Nullabor to Mundrabilla, Mundrabilla to Madura
Posted by cyclenullabor on April 7, 2009
After a slow-ish morning to Border Village, the rest of the day was quite pleasant. We stopped off 12k down the road in Eucla, where there are a lot of interesting historic bits and pieces to have a look at, including the old Telegraph Station.
Then a quick slide down the hill to the flat along the Hampton Tablelands and straight roads all the way.
One hazard of cycling is that there’s no escaping the fresh scent of road kill – and boy is there a lot along this stretch of road! Ugh entrails, revolting.
Mundrabilla is so completely in the middle of nowhere, but they’re so friendly and make you feel welcome. We thought we’d have the campsite to ourselves but of course some peeps rocked up, and we mistakenly set our tent up right under a light before it came on at night so that was unusual. Plus it poured with rain! But no damage done and the next morning we got the luxury of a bought hot breakfast before heading on our way to Madura.
Again flat flat flat, loads of incredible wedgetailed eagles so close to see and a delightful tailwind.
Unfortunately G made the number one traveller’s error of ordering seafood at the Madura roadhouse, which sadly resulted in a large technicolour yawn the next morning.
Poor thing, but he is a trooper, soldiering on with few complaints.
More asap…
The cliffs at the Great Australian Bight
Sarah said
look forward to anecdotes of small town living.
Sar
goosmurf said
Aaah, we should have chipped in to buy you guys a copy of this:
juliane said
… that can happen to you in hornsby as well. we had seafood for dinner on monday night and are now both down… we should just stay with those schnitzels…