DAY 75 - WUDINNA SA

WUDINNA SA

DAY 75

WIRRULLA - WUDINNA

132.92 km

Total Time: 09.00 – 17.30 (8h 30m)

Time on Bike: 6h 48m 12s

Max. Speed: 38.1 km/h

Av. Speed: 19.5 km/h


I intend to relinquish soothsaying and stay solid with prayer.

Everything that was supposed to happen today didn’t.

Instead, I have been gifted yet another 120 kilometres of tailwinds, so I guess I’ll take it.

Clear skies and 19ºC was the scene for the day.

The only thing set to piss me off then, was the hilly terrain.

This section of the Eyre Highway runs along the foot of the Gawler Ranges for 100 km or more.

These aren’t gigantic mountain passes at all, just merely a lot of extended climbing and a general lot of up and down,

And at day’s end, it wasn’t really so bad.

Slow in parts, but I handled and all in good time.

Whilst on the topic of the Eyre Highway, I am now on my 2nd day of transit along National Highway 1 and if there is a quieter and more sparsely trafficked National arterial road anywhere in the world. I would be interested to hear about it.

I seriously have this road to myself for anything up to 30 minutes at a time in parts.

A little busier this afternoon, but hardly the heavy, unforgiving barrage I may have expected.

This area is South Australia’s wheat belt, so every town has a big white silo as its centrepiece.

They are actually quite becoming in the Eyre Highway aesthetic and they sure give me a good idea of distances, as they can normally be seen from about 10 km out.

Wudinna is one of the bigger centres between Ceduna and Port Augusta amongst a family of small and sleepy wheat-belt hamlets along the way.

I am now a little under halfway back to PA.

It will still only be a one-nighter here and then onto Kimba tomorrow.

One more stop again beyond this and I should be home and hosed by the weekend.