Thursday, 6 August 2009
Lock
Lousy rough bitumen B road, horrid headwinds and hills forced me to abandon riding today at Lock just 91 kms from Elliston instead of Cleve (164 kms) where I had planned to get to. I'm heading for the ferry at Lucky Bay across the Spencer gulf to cut off 200 kms of riding via Port Augusta. Today rode over part of the high sheep country of the Eyre Penninsula. Apart from the wind which slowed my average down to 16 kph it was dry, sunny and 18 C. En route I was invited into a shearing shed to watch a couple of powerful Aussie brothers (Durdin) 'crotching' sheep ready for the shearers next week. For you townies that means shearing their bums of the shitty wool! Am booked in at the Boomerang (that rings a bell). The owner is the father of the shearers. He's promised to throw in a free cooked breakfast at 6.30 am. Probably cost me a bundle at the bar.
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Hey John you will be making Andy T jealous when he finds out about your shaggy sheep stories. You two can spend many hour comparing notes!!!! What was on the breakfast menu in the Boomerang??? Cheers Terry
ReplyDeleteBreakfast was a con. The landlord never rose....p one..double ss ed. His wife gave me a continental one...plenty of Milo...sort of hot chocolate with barley in it. Heard a lot of sheep stories last night but none admitted anything lewd. I give the sheep an Andy style baaaaa when riding pass. That normally starts a stampede....then I ting them with my bell and they then go bananas!! I haven't talked much about the weather....as I thought I'd leave that to Andy to tell everyone....
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