Day: 019
Date: Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Summary: Rest day.
Start: Hughenden
Finish: Hughenden
Daily Kilometres: 0
Total Kilometres: 2518
Weather: Mild early but warm to hot and sunny for the rest of the day with north-east wind.
Accommodation: Motel in Hughenden , Queensland .
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Pastries
Lunch: Quiche and salad
Dinner: Pasta and a milkshake for dinner.
Encounters: None in particular, but the locals were all very friendly.
Highlights: Spending a day wandering around with nothing much to do.
Lowlights: Getting a social phone call from Kev Andrews at 6:00am on the one day on the trip that I had planned to sleep in!
Journal:
Most of the day was spent wandering around the central part of Hughenden soaking up the atmosphere of a remote outback town and attending to a few chores. Unfortunately, one of the chores turned out to be a load of hand-washing since there is no Laundromat in town. However, apart from that I found an internet centre providing cheap broadband access and the necessary food stores. One of the pubs was highly recommended by the locals and I ended up eating both lunch and dinner there on their very pleasant verandah opening on to the sleepy main street.
The day was quite hot and a strong north-east wind was blowing in the morning which made me glad I was not riding although, no doubt, the weather will be the same again tomorrow.
I bought a 2.4 litre fruit juice in a container I will fill with water to see me through the next few days. By my calculation, I will see only one roadhouse, and no other water, shops, accommodation, etc., in the next three days. I didn’t sleep well last night and I’ve had a bit of a headache most of the day, possibly because I was a bit dehydrated yesterday. I’ll make sure I get a good sleep tonight rather than make a pre-dawn start.
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