Kelmscott, Western Australia

Nov 24, 2012

There's No Place Like Home! Esperance to Perth Saturday 24 Nov 2012 Last night we got a worrying call from Adrian my son, the father of little 3 year old Orlena who has been badly head-injured in August. She wasn't doing so well with her health, and so of course we were worried sick. Also Dave's dear little 88 year old Mum is having a hip replacement in Bunbury next Wednesday on the 27th November, so we both realised it is time to finish our holiday for now an...

Esperance, Western Australia

Nov 23, 2012

West Australian newspaper, Harvey Fresh milk and no time zones! - 20th - 23rd November Finally back into the WA time zone and no more calculating what time it is in the West if we are about to ring home. There was no rush to head off early from Balladonia as the weather was going to be cool and the distance to Esperance was comfortable. I have always enjoyed the travel between Balladonia and Norseman with the undulating road, sweeping bends and changing country...

Balladonia, Western Australia

Nov 20, 2012

Riding Through a Furnace: The Nullarbor. Mon 19 Nov 2012 Dave and I rode out of Streaky Bay at 7am, temperature 14 degrees. Nice and cool motorbiking weather through Ceduna, to Nundroo Roadhouse. Then as we got further into the big treeless Nullarbor Plain the temperature started climbing, as we had expected. Even though we could see the Great Australian Bight to the left of us it was still steaming hot, and got up to 43 degrees with no sea breeze from the ta...

Venus Bay, South Australia

Nov 18, 2012

Beautiful Venus Bay and Murphy's Haystacks, SA. Sun 18 Nov 2012. We did our own mini-Ulysses Sunday ride today….just the 2 of us, along the Eyre Peninsula coastline between Streaky Bay and Venus Bay, 72km apart. Matthew Flinders in 1802 described Streaky Bay because of the algae causing streaks in the Bay, and Venus Bay is apparently named after a schooner ship in the late 1800s. The village of Venus Bay is like an organised clean and tidy new version of Coob...

Streaky Bay, South Australia

Nov 17, 2012

Wudinna to Streaky Bay, SA. Thank Goodness For Google! Sat 17 Nov 2012. We were at the Wudinna Tyre place at 8.30am, and great relief, the bike tyre for Dave's bike was ready to be fitted, after having been trucked overnight from Port Augusta, thanks to our guardian angel racing car men yesterday. The young man who was to do the tyre fitting looked real nervous….yesterday he said he wasn't used to fitting motorbike tyres. This place mostly has huge tyres for ...