Day 53: June 23rd Poochera to Wirrulla SA.
Esther: 51 days on the road and still smiling!
The days keep progressing 53 now since we left Crescent Head on 2nd May, and here we are now only two days ride from Ceduna SA and only 13 days from SA/WA border. Last night were hosted at Poochera Hotel and Caravan park and had a good night meeting up with some locals, having a delicious counter meal and and ripper hot shower! Joe gave the schnitzels ’10 out of 10 on his Schnitzel meter!’ Only have a 46km day today so ‘troops’ still enjoying some shut eye at 6.45 but will be up by 7am. It’s still pitch dark here, and raining gently. Esther may have something to say about that! The days keep melding one to the other, but the people we meet are what defines this journey. We have ‘turned the page’ on our itinerary and have definately entered the second stage of this trek. After we leave Ceduna we have 30 days to Kalgoorli crossing the Nullabor. … we’re as ready as we’ll be, horses fighting fit. New horse Surprise is going well and fitting in with Titan and Meg. He’s a tough little fella and give 100%.
A massive thank you to our sponsor David Wallis from Manuka Chaff in Quiriindi NSW for organising a co-sponsor in WA as we now have to surrender our lucerne products; cereal chaff and Horsilage at Eucla on Day 66. It was hoped we’d be able to at least take the Horsilage with us in WA but only found out last Friday that wasn’t possible.
We’ve been going through fantastic wheat belt country and two days ago got caught up in tremendous gale force winds and rain before Wuddinna. Gusts were above 80kms-100kms per hour.
Dust storms out of Wudinna SA.
Lets pray the weather is kind to us and the roadside abundant with feed and water! Our challenge is monitoring water for horses and us over the next month. We carry 400 litres total on the truck (100 of that human grade water) and our challenge is making the 300 last 3 days for the 3 horses. Making every drop count!
June 24th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Hi Joe hows the can collecting going , dont forget milk cartons and yakult bottles. Keep on scrapping. if you find a motor for my international 414 can you drop it off at roseworthy on your way home , thanks champ. good luck. Ralph and Elaine. and Zed
July 13th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Hi Crew
How are things going. have you got across the Nullabor yet ? i don’t know weather you got my note saying that I will have a XL shirt and a total cost and where to pay plz
look forward to hearing from you
Regards Liz