
After breakfast in Tom Price we had a …
Straggling Stu – Slow bicycle trips across Australia
The joy of slow travel by bicycle

After breakfast in Tom Price we had a …

Today was a rest day and a chance to take a tour of the Tom Price iron ore mine. This …

Paraburdoo has a good supermarket so we loaded up with several 600 ml cartons of chocolate milk each and a few sundries to nibble on the way before heading off to Tom Price, the …
About 25 kms from Cheela a car pulling a small caravan was stopped on the road ahead of us. As we pulled up the occupants waved us down and offered cold cans of soft drink. Heaven! They turned out to …

After 21 hours on the bus from Perth we arrived at the Nanutarra Roadhouse at about 4 pm yesterday. After finding a spare …
Its that time of year again, slightly cooler during the day in the northern part of Australia so StragglingStu is heading north again.
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Stu of course! As the days shorten …
Being absolutely knackered we stayed in the Roper River caravan park for a day. Quite basic (only a small solar panel to power a string of fairy lights in the amenities block and a small solar water heater) but clean …
We spent the next few days variously packing up our gear and exploring Darwin.
The first two days were about eating as our bodies caught up on depleted reserves, then it was about visiting various museums (the air museum with …
A delayed start as we sifted through our accumulated detritus from the road ditching water bottles, plastic bags, old resort brochures, old food and so on.
A final few photos of us and our rigs and then on to the …
DAY 65 AUGUST 21 THE ORCHID FARM, JAM AND SCONES, THE LAST NIGHT
After breakfast Brian and Christine set off for the 8 kms to the Orchid Farm for a look-see and tea and scones. I did the washing and …
Up reasonably early in the morning to compete for breakfast room in the camp kitchen (taken over by two Swiss families who were winding up their Australian desert trip, nice trip but be a bit more considerate of other campers …
Leaving Wangi it was a quick ride along the bottom of the scarp on the western edge of the NP until re-entering the NP and climbing back onto the top of the tableland. Then down and out of the Litchfield …
The ride back through the middle of Litchfield NP to the Litchfield-Daley River turnoff was a lot easier the second time around. While chewing on a 600 ml frozen chocolate milk for lunch a NP ranger pulled up to check …
Quickly back on the bitumen and soon turned north on Dorat Road for Batchelor. About twenty kilometres along near a private Land for Wildlife nature reserve I was a bit slow reacting to wiggle on the road and ran over …
Back out over the sandy track onto the main 4WD track which was mostly rideable if only two wheel ruts in some places for 10 km until the Reynolds River crossing.
Rangers Helga and Darius had made me promise not …