Packing etc

Back on deck after a short severe bout of gastro. No bike riding for the past few days but have been packing and unpacking trying different combinations of loading. Sorting the everyday use things from the lesser used items.

Purchased my cooking set, metho based stove, two saucepans and a frying pan. Very compact little unit. Also quite a bit of dehydrated food was purchased.

I have been trying to work out which would be of more use to me when out of mobile phone range - a satellite phone or a PLB (Personal Location Beacon) I have elected to go for a PLB. As someone pointed out a Satphone is no good with flat batteries. I will have no way of charging batteries in the outback.

For those of you who may not know my departure date is 14Th March from our home in Geelong. Up to Canberra for Easter, Cairns by early June, and home by late November