Day 166

Date:- 27 August 2010
Distance:- 102.63 Km
Distance to Date:- 9984.8 Km (Nearly There)
Start:- Lancelin Caravan Park
Finish:- Garry & Cheryl - Perth
Comment:- Up at 6.45 am and on the road by 8.30 am. Rode the 7.5 km back to the Indian Ocean Drive.

Heard planes exercising around the area and realised that Pearce Air Force Base is close by.

Sunny, cloudless sky with an easterly wind of 5 - 10 kt gusting to 15 kts. I felt reasonable comfortable with that.

There are clumps of wild flowers here and there but you have to look to find them. As I said before I am about 2 - 3 weeks too early. I am 80% of the trip. The road is undulating but not too bad.

At 40 km out was the turn off for Guilderson or Moore River Estuary where there is a caravan park and a road house. Stopped at the Moore River Rest Area where there are new toilets, a dump point for motor homes and a few table and chair setups. There was an Info board and a number of walking tracks.

I was then confronted with a 2 km stretch of roadworks and I was directed to ride up the work lane.

Stopped for my break at the Wilbinga Rest Area. No toilets, just seating and rubbish bins. This was 53 km out at 1 pm. While at the rest area I was approached by a gentleman who enquired about what I was up to. Promised to go on line and make a donation. He gave me a small bag of fruit.

Another 2 km stretch of roadworks again rode down the works lane so no real disadvantage. They are widening the road.
Around Yanchep there were pine plantations. It looks like a number of tree have been marked for harvesting.

I now have a north west wind (tailwind) but was only temporary. I enjoyed the ride through the Yanchep State Forest then into suburbia. The traffic has increased somewhat as I approach the northern suburbs of Perth. Gave Garry a ring as I was about 10 km out from Wannaroo and organised a meeting spot.

Met Garry at the nominated spot and loaded the bike and gear into his car for the drive back to their home in Huntingdale. There was traffic chaos in Perth as the train drivers had called a snap strike and the footy is in Subiaco.

Unloaded my gear at Garry and Cheryl’s house, had a very nice hot shower and a good feed of fish and chips and the odd glass of wine.

Hope to do all my washing tomorrow, visit the supermarket and maybe Anaconda and enjoy another day off.