Up at 5am - packed up and left early as the start of Walter's ride is from the turn-off to the resort which is around 11kms drive over the red corrugated dirt track back to The Great Northern Highway.
Today's ride is through a remote area called The Great Sandy Desert - the renown unpredictable strong gusty winds could prove a challenge as the wind direction can be all over the place in this part of Western Australia.
Cycling Stats: 245 ams
Cycling Average: 30.5 kms per hour
YES the winds this day lived up to their reputation as there were very strong West Coast cross winds making the day's cycling very challenging but for the last 60kms they settled into a great assisting tailwind.
This was a long day in the saddle as we arrived at Eighty Mile Caravan Park at around 3.30pm.
The landscape was same same same - low scrubby vegetation & grasslands - but huge skies amazing and very vast panaromic views to the horizon.
After setting up camp we went down to check out this huge wide beach which was covered in large expanses of millions of shells - 99% of them white in all shades and sizes of white and very crunchy underfoot. We were glad to be wearing sandals.
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| Iconic Sandfire Roadhouse |
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| Huge goanna scurried off the road on our way to Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park |
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| Eighty Mile Beach at low tide |
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