Day 5 saw us lurking in Emerald at the Rotary Park, with the DFTD flag out. We had had it announced on 4HI, but ended up having a very steady morning – coffe, papers, and two visitors. One was Peter who we had met on the dragline at Callide, who saw the flag and stopped to say gday, and the other was a bloke on a poker run, who was less interested in drinking bourbons at the pub at 10am than the rest of the riders.
We packed up at lunch time and headed to my parents place west of Springsure. Though the road has a lot more bitumen we had a slightly nasty stretch of 30-40km to negotiate, a nice step up from the roads we had been on so far. We then parked up for the evening with my parents, and it started raining.
We packed up at lunch time and headed to my parents place west of Springsure. Though the road has a lot more bitumen we had a slightly nasty stretch of 30-40km to negotiate, a nice step up from the roads we had been on so far. We then parked up for the evening with my parents, and it started raining.
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Loading up after the mud
The next day it was still raining, and we debated waiting around, but in the end decided we should push on to Emerald. We ended up loading the Prado with the panniers, no need to make things harder with the extra weight, then set off onto the greasy road. Getting rid of the weight was a good idea, we would have dropped the bikes for sure with the extra load on, instead we just got filthy.
We then headed to Emerald, with the rain still coming down, and crashed out at Jolliffe’s place for the evening.
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