adelaide to the great ocean road

starting of the great ocean road

lol

THE BORDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice vista after the desert

pelicans just before the great ocean road

the pink lake

after a very nice rest with my rescue team in Adelaide I kept going direction the Great Ocean Road . I didn't want to do it when I started in Darwin but I changed my mind on the way and because my rescue team ( during the track in the desert) told me it was very flat and I will have a tailwind, I thought:" ok let's go"

But actually it was the hardest part of all my trip, a strong sidewind, it was raining and it's very very hilly but it was beautiful and maybe it was hard but I will not complain at all. the most beautiful ride I did in 4000 km.

I'm just going to canberra and sydney now because I have to change my mind and to think about all I did...

so I will update my blog in a week with more details ....see you

william Creek to adelaide...

I will finish later, I have to go....

the famous pub of william creek, one of the smallest town in Australia, 7 or 8 people but about 2 000 000 flies...and a little airport

bad bad luck

hi,

I can tell you very proudly that I just lost 500 pictures about my trip when I was trying to take it off my mp3 player. these pictures were taken between Alice Spring and William Creek, about 1000 km.

all the pictures I will put above this post will be after william Creek to Adelaide...or near Adelaide.

quick news

just to tell you I'm still alice and i had a big trouble in the desert, I broke again my back wheel in the middle of nowhere I have had to wait 2 hours in the desert before to see a car coming, actually it was 3 4WD and they gave me a lift of 75 km, the closest place, a town with 8 peoples, William Creek. I left all my stuff and my bike too in the town and decided to go with my rescue team in Port Augusta because it was on their way to go back home, about 700 km from William Creek. I bought a new wheel and tonight I going to catch a bus to go to coober Pedy and after I will try to find a car who is going to William Creek, 180 km from Coober Pedy.

I will do 1500 km just to fix my bike, I don't have time to put pictures but in few days you will have plenty...

tomorrow I will continue the track in the desert....

see you soon

Alice pring to...

I left Alice Spring the 31 of august at 3 AM, I know it's in the middle of the night, I did 172 km this day and the day after and today I did 130 km and 161 km, so I drove 463 km in 3 days, That's impressive but I had a very very good tailwind and today, my average speed, excluding all my stopss was close to 26 km per hours for 18 ussually. I started at 8 AM and finished at 3:30 PM ( for the 2nd of september)
I'm sorry I can't put anyictures because it's a specific computer (the only one) in the roadhouse and the use is just for internet.

but in 2 days I will be at Cooper Pedy and I will be able to ost more pictures.

see you soon.

Mataranka to Alice Springs 2 ( or close to...)

a student of the mba institute in the middle of nowhere

I changed my mind....I will finish my trip with this motorbike....ah...I would like....

a break on an unsealed road....

camels.....

a huge bushfire...

a very windy time... I had to wait under a brigde with plenty of

weird animals... look the roof of the bridge... an old part of the stuart highway....some nice vista on this road

the devil's marbles

stay alive stay alive stay alive....

nice australian giving a coke to the thirsty bike rider.....

a bug with my camera and that is the result... I like this kind of bug

another one....

my 12th or 13th sunrise... I stopped counting it...

I woke up at 2 Am for riding before the wind starts to be too strong....

mataranka to Alice spring ( or close to...)

no flat tyre yet.... but I will have one about 250 km from there...

a memorial on the stuart highway

I don't care I don't need any fuel....

I will not look like this unfortunate cow....

a rest area....far away...

a little break on the way...I'm starting to be fed up of the cans of sardines....but It's essential.. and the night I ussually enjoy some delicious noddles....

for your information I'm now at Tennant Creek( 1000km from my starting point), so I have to update my blog and put the pictures of the last 4 days, I don't have time now to put more pictures because I have to buy my food and to fix my bike...in a word, I have to prepare myself to start again after a day off in this town. I should be in Alice spring in 5 days and I have have more time because I will take 2 days off.


thank you.

day off at Mataranka

an italian met at Mataranka and myself swimming in the river....with crocodiles....

so good the thermal pools.

natural spring...33 c....amazing.
that's what I call a day off...I spent all the day with people met in the thermal pools swimming and have a nice time. ( a couple of italian, another from Melbourne and 3 german girls)

on my way until Mataranka

now I was on my way to go to Katherine and thinking It will be a nice place to have a rest a day, I stopped first at pine creek and the day after I was able to ride almost 100 km to reach Katherine. I didn't really enjoy this town even if I toke a bed in a backpackers, I had a very bad night. I met few frenchies. I woke up with the idea of doing just a ride of 60 km, a kind of rest. but after a rest on the side of the road where I met bill and his dog, he offered me a cup of coffee and I felt better I decided to continue my travel. I arrived to Mataranka very late , around 10 pm with my right knee very painful. Tomorrow I will have a rest in the village.