SMOKY BAY SA
DAY 70
STREAKY BAY – SMOKY BAY
80.97 km
Total Time: 09.10 – 14.10 (5h)
Time on Bike: 3h 56m 56s
Max. Speed: 40.1 km/h
Av. Speed: 20.5 km/h
Tomorrow will be my final day on the Eyre Peninsula with only 40 km into Ceduna.
The Nullabor Plain beckons so close and part of me is eternally tempted and fascinated about the prospect of a Nullabor crossing.
Part of me also knows that it will still be there next year and the year after that and probably even in 10 years time.
I can make up all kinds of justification for making a decision one way or another, but ultimately a decision is made and that’s it really.
I don’t need to regret anything at the end of the day.
Smoky Bay is a dusty little outpost with nothing in particular to keep me here, although once again I have enjoyed the sociability of utilising the local caravan park - the campfire this evening was particularly magnetic.
Fishing is the main game in town, as it has been in most of the townships along the way but here there is literally nothing else to do.
Venus Bay was similarly peaceful – there is however a difference between peace, quiet and boredom.
Boredom is surely the ugly cousin amongst these and I need not know about it, especially as I travel alone.
So pedal onwards I must, towards the greater horizon and wherever it may lead.
Next stop Ceduna – end of the old and beginning of the new.
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