Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Day 170

Date:- 31 August 2010
Distance:- 41.40 Km
Distance to Date:- 10081.0 Km
Start:- Kirup Caravan Park
Finish:- Bridgetown Caravan Park
Comment:- Cooked tea in my tent last night, then into bed about 7.30 pm and listened to the radio for a while before falling asleep. I awoke a number of times through the night to the sound of rain on my tent. I am hoping it clears by morning.

At 6 am when I got up, the sun was beginning to rise in a partly overcast sky. I was on the road by 7.15 am travelling through some rather hilly country with patches of fog in the valleys. Through the town of Mullalyup and onto Balingup where I stopped for a coffee and toasted raison bread.

Quite a few hills now that need “special” treatment. A sign on the side of the road informs me I have crossed over the highest part of the Darling Escarpment. I knew there had to be a reason.

A lot of tree farming (pine plantations) and grazing country I have travelled through in the latter part of the day.

Arrived in Bridgetown and went to the Visitor Centre in an endeavour to find out what lies ahead of me. I was told that Manjimup is only 35 km away but there are two rather large hills to negotiate and it looks like a few showers are forecast for the afternoon. I decided to stay in Bridgetown.

Booked into the local caravan park, put my tent up and down came the rain. The caravan park has a good camp kitchen so as soon as the rain cleared I went into town and got a couple of items for tea.

Back to camp and had a shower, washed a couple of things out then did my diary. Had a most welcome phone call from Tony and Pam who are somewhere near Penong at the east end of the Nullarbor.

Tomorrow, provided the weather is fine I will head for Manjimup

1 comment:

  1. Hi Geoff,

    you are in a particularly beautiful part of Australia at the moment so I hope you enjoy cruising through at a pace that allows you to take it all in; even if your progress is slow on some days. Bound to be quite a contrast to the upcoming trip across the nullabor.

    All the best, Don.

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