Lake King to Ravensthorpe

I was awake very early, as planned, about 4:45. I went to the very good camp kitchen, made tea for now and the blue bottle for later, and had the third boiled egg for breakfast. 

I packed up and pulled out at about 6:15, with 70k to get to Ravensthorpe. There was a headwind, but not too strong, and in the early morning, no flies and very few cars. The road had less hills than I've been used to, so I made pretty good progress. 

I stopped for a morning tea break at 35k, about 20 minutes I suppose, and ate another egg, and the rest of the tomatoes. Perhaps I shouldn't have had the break, because at 15k to go, the wind strengthened, making the going seemingly twice as hard. 

I stopped at the Overshot Hill rest area and had another cup of tea, after which things seemed to get a bit easier, and I got into Ravensthorpe at about 1:15.

I got to Liz's pretty soon after that, travelling east I only had a crosswind thank goodness. We had a. Nice catch up, a beer, a vodka and tonic, very nice to be resting at last.

One for Dan, who thinks I should be in my pictures!

Kids and kids

Two pony tails...

There were still a lot of wildflowers on the roadside