Cycling For a Reason
Cycling For a Reason
Hi Everybody,
Details and Analysis of my day 7 : http://connect.garmin.com/activity/19762457
Today was the smallest stage since the beginning. Only 130 km. I left at 5h28 and the temperature was 24 degrees. The sun should rise in 20 minutes. The quality of the road was not so good for my bike but anyway I must go ahead. I bicycled for 4h06 minutes and had done 130 km. The total journey was only 5 hours as we arrived at 11h15 in Wycliffe.
The stage was quite flat and I felt good that’s why I put the turbo. Nevertheless the bad news is about the temperature. At 7 am it was 28 degrees and at 9 am it was 34 degrees.
We took a break at 9h30 exactly after 100 km and 3 hours riding to see the Devils Marbles. Scattered far across a wide and shallow valley, these massive boulders of granite are an impressive site. The boulders are precariously balanced on top of one another in a seemingly impossible arrangement.
Surrounded by these enormous sacred boulders, you sense the peace and tranquility of the outback in the serene and special place...Over estimated 1640 million years a huge granite block criss-crossed with fault lines eroded into slabs roughly 3m to 7m square. The extreme desert temperature forced the expansion and contraction of the blocks and slabs flaked off, like the skin of an onion. Have a look in my Daily albums or click here.
After 45 min I restarted cycling to go to Wycliffe Well, our final destination. It was 10h18 and the temperature was almost 40 degrees...so early
The road was still flat but unfortunately for my butt was bad quality. My seat is quite hard and the road was not made for a kind of bicycle that I use. Anyway in my head, as I should ride for only 30 km and I tried to advance quick.
We arrived at 11h15 in Wycliffe Well...a strange place but quite fine. Why is it so strange ? Unearthly happenings abound at Wycliffe Well, 93 km north of Barrow Creek, where a spate of UFO sightings has been documented. Welcome to the UFO Centre of Australia.
See you maybe tomorrow, it will depend of UFO !!!
Welcome to UFO Centre of Australia. We are staying for one night here at Wycliffe Well.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Day 7 : Tennant Creek - Wycliffe - 130 km - 4h10 on the saddle