Carabin Bush Camp to Yellowdine Bush Camp
After sitting around the Carabin roadhouse for a couple of hours, trying to make contact in order to get some accommodation organised, there was no answer to phone calls or door knocking. A local who had driven by came to check on me, only to say that the roadhouse was closed & no accommodation was available 🤷♂️....Bush camp it is 👌
Me, and the nation's quota of bush flies...🤣😞 they all cleared off once the sun set.
A comfortable camp despite being close to the highway and plenty of truck noise all night.
Back on the road early next morning with a plan to stop at Moorine Rock for coffee and cake...2nd breakfast 😋
I arrived just as they were opening, perfect timing. Coffee, sandwich, Coke and chocolate milk...breakfast of champions 🏆
Onwards to Southern Cross for lunch...anybody would think all cycling is about is finding more food to keep the engine running...they'd be right 🥖🫒🥫😋😋🥐
Pretty uneventful riding, still those small climbs but with better descents, motoring along quite nicely.
Southern Cross, and it's hit up the local IGA supermarket, restock, refill water, and a Bakery for more food 😋
It's a pretty hot day out here, my bike computer is saying it's 39°C. 🔥 an ice cold smoothie and meat pie should make the afternoon tolerable.
Just up the road at Yellowdine roadhouse , time for afternoon tea... 2 chocolate milks & a vanilla Coke for the requisite sugar fix to see out the next 40km before another bush camp.
Bath time in the bush....wipes to attempt some sort of sweat and dust clean-up 😵💫
Sunsets are pretty good out here.
(Dinner: 2 Wraps with chicken from a tin...Coffee and Scotch Finger biscuits 😋)
Livin' the life 👌
Another day dawns and it's back to the pedals....
A few years back, 2007, 3 fire-fighters lost their lives in bad bushfire around Boorabbin. A memorial to their service.
More rolling miles, good rotovelo terrain now... bolt down the hills & enough momentum to get most of the way up the next rise...this is what I came here for..
Time for lunch... double dose of Porridge, coffee and more biscuits 😋
Calories any way I can get them!
The afternoon is heating up again... 39°C indicated. .... stopped in the shade of the verandah at the defunct and closed Bullabulling roadhouse...this was closed when I rode through back in 2014, and it loos exactly the same....surprisingly not a lot of vandalism has occurred in that time.
Rolling on through the heat, I finally made it into Coolgardie...125km for today. 1st stop chocolate milk at the servo..campsite in the Coolgardie tourist park, just like I did in 2014. Not much has changed. IGA for resupply. Healthy dinner tonight, fresh from the microwave 😋 😆🤣 Shower, bed, and goodnight..
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