thanks Evan. We left a heap of gear there that we no longer need eg sand tyres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We reckon we have 10 more days riding to complete this trip. The conditions look quite favourable for the next week (light winds, temps in the mid-20's) so we may be able to shorten that. Our route will take us through Robinvale, Swan Hill, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Rutherglen (a day off there to drink booze) before we tackle the last three days of climbing to Mt K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had an absolute Barry Crocker today. The wind was strong and into our face. No energy whatsoever and I just could not get on top of it. 5 1/2 hours of this crap and my patience is wearing thin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, after about 1000 km of dirt, we saw the end of it today. It's bitumen all the way to Mount K. I'll be putting two slicks on the bike tonight, and pumping the buggers up as hard as they'll go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unbeknown to us, the country music Festival is on at Mildura this weekend, that will make accommodation, even a camping spot at the caravan park, difficult to find. Brian has a couple of mates in Mildura so it might mean that we end up camping on someone's front lawn. Fine by us.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-26762068085828650972015-09-23T22:45:00.001-07:002015-10-14T23:09:48.725-07:00Day 11 - More sand - Danggali to Lake Victoria<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 89</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a story going around that the worst of the sand was behind us. Well, don't believe everything you hear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is 67 kms to the main road through to Wentworth and pretty much 67 kms of it is dunes. There are some long bastards as well. There was a bit of swearing going on by the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At lunch, we changed over the sand tyres to enduros for the last 30 kms to camp. We picked a prominent Dune with a few trees to camp not far off the side of the road. Guess we were about 5 km from Lake Victoria, but too buggered to go and look. We reckon that the spot was used by aboriginals as a midden (?) as the sand was covered in thousands of shells, we surmise they bought up from the lake. Who knows? Fabulous camping spot with views for kms in every direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This being our last night eating from the food drops we celebrated with our favourite dish - little boys with a madras curry sauce and rice. Yum, a restaurant quality meal. Masterchef beckons for Brian, except he'd have to have a shave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Currently not a lot of landmarks to distinguish our exact location. Suffice to say, we are somewhere out on the flat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After an early rise, we dined on sausage rolls and Farmers Union iced coffee at the servo. Breakfast of champions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first 50 K's was through open range country until the final climb revealed what we are to expect for the next few days. It was so flat, you could see curvature of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was the first 3 digit total with the Kracka LFL model expedition trailer on tow. The Cyclemeter's version of the truth revealed 100.4 Km. May have had something to do with the packet of Twisties bonus on offer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A significant day for Tony. The mangina appears to have gone into remission. He also dragged the Jetboil out for lunch, in a futile attempt to convince himself that it is superior my Trangia stove. He did a good job of lunch however.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Butter chicken flavoured tinned savs and rice. Does it get any better than this?!</span><br />
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-4843276788507253512015-09-20T00:56:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:44:07.015-07:00Day 6 & 7: The destination, not the journey - Outouie Creek to Finns Creek<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 182 kms<br />Climbing - 320 metres</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />View Day 6 here: <a href="http://cyclemeter.com/4539622a02fdb662/Cycle-20150919-0645">http://cyclemeter.com/4539622a02fdb662/Cycle-20150919-0645</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've come up, across and over the range and are now back on featureless salt bush plain. Bloody head winds persist. The roads vary from good to awful. As we get to closer to Yunta, the roads just get worse. Endless kms of corrugations, rocks, potholes and washouts. It's tough on the bikes, backsides and psyche.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a matter of keep spinning and get to Yunta, as quickly as possible. Both nights we camped literally in the dirt, under a tree - nice. Very fresh overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is excitement in the crowd this evening as we are having rice and not pasta. Ham off the bone (actually leg ham out of a tin) with a madras chicken city spice paste - yum!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's only 50kms to Yunta tomorrow, for half a day off. Looking forward to some hot chips and a cold beer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It would be fair to say that the roads east of Ita Warta are overdue for some maintenance. It's been a while since a grader was out here. The section south of the ranger station at Balcanoona is particularly bad - bloody big rocks, gravel, corrugations, pot holes. Makes for tough work on the tredley!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fabulous camping spot in a creek, under a large gum tree in the middle of nowhere tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tea is fried spam in buttered chicken sauce with rice. A culinary triumph of bush cuisine. Check out the photos. Bet you wish you were here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In bed at sundown seeing who can spot the most satellites. No wind, bright stars, silence broken only by a donkey and goats in the far distance.</span></div>
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Tony Sandercockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04312906555217865606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3252365936386301129.post-31027030197160685672015-09-20T00:53:00.001-07:002015-10-14T22:44:49.120-07:00Day 4: First of the hills - Leigh Creek to Ita Warta<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distance - 64kms<br />Climbing - 420 metres</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View the ride here: <a href="http://cyclemeter.com/4539622a02fdb662/Cycle-20150916-0707">http://cyclemeter.com/4539622a02fdb662/Cycle-20150916-0707</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fabulous day of cycling. Ideal conditions, a cool start, hardly a breath of wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gravel road was generally good, with only a few corrugations. It was a steady climb. The hills are not big, but continually undulating and gaining altitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The landscape has changed from the barren of the desert to hills, rocky outcrops, gorges, scrub and stony creeks - it really is spectacular out here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Found a better rhythm today, and keeping a consistent pace. We stop every hour for 10 minutes to eat and drink. Seemed to work as felt very strong at rides end. Backside much better today as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ita Warta is an aboriginal community in the area. They've got a few camping options, we've gone for the tents (see photo below). They come with a camp bed. It's nice to not be on the ground for a change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we turn south. We'll be 3, maybe 4 nights to the next supply point at Yunta. Hopefully, we've dropped enough drinking water. While there isn't much traffic, many people stop for a chat or just to see if we need anything so we don't expect an issue if we run dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For food tonight, we've gone for little boys and pasta again - when you're on a good thing, stick to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A weather change came through in the evening, so wind blew all night. We rode into a very strong southerly all day. It was bloody hard work. The 20 odd kms into Lyndhurst was painfully slow and took a couple of hours. Was knackered when we got in to Leigh Creek, so we decided to stay in one of the workers dongas at the pub. it was pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leigh Creek was built by the Government 50 years ago to support the coal mine, which supplies the Port Augusta power station. The power station, and therefore the mine, is due to close soon, which will unfortunately mean the end of Leigh Creek. A pity, it seems a pretty good place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Body feels stressed at the moment as it tries to adapt to the workload. Elevated heart rate all night, probably dehydration. Digestion is slowing (don't feel as hungry) as body is learning to burn fat supplies (plenty to choose from with me!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am having the usual problems with my undercarriage/mangina, which was bloody sore by day's end. Went to the dispensary at the hospital for help. The pharmacist swore by Sudacrem and sorbelene. Soon find out if she's right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What should have been a tough 6 hours plus in the saddle was less than 5 hours thanks to a strong tail breeze. Temperatures rose to the mid 30's. The road was a mixture of sand, corrugations, loose gravel and hard clay. Rode through a dust storm as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived at Farina a bit after lunch. It was quite a bustling town in its day, but is now just ruins. It had a good camp ground though, with flushing dunnies and cold showers.</span></div>
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