Good Morning World!
Day 36
5 May 2009
Woomera to 5km from Coober Pedy
111.34km
Total Riding Time: 6hours 51minutes (LT)
Some sugar and cremes for the morning
Today we’ll be attempting to ride as much as we can along WC road towards Coober Pedy. It’s almost always the same problem-running low on food. Our food supplies would only last us for another 3 meals and there is still 4 meals ahead of us. So the key word today is ration.
Sometimes the surrounding can be extremely monotonous. Spotting a truck tire along the way creates excitement…at least there is something that stands out and look different!
That’s the morning tea break spot for today. Shades are always good out here.
More rocket testing up the skies. This one is blasting across on top of our heads…Close call
As we rode along towards noon, we met the tour bus again. This tour bus runs tours from Coober Pedy to William Creek and back. Mr tour guide was very generous in offering us fresh drinking water from his loaded bus. The tourists on the bus wanted a photo. So we requested a photo from them too. In the meantime many questions were shot at us but there were a nice bunch of people.
That’s a massive crater like depression on the ground. Wonder what sort of artillery blew such a big hole here. This spot would be a good spot to camp for the night but it was still too early in the day. For comparison Anh is in the crater (blue pants).
One of the more spectacular terrain along this route is the Moon plain. The moon plain is famous for it’s eerie moonscape like surrounding. It’s nothing for many miles and as far as the eye can see. Littered dark brown gibber stones are scattered throughout this vast plains.
Cycling astronauts on Moon Plain. Anh is living his childhood dream.
Many movies were filmed in this area. The more famous ones are Mad Max & Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
We met the incredible dog fence again. The battered looking dog fence signage. Probably this signage would have served as a rifle target practice looking at the holes on it. Smart improvisation out here.
Dog Fence Acrobats. Dingo jumping over the fence
It’s 20km to Coober Pedy
Today was a long ride for both of us. Headwinds was quite mild and we were cruising along at about 16km/hr which is good on the unsealed track. We were mentally drained from the monotonous surrounding throughout most of the day. The moon plain was a good diversion for the mind.
We decided to set up camp along a dried creek bed. Looking at our food supplies, it would be enough for dinner tonight. However it’s just about 5km from the next big town. We could get breakfast there tomorrow morning.
We were excited with the fact that we’ll be enjoying more facilities tomorrow after about 5 days of remoteness. Conversations for the night was filled with anticipation of what to expect in the next town, how good are the supermarkets, some clean clothes for laundry and a good shower. Basic stuff but it’s a luxury for us out here at that time.
