New Norcia to Bindoon 1990

New Norcia to Bindoon, day 6, Saturday 3 November 1990. I left New Norcia at 7:42. The morning was fine and cool with a light headwind, which wasn’t to freshen until it didn’t matter. There were steep hills. One started near the seven mile well nature reserve. Another long climb ended in a sign saying ‘Bindoon Hill, 285m’. I had got up without stopping. I rested at 20017 and 20033. Much blue leschenaultia on the roadside.

Bindoon

I reached Bindoon Hotel at 10:42. It is 4km north of the town proper, so I dumped the heavy luggage and rode to the shops to get a paper, some milk and food for breakfast and some tangelos from a roadside seller. Rested back at the motel ($30 for a small room with its own plumbing but little else) then went for a walk down to the Brockman River, (flowing well) and back. The bridge carrying the Gingin Road over the river would buck every time a vehicle went over it, and vibrate for some time afterwards.

Back at the motel I had rissoles for tea and watched TV in the lounge. I went to bed at about 11 but was kept awake by the drunks till well after midnight. A flock of sheep went by in the darkness near the motel, with the high bleat of a lamb audible above the deeper ones of the others. A relaxing sound.

I woke about 5 to a splendid dawn chorus. Some calls sounded as though from exotic birds kept at the motel. I dozed off again.

Reading at Bindoon Motel: 20047. End of day: 20057. Corrected day’s ride: 57km. Cumulative: 379km. Average km/day: 63.

New Norcia to Bindoon 1990

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