Perth to Adelaide

The bike is ready to go but the weather is wet and cold....finally the sun comes out and it is time to head off, departure coincide with the Albany Christmas pageant. I was going to ride directly to Esperance but Peter convince me to ride with his Ulysses group to Albany. Glad I went we had a great time. The Ulysses from Albany had invited members to join them to promote the 2010 AGM. They organised camping at the pistol club and a lovely BBQ, bfast for the riders. We rode at the back of the parade, the crowd was cheerfull and I enjoyed taking photos from the back of Pet's Valkory, more fun to be pillion and interacting with the crowd than riding my bike at low speed with an overheating engine. we did not have to wear a helmet for the parade, how lovely! the welcome we got is reassuring for the AGM, the population is behind it for sure.Unfortunately I have not been able to open the cd containing the pictures to include them on this site. hope to do it at a later stage.
The next morning Peter offered to escort me to Esperance. I am glad he came along, he is nice company and after beeing at his place for so many weeks, life was empty on my own. we rode together to Norseman; then I went East and Pet returned to Perth.
For the first 60km along the Nullarbor plain I did not see any vehicles or people...
Met a couple from Kalgoorlie on the way, the lady was in tears, she did not think it was going to be so hard to ride her yamaha cruiser, her legs were very sore. I tried to confort her. They were going all the way to Melbourne and Tassie on a very short time.I camped at the border village, camping very dirty and smelly but too late, cannot go back to Eucla as I carry fruit and got to go through fruit inspection....
the next day i wait at different spot for the cruising couple Steve and Tracey and lead most of the time to cover amaxi of kms. I leave them late afternoon at a motel and continue on to a camp ground at Wudinna,next to me Daniel from Perth has injured his knee as he lost his bike on the dirt at a parking bay. I gave him a tube of voltaren cream which helped to ease the pain through the night. we had some good storms but little rain. Glad I did not camped at Ceduna, the town flooded and roads were cut off. I was tired when I reached Port Augusta, bought some supplies and rode to the Flinders. Stopped at Wilmington caravan park and got stuck with 3 full days of rain. My good tent stayed dried and I was lucky to have access to a great camp kitchen, tv room. The owner took me in his car to the local shop and lent me books, magazines, gave carrots and free range eggs....paying only $10.00 a night.
On my way to Adelaide i stopped at the famous home made pie shop in a little town,pass Melrose, the owner, Patrick, is an Ulysse member, makes own jam from local fruit.
Not many camp grounds in the Adelaide Hills, overnighted at Mt Barkers, got a bit of grass between toilet block and caravan parks for $20.00 a night while a caravan power site cost only $25.00, campers are ripped off!!
Spent my first day looking for the place i used to live at Bel air, did not find it..but got lost onto a very narrow road with spectacular views to the city and corners down to 15km/h! rode through Meadows and Mylor...the roads are very bumpy with much more traffic than 30 years ago!!!