Day 53

Date:- 6 May 2010
Distance:- 48.88 Km
Distance to Date:- 2750.8 Km
Start:- Granite Creek Rest Area
Finish:- Bororen Caravan Park
Comment:- A lot of traffic, mainly trucks I think, avoiding the caravans on the road, by travelling at night. The Rest Area was a bit of a sound shell. Sounded like trucks were about to run over you although they were 300 metres away.

Despite the noise I had a reasonable nights sleep. I was awoken by kookaburras in the tree directly above me about 5.30am Crawled out of bed about 6am, had breakfast, packed up and on the road by7.45am. Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind about 18’. Not bad to start a day on.

The road varied like yesterday, some bad sections and some excellent sections, and I would have to say Victorian and New Souith Wales roads leave Queensland roads for dead.

About 15 km out from the rest area a man on a two wheel recumbent caught up to me, had a quick chat and he was on his way, a man of very few words. Wanted to know if I had a joining link for a SRAM chain as he was breaking chains this morning.

Had my snack break in another truck stop about 10.30am and after a couple more hills I rode into Miriam Vale. A reasonable sized town and quite busy. I didn’t stop here because my destination was only another 15 km down the road.

A slow climb out of Miriam Vale then the road flattened out and I arrived in Bororen and found the caravan park and booked in. First thing I did was gather all my washing including what I wore today and put them in the washing machine. Pitched my tent, had a shower, dressed my wound from the other day, hung my washing out to dry then down to the shops. Lunch and tea organised. Back to camp, do my diary and generally take it easy.

I found today not as taxing as yesterday. I placed a folded handkerchief inside my right hand glove and that certainly eased the pain, still had a little problem of downshifting. I must have pulled a muscle in my upper right chest as it was hurting today. Took my Hydration pack off and that certainly eased the pain. It also hurts if I cough.

Tomorrow is another short day as I head for Mount Larcom.