Day 6
Tuesday 19th Feb
Robe to Policemans Point.
145kms
Once again we hardly had enough sleep. I crawled out of the tent to find Harv not looking to flash. He wasn’t feeling 100% and almost jumped on a bus to Adelaide. We thought it would be a better idea to get to Adelaide and try sort out his injury rather than keep going and possibly make it worse. The bus was 5 mins away and he didn’t make it. So the tents and all the gear got loaded back on the bikes and off to the bakery for some breakfast.
It was a late start riding to the the day, but we actually had the wind in our favour. The terrain was changing quite a bit to some sand flats and salt lakes, heading into the Coorong Region.
We stopped in Kingston for a little while near the pier, and had some lunch, and a bit of a nap on the park bench there. It was set to be a long ride into the night.
It 1am and the temperature had dropped. We were both freezing cold and tired, so we stoped at a telephone booth in Salt Creek to put some Thermals, Arm Warmers, Leg Warmers, and Jackets on, as well as hop into a few sangas. There was no where to stay in Salt Creek so we kept riding.
After about another hour and half, the struggle was intense to keep our eyes open. It was so cold, windy and it was time for bed. A sandy spot on the side of the road looked like the perfect place to set up the tents. Soon we realised the the ground wasn’t so sandy. It was rock hard and none of the tent pegs would go in the ground. We had to used the bikes as weight, and ocky straps to tie the weight to the tent to stop them from blowing away in the wind. Not really the sort of thing you want to be thinking about in this state of sleepyness.
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