18 Apr 2025

 18 Apr 2025

Another wet morning, though it dried up fairly soon, and it started early with the neighbours leaving at 4 am and 6 am, so not a huge amount of sleep. it was a short day of about 6 hours driving today, or so I thought, but it seemed so much longer to do it. I didn't get into Ceduna until 5:30pm, 557 kilometres seems so much longer when you aren't doing 110 kilometres per hour.

Over all not a very adventurous day really, stopped for a couple of photos here and there and to get fuel, but that is about it. I didn't get much fuel, just topped it up twice as I had a jerry can in the boot of much better fuel from Perth as the engine now needs premium to run properly. 

I stopped at Nullarbor Roadhouse and goodness the flies were out of control, no matter what you did you were completely covered in the things. I then went further on and stopped at Yalata where there is an unmanned fuel stop, I didn't get fuel just needed a break. There were no flies at all, not one! Driving further on and stopping at Nundroo for a dring (51 kilometres from Yalata) and the flies were worse than the Nullarbor Roadhouse. Is there some sort of no go zone for flies at Yalata, if so they should extend it to the other two places too!

I have been surprised by the number of people riding bicycles across the country, no matter where I have been driving there is always a bicycle or two to pass. Maybe everything is a scale, people think I am mad driving a Morris Minor across the country and I get to think these people are mad riding bicycles. I was passed by and passed going the other way a lot of motorcycles todays too, which was a first for the trip so far.  

Have made a discovery as well. I was wondering why the passenger front door was suddenly scraping the leading edge on the back of the front guard again (it has done it before), but it seems like someone, somewhere has actually hit the car and slightly bent the bumper and the front guard, enough to push the alignment out and now the back of the guard is bent, so will keep hitting the front door. Unfortunately I am going to have to put a bolt back in the gap between the guard and the sill to keep them apart.