… and they’re off. I can’t believe it’s finally come. It seemed to take forever.
I had originally planned on heading up through Geraldton and staying at Galena Bridge about 100km further north. With the crap weather leading up to departure I was watching carefully. When I woke I decided that inland would be better. It would still be raining to start with, but would clear up earlier.
There was really on a 30 minute section where it bucketed down – other than that it was pretty good, just the odd shower.
Quick brekky stop at Bindoon Bakehaus…
It was cold though. I had my wet weather gear on for most of the trip just to keep the wind out.
My initial plan was to stop at Mount Magnet, but since I made it in plenty of time I decided to keep going on to Cue.
As I arrived I could see a spot of rain coming in the distance, so I rushed to get the tent up. Foolishly I wasn’t paying attention when I parked the bike on the grass – the footpeg was on a little mound keeping the bike almost vertical. One gust of wind and over she went…. My poor baby!
Right-hand side mirror was smashed, and the plastic cover had 1 or 2 bits broken off. So, the only thing I could do was to discard the mirror (it would have been too distracting otherwise), and use 100mph tape to hold the cover in place. It will do for now, but will need replacing when I get home.
Not many photos due to the weather, but quite a few videos on the ride. It might be a while before they appear on YouTube.