Everyone is a bit subdued this morning due to lack of sleep. No fault of their own, this time, as the miners decided to have a party/BBQ in the camping ground last night (which management knew about) and they informed us that it would wind up around 8.30 pm. This was not believed so the riders all moved their tents away from the BBQ area to an area closer to the road. The problem being, now they were stuck in the middle of the miners and the trucks going over the bridge. Most of the miners did finish up around 9 pm but there were 4 or 5 that stayed on and partied until around 2 am. They were probably louder than the larger group but no-one from the roadhouse came and asked them to finish up.
Today was going to be a long day of 158 kms and we were hoping the winds would be in our favour. Up till morning tea the wind was light and the temperature was cool. But after morning tea, everything changed. They had a full on head wind and it was a real struggle. They were all struggling and Jill was still worried about the 4 km dirt road into Giralia at the end of the day. They ended up finding the riding today as the hardest so far this trip. The road into Giralia had just been graded (or half of it) and so it was a reasonably smooth ride into the property.
Collis and I were feeling sorry for the riders today so we were going to surprise them with a room each on the property BUT when we arrived there were no rooms available. A group of road workers were staying there and they were also having meals catered for so we were out of luck in both camps.
At Giralia they have a great huge kitchen for the campers so it was quite a pleasure to prepare tonight's dinner of vegetarian chilli con carne and then Collis made them pancakes with jam, honey, lemon juice, sugar and walnut toppings. Unfortunately we had no cream. Jurgen took over for the second round of pancakes and it was a nice night.
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