New chain as previous was 3/32 inch overlong over 12 inches, (reasonably worn), took the rear cluster off and cleaned it in turpentine, washed the bike, put on new pedals as right hand one was starting to wobble and wouldn’t …
Category: 2017 Cairns Darwin
Day 1 2020 03 15 Hong Kong
Wow, a lovely Farewell dinner at Del Amici in Perth with 35 friends. The friends supplied the bon homie, Bruce some transit dollars for Hong Kong and Vancouver and a couple of surgical anti-coronavirus masks,Rob Boggs a trip to the …
Adding the new gear
The bulk of my gear is as used on the previous rides but updated where necessary;
- a new tent – Big Agnes Mazanares 2; compared to my
18 year old OzExplorer ridge tent the Mazanares 2 is- lighter (1.3kg vs
AaaaaLlll Aboard! Transamerica
It starts with a few days in Vancouver, where else would you start riding across the USA? As I …
DAY 43 30 JULY RESTING AT ROPER BAR
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 …
DAY 67 AND ONWARDS EPILOGUE
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 …
DAY 66 22 AUGUST DARWIN !!!!!! ITS OVER
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 21 AUGUST THE ORCHID FARM, JAM AND SCONES, THE LAST NIGHT
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 …
DAY 64 20 AUGUST 20 PAST HUMPTY DOO AND THE SPECIAL CAMPSITE AT COOLINGA
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 …
DAY 63 19 AUGUST LEAVING LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK TO BERRY SPRINGS
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 …
DAY 62 18 AUGUST WANGI FALLS
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 …
DAY 61 17 AUGUST BATCHELOR AGAIN
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 …
DAY 60 16 AUGUST A LIFT OVER THE CROCODILES, SAND AND PAST TIPPERARY STATION TO THE LAST WILD CAMP
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 …
DAY 59 15 AUGUST CROCODILES, RAGING RANGERS AND SPRING FALLS
Getting a bit toe-y now as the end of the trip gets closer. Up and off across the tableland to the Tolmer Falls lookout. The falls and gorge are home to endangered bats so no entry but an interesting enough …
DAY 58 14 AUGUST LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK AND FLORENCE FALLS
Restocked at the town shop and the better provisioned service station we headed off to the Litchfield National Park. The joke in Batchelor is that Litchfield is a much better but less known park than Kakadu, which has so many …