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Friday: Leaving Tasmania was a little sad but I have another 4kkm to go so it was time. Toke the night ferry and arrived in Melbourne at 07:00 in the morning. Headed west for the famous Great Ocean Road. It's realy not bad and there are some quite impressing spots. Spend the night in Mt. Gambier, a little town near the VIC/SA border.
Saturday: What a day... Woke up in the jail. Well, was a hostel but a former jail and I slept in a real cell. There was a junkie in the kitchen dooing the most disgusting noises you can imagine, and that at 8:00 in the morning. Good luck it wasn't raining and 12C outside! Well, on the bike and clench the teeth... But the unexpected happend, after some 300km the weather changed and there was not a single cloud in sight. After nearly a month in cold and sometimes realy bad weather I'm back in the summer! The summer is called Southern Australia - state number 7 (I have'm all now!). Milage 10'400km. I'm in Adelaide now which seems to be a real quiet town, has a flair of a small rural city but has more than 1 mio inhabitants!
The bike is doing well so far unless that I sometimes think it will fall apart one day... there is every day something new to repair but good luck that's just business as usual and nothing was realy serious so far. But I'm afraid it will need a proper service and some serious rebuilding after coming back to Europe. Only 4kkm to go...
Ok, that's probably the last message before Perth which means for 1 to 3 weeks. I will head west on the Eyre Highway and cross the Nullarbor Plains in the next 1 to 2 weeks. That's back to the Outback and it's some 2000km from Port Augusta (SA) to Kalgoorlie (WA) (on a paved road) and there is nothing inbetween than some petrol stations, so I do not expect to find another inet facility. When arrived savely in Kalgoorlie I will decide wheter to go directly to Perth or to do some more of WA, the plan is to do some more but this will depend on conditions meeting there. I have to be in Perth by the 25th of November (to have some time to crate the bike) so there is some time left for spontaneous plans if nothing unexpected happens on the Eyre Highway. It's my journey home but good luck it's a long one ;-)
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The Great Ocean Road
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One of the Twelve Apostles
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Adelaide
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No 7 - All In!
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