Beautiful Venus Bay and Murphy's Haystacks, SA. Sun 18 Nov 2012. We did our own mini-Ulysses Sunday ride today….just the 2 of us, along the Eyre Peninsula coastline between Streaky Bay and Venus Bay, 72km apart. Matthew Flinders in 1802 described Streaky Bay because of the algae causing streaks in the Bay, and Venus Bay is apparently named after a schooner ship in the late 1800s. The village of Venus Bay is like an organised clean and tidy new version of Coob...

Wudinna to Streaky Bay, SA. Thank Goodness For Google! Sat 17 Nov 2012. We were at the Wudinna Tyre place at 8.30am, and great relief, the bike tyre for Dave's bike was ready to be fitted, after having been trucked overnight from Port Augusta, thanks to our guardian angel racing car men yesterday. The young man who was to do the tyre fitting looked real nervous….yesterday he said he wasn't used to fitting motorbike tyres. This place mostly has huge tyres for ...

Serendipity Strikes Again, Fortunately! Friday 16 Nov 2012 Naughty Back Tyre. Port Augusta to Wudinna, SA. Dave and I set off from our comfy Port Augusta cabin at 8am, with nice cool weather for riding. We have been very lucky with good weather at this time of the year; this makes exploring/hiking so much easier for us. Today our plan was to ride to Streaky Bay for a few days' rest before heading across the Big Paddock to Bunbury region. Our first detour t...

Unfinished business in Port Augusta - 14th & 15th November 2012 Having considered in the past that Port Augusta was a one night stop town, we will have now spent 7 nights there. We had enjoyed our previous two times and decided that we had unfinished business and still wanted to visit the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens. This time we went to a different caravan park where we could get a cabin for $55 / night. Turned out to be an excellent ensuite cabin with the...

A New Tent! Thurs 8 Nov 2012 After riding away from a Port Augusta cabin on a cool morning, we finally found a tent that suits our motorbiking needs, at Port Pirie. On special too, as luck would have it for $229 which is basically the price of 2 nights in a cabin. We are planning to be back home by 7th December, so we need a tent that will get us through to this time. The patched up old tent that was brand new in February this year just wasn't going to last th...