Day 3 | 10km past Toodyay: it's been an up, up, down and up sort of day
60 km | zzOz total: 139 km
More farewells today.
Had last night with Seb and Fleur at their strawbale house in the jarrah/grasstree forest near the Avon National Park, Seb being insistent I have a glass of wine before I head east. (We had 18 nights together biking the Tanami and ending up in Purnululu National Park almost exactly 2 years ago.)
It’s bike city up there with his Gunbarrel Highway smasher and Fleur’s few recumbents, one done duty in Iceland.
Fleur is saying her own farewell to her last Combi, the new owner arrives with a large wad of cash and we load the extra engine aboard his mate’s ute.
Then it’s time for Seb to mount up and ride the first 10km with me, the wind is still 30km/hour, no easy ride this. Hey, see you in Alice team!
A word of explanation here.
There’s a fierce NE wind for the last 3 days. I’m heading to Cape Leeuwin which is due south. Sounds good.
But.
You’d better get used to my fly in a bottle trajectory. Instead of 3 days heading south on that Kwinana freeway bikepath, ie, pedalling to said cape with a huge tailwind, I’m smashing my way NE straight into the NEer, over hill and dale.
It’s rare that I pursue the A to B direct route as you will come to realise.