Day 81 – 29th June 2013 - Esperance to
Norseman
We both slept well – it was not a bitterly
cold night and Walter told me he feels much better today and is ready to get on
that bike and pedal those 200 kms to Norseman. What a relief and what a
difference a day makes !!!
Cycling Stats: 203kms
Cycling Average: 27 kms per hour
He set off after a big bowl of warm museli
and a banana and I packed up and I mentioned that I was keen for a half hour
walk along the foreshore and Walter was happy for me to meet him at around the
60 – 70 km mark. There is nothing
nicer than being on the beach early morning in winter – crisp clear air and the
lovely blue waters of Esperance.
Then it was time to say goodbye to
Esperance – I would love to come back here one day. This town has a really good
feeling about it and there is, I am sure so much more to see. That is the thing
with this trip – we see so much but we always have to move on to the next place
& sometimes more quickly than we would like to.
I caught Walter at around the 47 km mark
which was I must admit, was sooner
than I had expected. He told me
that there was a bit of a head wind so no chance of the 30 + averages he was
used to. He was also taking things
a bit slower & easier to help his recovery. He asked me to drive another 20
kms down the road and then coffee time.
The landscape is still green grain fields
and some salt lakes and once we past Salmon Gums, a little place where we
stopped for our lunch break the landscape changed as we entered The Great
Western Woodlands which amazed us – is the largest untouched temperate woodland
in the world – it has numerous unique species of eucalypts and plants and
covers an area astoundingly the size of England (see photo of information sign
below).
Walter tells me that all in all it was a
pleasant ride – not as cold and the headwind lessened as the day wore on. But
it was a huge day – 7 hours in the saddle as he arrived here in Norseman at
3.30pm.
Thank you to the very friendly managers
Neil & Cassandra at Gateway Caravan Park at Norseman who gave us a lovely
site and looked after us so well.
Tomorrow is the beginning of a huge new
section of our journey – where we enter the famous Eyre Highway – the highway
that will take us all the way across the Nullarbor to Ceduna (South
Australia) (1,195 kms)
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| This information about this area amazed us |
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| Looking a lot happier today |
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| Noorseman - the iron camel sculptures as you enter Norseman |
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