Kurdardup

Augusta to Nannup, Day 4, Thursday 29 October 1992. This was to be the big challenge of the trip, the ride to Nannup along the Brockman Highway. I had worked out a short cut through Kudardup, instead of taking the main highway through Karridale. It only saved 3km but that’s a long way if one has an attack of cramp. The journey would be 87km.

FLASHBACK to 1981.

This was the last ride on which I had done this stretch, only that year I did it in the other direction, Nannup to Augusta. I had started at Bunbury, stopped at Donnybrook, then ridden to Nannup via Balingup. On Day 3 I set out, not being aware that a cold front was coming in, because I didn’t see any TV news or hear a forecast and didn’t bother as I should have about such things in those days.

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