Merredin to Northam 165km
Posted by cyclenullabor on April 16, 2009
Prayers were answered with another tailwind making our trip too good to be true. Garrett made sure to eat at every opportunity today and it had cooled off a bit so we were very happy as we pedalled along.
Rain falls over WA
We found an open cafe and were given a free serving of fries by the owner, an old bikie who was very friendly but may have been extremely scary in his day!
Even the rain didn’t dampen our spirits, this was the first time the skies had truly opened up but we took it easy and kept out of the way of the cars that whizzed past us on their way back into the city.
And then some p***k decided he’d be funny and throw a half full bottle of soft drink at us, which hit Garrett in the hand. Words cannot describe how upsetting this was. You can probably imagine how we felt so I won’t go on, but suffice to say it would have been very easy to let that ruin the entire day. Strangely, a police car came past a couple of minutes later so we told them what happened and they went tearing off down the Highway, happy to have something to do. Hope they caught the stupid tosser.
The Northam caravan park seems to be residents mainly… hmm. But we met another couple who had been cycling around for 8 months! They didn’t do the Nullarbor though, so nowhere near as hardcore as us!
