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18 June, 2010
6:13 PM | 
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Touring Steve |
Oodnadatta to Kulgera
Left Oodnadatta with cloudy weather.
Travelled about 20km and then turned off toward Hamilton Station.
This is a leser road to the Oodnadatta Track so maintenannce was of a minimal nature after recent rains. The road had parts that were in reasonable , good , poor and very poor condition. We soon realised more caution was required than previous days.
The scenary varied significantly between stark open desert surrounds to undulating dune areasand others with creek & creek bed crossings.
We alson passed a billabong.
The road was surprisingly twisty and the road surfaces varied from hard rock to soft sand.
It was an interesting and challenging ride which saw us both make a few riding errors none of which caused any problems.
The road changed dramatically at the Mt Dare / New Crown Station turnoff where we headed to New Crown to cross to the Finke road.
This was an old station road with very very little maintenance and for most of the way was just two wheel ruts.
I was caught off guard by a heavily rutted creek section which had the bike wildly sideways in the air much to Luke's amusement.
Note to self - take it easy....
This was slow going until we hit the Finke rode. This was a fast rode with patches of deep sand.
As there were no sharp corners and we could maintain a good pace the sand was no problem. Deeper sand taken slowly can be heavy going and is helped by keeping your weight back and using moderate speed.
At Finke we had a quick break and discussed navigation.
The GPS won the discussion, we had not noticed the turnoff to Kulgeraback a few hundred metres back up the road.
We turned to Kulgera and on the way passed a couple of other riders struggling in the sandy sections.
They later complemented us on our riding style. We passed them 100km from Kulgera, had time to book in have a feed and two beers before they arrived!!!!
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