{"id":750,"date":"2011-05-07T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melvynyap.com\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:53:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T11:53:41","slug":"day-45-campfire-with-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melvynyap.com\/blog\/day-45-campfire-with-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 45: Campfire With A Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 29th, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Kingston SE to 42 Mile Crossing
\nDistance: 74km
\nTotal distance: 2207km<\/strong><\/p>\n

Left pretty late this morning at 10am! Probably because I knew I was only going to do a 70km+ journey today so I just took my time getting ready. By the time I woke up, the sun was already high in the sky but the wind is still very strong. My tent got quite warm in the morning. I recorded 24 degrees celcius on my thermometer, unusually warm for a morning in Autumn! Last night, I had the most dramatic night ever, my tent was nearly blown off in the middle of the night! I had to come out and redo the stakes a couple of times as it kept getting pulled out by the wind, until I decided to tie my tent fly onto my trike. But that didn\u2019t stopped the sound of my tent flapping the whole night.<\/p>\n

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Started my day with an artsy photo!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My campsite last night. The wind was blowing in this direction (from my camera to the tent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Who need stakes when you got a trike to hook your tent to?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This tasted soooo good! Hot pancakes with peanut butter (in between the layers and top) and honey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before leaving Kingston SE, I stopped by at a local supermarket for an iced chocolate milk drink. Hmmm, I seem to have developed a habit of having iced flavoured milk drink in the morning before my ride. To sum up my ride today, the 70km ride to the turn off to 42 Mile Crossing was almost entirely flat and with shoulder just wide enough for my trike. Apart from the headwind, it was not a bad weather for cycling. I get alternating sunshine and overcast. It was quite warm throughout the ride. A word of warning to any cyclist unfamiliar with this stretch. There is absolutely no facilities (shop, food, water, toilet) between Kingston SE and Salt Creek (where I’ll be passing tomorrow, about 20km further north of 42 Mile Crossing), and this is about 90km stretch.<\/p>\n

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A giant lobster at Kingston SE. Belongs to a seafood restaurant right behind that lobster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Weird sky. This pattern of clouds means I was getting sunshine on and off in a rhythymic fashion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once I turn off from the highway to 42 Mile Crossing, it was 3km of unsealed road into the campsite. Along this road, I took my trike to the Coorong lagoon to ride on the mostly dried up lagoon. The campsite was beautiful. It was clean and well-maintained. I particularly liked the rain water tanks that collected water from all the roofed structure there. Saw a couple of other vehicles camping there too. After pitching my tent, there was still about an hour of daylight. So I took the 1 hour return walk to the beach to have a look.<\/p>\n

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Entrance to 42 Mile Crossing. I like the signage in SA parks, clear and informative<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There were lots of potholes and bumps on the unsealed track into the campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coorong lagoon, which was huge! Stood here for a while to admire the beauty of emptiness \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yeah better pay up or you'll get punched by the roos!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Self-registration booth for camping permit, notice the water catchment on the roof that channel into a water tank behind?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the water tank, pretty neat eh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Non-flushing toilet. However, I was confused by the note<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Read the last point. From what I understand, if I haven't eaten my poo I should just throw it elsewhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The not so impressive beach. The beach was opened for 4WD access hence the vehicle tracks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upon returning to the campsite, Dennis, a next-door camper invited me for a cup of tea so we sat in front of a campfire he made and chatted for an hour or so. Dennis is a retired builder and has been travelling for 10 years within the country on his camper-4WD. We saw some kangaroos around the campsite and frigthened by big grasshoppers suddenly landed on our shirt. It started raining lightly later on, so with the help of Dennis, I moved my tent into the picnic area which was roofed. It\u2019s concrete floor but wasn’t so bad since between me and the floor there\u2019s my sleeping bag and foam mat.<\/p>\n

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A campfire with Dennis, campfire on a cold night is bloody awesome!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dennis boiling water for our billy tea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple of times, the kangaroos scared the shit out of me. I was in the tent and all of a sudden there\u2019s stomping sound outside my tent. At one point, I was eager to watch some nocturnals so I came out with my headlamp, scanning around the campsite, really hoping to see some wildlife. I saw something glittering, which made me think it was an animal\u2019s eye. Upon closer examination, I was shocked to find it\u2019s coming from a moderate sized spider! And the glitter came from its eyes.<\/p>\n

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The glitter I saw 10 metres away actually came from this spider's eye! Who would have thought?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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