Day 39 Sat 18 Jun 16, Albany fine and sunny, 2 to 17 deg. Lovely clear and chilly morning. While we waited for the thermometer to reach a respectable temp, above 10deg would be nice, we had a hot brekky to warm us up. By about 9am it had rocketed up to 7deg so we got on our bikes and off we rode. First we followed the bike path out to Emu Point where Wendy proceeded to fall off when we were taking a shortcut to another path. Luckily it was a slow-mo half-hearted ...

Day 38 Fri 17 Jun 16, Albany, cloudy but no rain, 10 to 15 deg. First job on the list this morning was to get the Mazda BT 50 serviced, as we just clocked up 20,000km on it. Greg dropped it off at Albany Mazda at 8am and then walked back to the van park which was only 2km. Wendy had the clothes washing in full swing by this time and was working too; that's women for you, multitasking. With Wendy very busy, Greg took off on the bike for a recon around Albany. Stra...

Day 37 Thurs 16 Jun 16, Esperance to Albany 478km, showers, 9 to 15 deg. Up early and after a quick brekky we were on the road again, Hwy 1, heading West. First stop was Ravensthorpe, 170km, for a cuppa. As there were showers and drizzle nearly all the way to Albany we didn't stop again till we reached the van park at 1:35pm. Despite the fact that we were on Hwy 1 the road wasn't too flash at all. Narrower than every other WA road we'd been on and quite a rough s...