Julie and I were supposed to be hiking the 5,000km Continental Divide Trail in the US in 2020, but COVID-19 derailed that plan. Instead, we will have an adventure in Australia, circumnavigating the country on our bikes, a distance of about 16,500km taking approximately five and a half months. We will use minor roads where possible and occasionally catch ferries across rivers and inlets to avoid busier inland routes. We will camp some of the time and stay in motels, hotels, etc, at others. There will be stretches of up to five days with no accommodation or resupply available, so we will need to be self-sufficient.

Round Australia Bike Ride - Day 041 - Burketown

Day:  041

Date: Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Start:  Burketown

Finish:  Burketown

Daily Kilometres:  0

Total Kilometres:  4339

Weather:  Cool early then warm and sunny

Accommodation:  Cabin

Nutrition:

  Breakfast:  Egg & bacon rolls

  Lunch:  Egg & lettuce roll, custard donut/Chicken salad roll, chocolate brownie

  Dinner:  Pizza, ice-creams

Aches:  Nothing significant

Highlight:  None really

Lowlight:  None really

Pictures: Click here

Map and Position: Click here for Google Map

Journal:

Not much happened today.  We were slow to get up after our late night and walked over to the town cafe for breakfast, which we ate at a table outside.

Then it was back to the cabin and some laundry, trip-planning and lazing around until it was lunchtime and another walk across the manicured town park to the same cafe for lunch.  It was quite warm by now, but very pleasant sitting in the shade outside the cafe watching the small town world go by (very slowly).

On our way back to the cabin we detoured via the town information centre and exhibits and then the post office, hoping to mail back home a few more things we don't need any more.  Alas, it is closed on Tuesday afternoon.  I returned to the cabin to do some more trip planning, while Julie walked down to see an old artesian bore that still brings to the surface scalding hot mineralised water, where it runs off and evaporates to leave a landscape of mineral deposits.

After more lazing around, we walked to the town cafe yet again to get dinner and had a welcome early night.

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