Geraldton

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Hit our first rain in two months, the land around us has been mostly wild flowers and scrub the last few days, though today was wildflowers and wheat fields! Really brilliant. Beautiful little bays and an interesting history of early (pre-Cook) European ship wrecks along the coast during the spice trade era which we learned more about in the really excellent museum here in Geraldton. But I'm beginning to wonder about whether my shoulder will ever heal. Multiple daily pain killers for the last two months have allowed us to continue and I'm getting pretty good riding one handed despite occasional strong cross winds, but I'm sure what I"m doing is neither safe nor good for my shoulder, and we have been pushing our luck on this trip. So far we've had no accidents what so ever (touch wood), except for falling over several times in the sand before Alice Springs. For the first time we've been wondering whether Perth should be our final destination rather than Brisbane. We will have seen almost everything we wanted to see except for the Nullarbor plains and the Gormley sculptures out in a salt pan north of Kalgoorlie. But the sculptures we'll never see as they are 50 kms down a dirt road, and we still could see the Nullarbor by train . . . A really hard decision, as everything else seems to be going so well. . .

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Comments

[Tao]

Congratts
What a trip! Sounds like good options, look after yourself Ted! Incredible trip, fire riders

[jenny]

Whales
I know exacltly what you mean when you say "honest". We were at one of these places and by the time we looked around at the excited call of a tourist, the whale was gone. It made him feel silly and defensive. It's just the luck of the draw. For us it was enough to be in the ~vicinity~ of the majestic creatures and that made him feel better. We believed him.