Day 215

Date:- 15 October 2010
Distance:- 31.74 Km
Distance to Date:- 12952 Km
Start:- Catalina Caravan Park - Port Fairy
Finish:- Warrnambool Holiday Park
Comment:- After I had completed my diary and blog for the day I went to the café and ordered my tea. As I mentioned yesterday, the park owners, Lloyd and Janet, had given me a voucher to cover the cost of my tea. I thank you very much.

Enjoyed my tea while watching a bit of telly then off to bed about 8 pm. Had a good sleep only to be awoken by the sound of rain on the tent in the early hours of the morning. No sign of any water ingress. The rain stopped temporarily about 7.30 am so I got up and had breakfast in the camp kitchen. Back to the tent to pack and get ready for the road.

I hadn’t avoided the water because as I rolled up my mattress up water had seeped in somehow, maybe through the seam in the floor.
Packed up everything carefully and ready for the road.

Stopped at Reception to say goodbye to Lloyd and Janet. They then gave me a nice donation to the Asthma Foundation as their young son is an asthmatic. Again thank you for your hospitality and donation.

On the road by 9 am and although I was only riding 30 km to Warrnambool it was quite a hard ride. The road wasn’t too bad. It was the strong wind of about 25 - 30 kts from the south west that created the problem. It was blowing across the road right to left and I was having trouble keeping the bike on the road. Every car and truck effected the wind flow as well. The scattered showers of rain added to the mix.

Out of Port Fairy, through Killarney, over Tower Hill, past the Tower Hill Cemetery and onto Warrnambool. The caravan we had booked was on the Geelong side of Warrnambool. Evon is driving from Geelong and meeting me here, and we will spend the weekend together. Something I am looking forward to and I am sure she is too.