We reached Gundy at 1030 and Trudy found us after her and Dan were up at 3am on sat morning in order to catch the bus which arrived in Gundy just after 10am.
Trudy and Dan were all kitted up in their Forget Me Not gear and by 12pm we were all ready for one final picture before the day began for real!
After 57km of flat roads we arrived at our campsite of Yelarbon for the night! With a quick camp set up we reluctantly hit the road again straight into a 30knot headwind to make our mileage up to 100km for the day!
Last night was a combination of Les snoring, boys farting and Dan and Trudy moaning in the tent next to us (don't know what was going on there) The cold night progressively turned in a freezing night literally with 0 degrees registering INSIDE the tent. As we opened up the tent zip in the morning everything was frozen and very icy! It was one frosty frost!
DAY 3 YELARBON TO TEXAS by Clarencia
'The stars at night are big & bright, deep in the heart of Texas' .. Well here we are in Texas and the adage is true for both the Texan towns, though with a population of only 900,the wintery stars outshine the handful of street lights in this Auzzie outback town. This town flourished in the early depression years by exporting weekly 3 tonnes of rabbit meat to England. A nice way to clean up excess rabbits. Nowdays if you are found with a rabbit in this shire, it's a $30,000 on the spot fine!
Todays century haul is the last of the flatfish days before heading into the mountains, and being flat .. The wind again had it's way with us. Another day of hard head and cross winds left us all with well wind burnt eyes & faces! Some niggling injuries starting to appear from the long hours in the saddle .. And some nasty gaseous exhaust emissions from everyone in the change of foods and eating while hammering into the wind. Too bad that wind didn't also have a thrust component!
Riding today was tricky in also knowing what to wear, starting off in 6-7deg temps and ending in a balmy 23deg. We had lunch at a Japanese owned feed lot .. Massive complex, so massive we did not know which trough to feed from!
So after 300km's, fatigue is definitely starting to set into the legs, walking uphill or steps becomes a little chore. Tomorrow we're expecting a max of 13deg, and mostly uphill for the day. On paper it looks to be one of the harder days, though the wind should be behind us for a welcome change.
Namaste from Lars, Les, Clarence, Dan and Trudy
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