Day three of our 9 Regions Run coincidentally was my 60th birthday. We started the day with breakfast in the mess at Leinster Village - a wonderful place and I still miss it after working there for 9 months in 2005. The plan had been to ride out through Wiluna then to Meekatharra and on to Newman. When I learned that the road included 125km of rough dirt I decided to go the long way via Mt Magnet - apparently 145km further. Well, we started late after that br...

2020 - the year of travel restrictions. Here in Western Australia we are fairing better than most and our government has gone from restricting us to our home region to now extolling us to "wander out yonder" and go see the regions. So that's pretty much what I have done. WA is divided into 9 administrative regions and last week Sandra and I set of on a trip we've named the 9 Regions Run. Commencing from our home in Narrogin in Wheatbelt Region, we load...

I've told a little porky here - to tell the truth we're not in Tassie anymore, we crossed the straight yesterday and I'm sitting in Melbourne waiting for the washing machine to do its work. Yes our 2012/13 accidental Taswegian Tour has ended. It has been a very successful tour, nothing serious went wrong and importantly we kept the rubber side down and made it back to the boat in one (alright, two) piece(s). Highlights of our tour were meeting the people along ...

Last night we pitched the tent on the seaside just east of a hamlet called Penguin. It's easy to find a campsite is Tas, all you do is look for more than two RVs parked in a spot and put your tent alongside. People have been very kind and friendly toward us and often help us out with battery charging, refrigeration and the odd cooking ingredient, not to mention a coffee and cake occasionally. Most of the RV crew are on the road long term and are set up to live ...

Survived the road from Derwent Bridge to strachan in the rain. The vegetation has grown back a lot since my last run down the Queenstown road feels like a different place. Strachan is worse now though - tourist trap. We took the local advice and camped out at MacQuarrie Heads. Lovely sheltered spot complete with resident possum. The pic shows the bike at Hells Gates with the tourist boat in the background - probably the same one that was new last time I was here....