Day 14: Munglinup to Esperence

Great night although there was a couple arguing in the middle of the night which woke the camp. Not sure who it was but they were quite loud. Poor old Di has a cold and was coughing a lot of the night- she doesn't sound good. Sam stayed with us last night and is anxious to get to Esperence to get his bike fixed. He has another day in the car with Collis before this happens.

Peter was up early and what Collis and I thought were local indigenous people making noise at 6 am turned out to be the local shearers over at the roadhouse buying their daily grog supply before work. We had to put the generator on early so that we could boil water for breakfast and morning tea supplies. Only one complaint and that was from one of our own riders.

Canola fields all morning giving the scenery a lovely yellow hue which is quite spectacular against the dark grey clouds. No rain as yet but looks threatening. Lots of Port Lincoln parrots flying around. Road still undulating but nowhere near as bad as a few days ago.

Him and Fran ended up riding for approximately an hour in the rain but everyone else seemed to have missed it. The sky opened up as soon as we got here and rained on and off all evening and night. I'm certainly glad I brought my umbrella (much to Collis' disgust) but he has been using it tonight.

Most of us went out to the pub for dinner and met up with Sam and his mate John. John has already fixed Sam's bike and they are heading out tomorrow to Salmon Gums. The boys want to stay a day ahead of us just in case something else goes wrong.