A road touring route in southern Western Australia, taking in quiet roads and a range of scenery. For fun, it passes through three towns starting with Q. The quiet roads means some long distances between supplies – there are a few gaps of 100 km between water, and it is typically 200 km between “large” […]
Day 1 We took the bus from East Perth station at 9am, changed at Bunbury and arrived at Northcliffe at 3:45pm (45 min late). Thankfully we had bus snacks as the first stop for food was at 2:15pm at Manjimup at a little cafe with only cake and drinks. It was quite surreal to realise […]
Our objectives for this adventure ride were to test our ability to be self sufficient for 2 days (no food or water resupply or electricity) with no cooking gear, plus to be mostly on gravel to avoid towns and traffic on a “long weekend”. And to get away! Day 1 We left home about 6:15 […]
“I’ve been thinking of doing this bikepacking trip up to New Norcia” Louise said, “are you interested?” This is how it started, with one person’s inspiration, and then organisation, to get the group of us together and on the road. We had a planning meeting and figured out important logistics like where to sleep and […]
